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Need picture [s] of a BN7 or BT7 Servo installation

RDKeysor

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After purchasing my BN7 a year ago, I immediately decided that I needed a brake servo. These were not offered on the MK1. I bought the Victoria British servo unit with the installation kit and the pretty thorough instructions, but I would like a picture of a servo installation on a similar car. In retrospect, I may have been a bit hasty in buying this unit, as I found part of my issue with the car's brakes was the close proximity of the brake and accelerator pedals. These were just 2" apart, a good deal closer than the pedals on several BJ8s owned by our club members. I have now repositioned the pedals on the arms, giving me plenty of space between them (well, a bit tight to the left of the clutch), and this has increased my satisfaction with the car's fully rebuilt brakes. But I still have the servo and want to install it, first wanting to properly position the unit under the rf wing before making the connections. Any experience with this out there?
 

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After purchasing my BN7 a year ago, I immediately decided that I needed a brake servo. These were not offered on the MK1. I bought the Victoria British servo unit with the installation kit and the pretty thorough instructions, but I would like a picture of a servo installation on a similar car. In retrospect, I may have been a bit hasty in buying this unit, as I found part of my issue with the car's brakes was the close proximity of the brake and accelerator pedals. These were just 2" apart, a good deal closer than the pedals on several BJ8s owned by our club members. I have now repositioned the pedals on the arms, giving me plenty of space between them (well, a bit tight to the left of the clutch), and this has increased my satisfaction with the car's fully rebuilt brakes. But I still have the servo and want to install it, first wanting to properly position the unit under the rf wing before making the connections. Any experience with this out there?

Rich Berman's photo gallery:
https://plus.google.com/photos/110087349657726745747/albums/5528813397849858337

You've got a lot of scrolling ahead of you, but it's there.
 

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Here is a picture of the one I did. I'm going to be removing it to put on a tandem booster.
John booster2.jpgbooster.jpg
 
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Both of these responses were right on the money, with Steve's offering of Rich Berman's photo gallery being the largest and best compilation of color photos taken of a ('57) Healey restoration (I don't know where the tri-carbs came from) that I have ever seen. Berman took photos of everything from the overall chassis through detailed pictures of little features like tappets and the internal wiper mechanism, even replacing the internal soft parts. What a feast. Then jcsb came through with an installation photo of the very servo I have, this one showing the positioning of the major bracket supporting the servo. This was a view I didn't get in the Berman collection, and it shows the critical starting point for the installation.
 
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