<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Harold<div><br></div><div>I did likewise, but this method kind of negates the pull-the-carpet-when-it-gets-wet theorem. I agree with John,though, that if one did cut the carpet the slivers of carpet left would flop around and soon tear off. <br><br><div dir="ltr">Bob England</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Oct 18, 2019, at 10:07 PM, John Spaur <jmsdarch@sbcglobal.net> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 15 (filtered medium)"><!--[if !mso]><style>v\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);}
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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">I installed mine on top of the carpet which I believe to be correct. If you don’t do it that way you will end up with a little sliver of carpet forward and aft of the belt attachment that will flop around.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">John<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">’62 BT7<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Healeys [mailto:healeys-bounces@autox.team.net] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Harold Manifold<br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, October 18, 2019 5:23 PM<br><b>To:</b> 'Healey List' <healeys@autox.team.net><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Healeys] seat installation<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:blue">Another seat question. By BT7 did not have seat belts when originally built. I have purchased the hardware but don't know if the door side seat belt anchor is on top of the carpet or if the carpet trimmed around the anchor bracket? Picture of bracket is attached.</span><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:blue">Thanks ... Harold</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><hr size="2" width="100%" align="center"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"> Healeys [<a href="mailto:healeys-bounces@autox.team.net">mailto:healeys-bounces@autox.team.net</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>i erbs<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, October 17, 2019 1:25 PM<br><b>To:</b> Len and/or Marge Hartnett<br><b>Cc:</b> AH Mail List<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Healeys] seat installation</span><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class="MsoNormal">Len, <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class="MsoNormal">There should be both a wood strip and a metal plate. I decided to glue my carpet to my sound/heat material feeling it would shield against wet carpets rusting my floorboards and trans tunnel . I could not get the snaps to pull the carpet down smoothly and it just looked terrible. The factory would have cut the carpet around the metal and wood, so you could remove your carpet to dry it out when it got wet. Much cheaper than actually working to keep the cars from leaking in the rain.\:)<br clear="all"><o:p></o:p></p><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Ira Erbs <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class="MsoNormal">Portland,OR<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> _______ _______<br> (______ \____1959 BN4____/ _______)<br> (_________________________)<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> BT7 engine and disk brakes<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">1967 MGB <img border="0" id="_x0000_i1026" src="http://www.britishcarspecialists.com/assets/images/MG_emblem.jpg" alt="MG" data-unique-identifier=""><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333">A racing car is an animal with a thousand adjustments. Mario Andretti</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Please excuse random auto corrects and misspelled words<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div><div id="DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2"><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><table class="MsoNormalTable" border="1" cellpadding="0" style="border:none;border-top:solid #D3D4DE 1.0pt"><tbody><tr><td width="58" style="width:41.25pt;border:none;padding:9.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt"><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="46" height="29" id="_x0000_i1027" src="https://ipmcdn.avast.com/images/icons/icon-envelope-tick-green-avg-v1.png" data-unique-identifier=""></span></a><o:p></o:p></p></td><td width="473" style="width:352.5pt;border:none;padding:9.0pt .75pt .75pt .75pt"><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#41424E">Virus-free. <a href="http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail" target="_blank"><span style="color:#4453EA">www.avg.com</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></div><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal">On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 12:35 PM Len and/or Marge Hartnett <<a href="mailto:thehartnetts@earthlink.net">thehartnetts@earthlink.net</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style="border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in"><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA"> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA">Bob and Brad: Curious about this thread, I took a look at my seat installation. Without removing the seat, wood, and alleged metal plate, I can say that my assembly sits ON the carpet. The carpet and seat installation was done quite a while ago. I may have referenced the Moss video but can't remember. However, as a novice doing this for the first time, I would have used the "remove/replace in reverse order" system implying that that was how the original seat was installed. I can not see if there is a metal plate in there but I do not see a picture or listing of such a plate in the Moss catalog, Seat Frames, Foams, Fittings..<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA"> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA">(The Other) Len<br>Fairfield, CA, USA<br>1967 AH 3000 MkIII, HBJ8L39031<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA"> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><blockquote style="border:none;border-left:solid black 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt;margin-left:3.75pt;margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:5.0pt"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">----- Original Message ----- <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:#E4E4E4"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> <a href="mailto:engl@accesscomm.ca" target="_blank" title="engl@accesscomm.ca">Bob England</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">To:</span></b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> <a href="mailto:bradh904@gmail.com" target="_blank" title="bradh904@gmail.com">bradh904@gmail.com</a> ; <a href="mailto:Healeys@autox.team.net" target="_blank" title="Healeys@autox.team.net">Healeys@autox.team.net</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Sent:</span></b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> Thursday, October 17, 2019 9:34 AM<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Subject:</span></b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> Re: [Healeys] seat installation<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA"><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Brad</span><span lang="EN-CA"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-CA"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">The carpet is cut to accommodate the seat slides.</span><span lang="EN-CA"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-CA"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">The seat slides sit on a piece of wood packing, which sits on a metal strip, which sits on the floor sheet metal.</span><span lang="EN-CA"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-CA"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">I can send photos if you like.</span><span lang="EN-CA"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-CA"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">BobE</span><span lang="EN-CA"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">’65 BJ8</span><span lang="EN-CA"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-CA"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"> Healeys [mailto:<a href="mailto:healeys-bounces@autox.team.net" target="_blank">healeys-bounces@autox.team.net</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Dave Phillips<br><b>Sent:</b> October 17, 2019 9:04 AM<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:Healeys@autox.team.net" target="_blank">Healeys@autox.team.net</a><br><b>Subject:</b> [Healeys] seat installation</span><span lang="EN-CA"><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-CA"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-CA">I am about to install my newly done seats over my new carpet and have a question. 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