Front Seat Bases and Door Seals -- BJ7 -- Advice

[BG 62AH]

Guys, I really need a little advice on mounting my front seats, and some help with door seals.

On the seat frames, I am ready to install the carpet into the car. I am confused on the the order to install the steel strip and the wood spacer (that go under the seat runners), and if these items are installed on top of the carpet, or cut out recesses in the carpet.

With the door seals, I've seen some cars where the door seals run up the inside the B pillar, and then are capped at the top of the door opening. On other cars, I have seen the door seal material continue past the top of the door frame and then continue to run along the top of the rear inside panel (my car is a BJ7, so it has the recess for the folding top). I am unclear on which is correct.

I would really appreciate any thoughts or advice or pictures. Thank you very much for your help.

Bill

 

[DerekJ]

The carpet has recesses cut out to go around the bases. You should always be able to easily remove your carpets because they are going to get wet.

 

[British_Recovery]

The door seal should run up and onto the panel covering the top recess where the springs are. It should end with part # 240-530 "CLIP-door seal end" in the Moss Motors catalog.
Bob

 

[vette]

Bill, I agree completely with DerekJ and Bob. I just wanted to add that I believe the best source for the door seals is McGreagor in Canada. His are the exact copy of originals and of unquestionable quality. I originally tried to fit other products from other sources and had unbelievable problems. Finally threw everything out and bought everything from McGreagor. My car is far from original but I would have run the furflex over the top edge of the inner panel if i knew it was the correct way at the time. But I cut it too short before I found out. My aluminum finisher panels were bent up, tore up, and painted black when I got the car. So I hammered them straight, stripped and sanded the paint, then clear coated them to try to make them do.

 

[RAC68]

Hi Bill,

As I understand and Derek stated, the rugs should be easily removable to allow any penetrating rain saturation to be dried outside of the car. I often wondered, and would appreciate knowing, why English cars of the era (created in a moist climate) were less weather protected then Italian cars (manufactured in a sunny climate).

The original rear rugs and pads (per the picture below) were slotted to allow them to extend under the seats and surround the runner. The packing wood and metal strips were installed to raise the seat runners off the metal floor to allow room for the rugs. Keep in mind that the slots are cut into the rear floor rugs and the front floor rugs terminate at the front of the seats. Snaps are installed on the back of the rugs with receivers installed into the metal floor and through the pads. The snaps keep the rugs in place and allow the rugs to be removed. Removal of the snap receivers is necessary to remove the floor rug padding, however, the amount of moisture penetrating the cabin was expected to be small enough to be held by the rug (a miscalculation in my opinion and experience).


Ray(64BJ8P1)

 

[andrea]

https://picasaweb.google.com/112770819864514987162/DropBox#5637657699626680386
In this Google album you can find a lot of photos that can help in this phase- come on!

 

[BG 62AH]

I really appreciate all of this information, the pictures are great. Thank you all so much