[Mgs] [MG-MGB] latch problem

[Paul Hunt]

Hasn't the reddish one lost its bolt-through plate?  That should be welded 
to the loop.  It's the distance from those holes to the end of the loop that 
is important, not from the ends of the loop.  Only one 'striker' (the 
official name of that part) is shown for all years in the Parts Catalogue as 
well.  Parts Catalogue pictures can be misleading as to exact shape, it 
could well be a generic drawing when there are detail differences in the 
actual part for different models.  Having said that on my 75 GT it is 
flat-topped, a smidgen under 2.5" from the bottom of the plate to the top of 
the loop.  It's also curved in the other orientation, as if to follow the 
curve of the boot surround (an unnecessary nicety, I would have thought). 
It's not a problem with the seal being too thick, is it?

For the sake of 6-8mm I would have thought you could put an angle in the 
flat top of the orange part, like there is in the red one, maybe filing the 
holes out a bit more as well.

PaulH.

----- Original Message ----- 
>I have run into a bit of a mystery with the boot lid on my 64B
> restoration project - I haven't been able to get it to latch. I removed
> the locking mechanism to better see where the problem is and I can see
> that the latch doesn't reach high enough to even get to the latching
> mechanism.