[Healeys] 4 seater rear seat pans

[Randy Dickson]

Andy,
I had the same problem on my BJ7.  I got a new seat surround (the horizontal
part from between the wheel arches where the seat pans fit) from AH Spares a
few years back.  The steel seat pans would not fit in it.  I had to grind a
substantial amount of metal away from the pan surround, and in essence, make
the interior diameter of the seat pan surround larger.  The seat pans fit
much better, but still not right.  More bending, grinding, shaping and
padding will be in order.

Randy
Healey Archaeologist
63 BJ7
60 BT7
66 Cobra replica
06 Mini Cooper S



-----Original Message-----
From: healeys-bounces at autox.team.net [mailto:healeys-bounces at autox.team.net]
On Behalf Of Rich C
Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2009 11:49 AM
To: andy pole; healeys at autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [Healeys] 4 seater rear seat pans

Andy,

Nothing on a BJ8 fits straight away! <grin>
As I recall you have new metal in the rear pan surround area? When we are 
replacing metal here we use an old pair of original seat pans to use as 
indicators to make sure the hole perimeter metal is ground away sufficiently

to allow the pans to fully seat into the openings.
In addition, the orginals seldom had a good all around seal into the 
openings, usually due to differences in the contour of the curve down to the

front. The factory usually had all sorts of tricks they used to build up the

surface of the vinyl to meet that of the seat pan flange, from extra foam to

stuffing extra layers of scrap carpet to bring the surrounding vinyl up to 
the seat flange.

Rich Chrysler

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "andy pole" <ampole at hotmail.com>
To: <healeys at autox.team.net>
Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2009 12:34 PM
Subject: [Healeys] 4 seater rear seat pans


> Guys
> Just searched the archives with no joy, I have just drilled the holes in 
> the
> rear seat surround to fit the rear seat pans (new surround and pans) and 
> the
> pan will stop about 1" from meeting the surround, looking from underneath 
> the
> dished part of the pan is catching on the surround. I have measured both 
> and
> it does indeed look like the dished part is too wide for the hole.
>
> I tried an old pan and its the same. I can only see two ways out either; 
> file
> the edge of the surround, or bend the edge (the lower recessed part that 
> takes
> the seal) downwards. I do not really want to do either to a newly painted
> chassis. I take it non-one else has this problem and the pans fit straight
> away? I did grind the studs of the old pan and it still will not drop into

> the
> hole.
>
> Anyone want a bj8? Any thoughts.
> thanks Andy