if your lever is toward the door, and they lide freely and don't pop
off the tracks, you installed everything OK.
they just don't slide that far forward. both of my GT's will slide
forward with the tunnel being the limiting factor.
Paul Tegler
Twin 73' MGB GTs YB and OB
YB born 8/72 (Primrose Yellow) Yellow BGT
OB born 1/73 (Blaze Red) Orange BGT
email: wizardz@maxinter.net
http://www.amdyne.net/~ptegler/mgmain.htm
-----Original Message-----
From: Lonn Howard <hoops@owt.com>
To: MGs <mgs@autox.team.net>
Date: Friday, April 23, 1999 1:10 PM
Subject: 70 BGT seat installation question
Hi all,
Well, I put the seats in after a compete headliner to carpet pad
restoration and everything in between. Now the drivers seat slides
forward to the point where the front corner comes up against the trans
tunnel and stops. This keeps the seat from sliding forward far enough
to accomodate my 5'4" tall wife. I suspect that the seats are installed
incorrectly, even though I put everything back the way it came out.
Keep in mind that I have never before looked at the seat setup in an
MGB, let alone sat in one until yesterday. Which holes should the
slider rails be bolted down through? Which side of the seat bottom
should the bigger cut-away face, towards the door or the trans tunnel?
Do the seatback adjusters go towards the doors or the middle?
I may have everything bass-ackwards, in which case Denise would be
correct in her prediction.
She says,
>snip
>I don't believe that a Triumph person can restore an MG. Remember the
pilot
>episode of Star Trek, where the aliens with big heads found a mangled
human
>female in a space ship and put her back together wrong because they'd
never seen
>one before.
>snip
My intentions are good even if my execution is faulty. And I don't want
to go to my first MG meet and have people ask me why my seats are
installed all goofy. Can't find any good pictures or instructions in
Bentley or Haynes so I'm once again at the mercy of the list.
Thanks,
Lonn Howard
'70 TR6 -mine
'71 TR6 -in my garage
'70 MGB GT -ours
'89 Saab Turbo Convertible -hers
"We are but temporary custodians with an obligation of preservation."
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