[TR] TR3A Seat Rails

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I don't know about TR3's , but the TR6 had a metal spacer between the seat rails and the carpet to help keep them out of water that gets in the compartment.
I imagine the TR3 had something similar when new.

Al
www.triumphowners.com/624 

---- terryrs at comcast.net wrote: 
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> When I rebuilt the car, I sourced two pair of used seat rails that had already been painted, installed them, and have driven on them for several years now.  Pulling up the seats and carpet this winter (oh, a garage!), I found they were already filming with rust. 
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> I've removed them, electric bench-brushed them, and have painted them again, this time with POR-15.  
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> Question:  what's the thought about taking a piece of bicycle inner tube and separating the seat rail from the floor pan.  The POR-15 ought to do it for the rails, but I haven't thus treated the floor pans. 
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> Terry Smith, '59 Tr3A 
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> New Hampshire