You can buy the snaps, both male and female parts, for less than a buck, from
many, many sources. Check with a hardware store first.
Irv Korey wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Martin Gonzales <mxgo@ix.netcom.com>
> To: triumphs <triumphs@autox.team.net>
> Date: Friday, March 10, 2000 6:28 PM
> Subject: TR6 - Carpet over Tranny Cover
>
> >
> >I am putting in a new carpet in my TR6 and would appreciate suggestions as
> >putting in the new carpet over the transmission and drive shaft covers.
> How
> >do you attach the carpet to the covers, without the carpet bunching up and
> >so that it is removable at some future date?
>
> If you have the original cardboard driveshaft cover, there are large, male
> snaps on it that the original carpet snapped onto. The female snaps are
> typically not included with the replacement carpet sets. The same goes for
> the original cardboard trans cover. I still have the original driveshaft
> cover, and when I replaced my trans cover with a fiberglass replacement
> (this was before the "space age plastic" covers came onto the market), I
> removed the snaps from the old trans cover and re-installed them in the new
> cover.
>
> Irv Korey
> 74 TR6 CF22767U
> TR4A CT52499 VSCDA Group 2 #58
> Highland Park, IL
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