Good afternoon gentlemen,
Whenever I am fitting carpets to ANY vehicle, where the carpet joins into
another piece of carpet prior to fitting I spray paint with an aerosol in
the carpet colour enough paint directly onto the metal to "hide" the join
where the two pieces of carpet do not quite meet, unfortunately this seems
to be quite frequently.
If you have say a red bodied Healey with black carpets if two pieces of
carpet do not quite meet ,the red underneath looks horrible, but if you
spray paint in black the same colour as the carpets then this tends to hide
this unfortunate situation.
Hope this helps.
Regards.
David.
www.bighealey.ltd.uk
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brett Bonner" <bbbonner@fedex.com>
To: <healeys@autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2005 2:47 PM
Subject: How to fit transmission tunnel extension?
> I am recarpeting my 59 BN6. Unfortunately, the restoration guide will not
be
> here until tomorrow. I have looked at Rich Chryslers excellent notes on
> Jim's website. I am using the Moss Motors kit. Rich talks about the
> "Carpet to Carpet" seal. However, I think I have screwed up.
>
> This is what I have done. The carpet in the vertical footwell runs to the
> edge of the firewall (per Rich). I wrapped the carpet around the edge of
> the transmission tunnel extension (it seems this is right for the Carpet
to
> Carpet Seal Rich describes.
>
> It appears I have to fold out the metal edges of the transmission tunnel
to
> make it fit above the carpet on the edge of the firewall (which I have
> done). You then have a carpeted raised area running up and down the side
of
> the firewall from the transmission tunnel. This doesn't seem to be
correct
> (the metal extension fit the firewall pretty good before I bent it out for
> clearance). A cross section looking down the vertical footwell would be:
>
> cpf
> CCCcpf
> CECcpf
> CECcpf
> CEC
> CE
> CE
>
>
> Where anything in caps is on the extension (E), anything in lower case is
on
> the firewall (f), C is carpet, P and is pad.
>
>
>
> Another way to do it would be something like where the extension and the
> firewall metal would touch.
>
>
> cpf
> cpf
> cpf
> cf
> cf
> cf
> CEF
> CEF
> CEF
> CE
> CE
>
> But this would require cutting back the pad and would be hard to align the
> carpeting on a cut.
>
> What am I supposed to do?
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