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I've received the new set of carpets for the Herald from Newtons and started on what I thought would be an afternoon project installing them. I found Newton's to be easy to deal with, excellent product, shipped within their estimated time frame, (the make the carpets to order), although not especially cheap.
The carpets that the PO had installed by a “professional” had been made up from pieces, I counted at least twenty, that were glued in. Replacement was necessary because there was no access to the shift lever and transmission without literally tearing the carpets apart and the shift bushings need replacement. But it was not only the carpets, they glued the underlay insulation material too and used some of the most tenacious glue I've seen. I've got most of it out but a very slow process and I used some nasty solvent (MEK). It will have to stay on the new plastic tranny tunnel since the plastic does not like the MEK. It took all of the first afternoon to get the old carpets and insulation out. Now I find that the new tunnel is glued in too.
They also plastered carpets and insulation over the floor mounted accelerator pedal. Took some time to get the pedal dug out and rebuilt so another afternoon gone. Anybody know if the pedal bracket goes on top of the rug or on the floor with the carpet cut around it?
I had ordered some hardware, cage nuts and such, from Canley Classics. It turns out that the parts Canley sent were standard cage nuts, readily available in the US without the cost and hassle of getting them from England. They work OK but not exactly original. The black one is the one I took out of the back, the shiny one Canleys and the square “cabinet” nut in the front. The front one had just a regular nut underneath. (The rear one has to be a cage nut as it is in a raised plinth that does not go through the floor, the front just a square hole.)
At any rate, back at it this afternoon. I'll post a pic of the new carpets if I ever get them in.
Tom
The carpets that the PO had installed by a “professional” had been made up from pieces, I counted at least twenty, that were glued in. Replacement was necessary because there was no access to the shift lever and transmission without literally tearing the carpets apart and the shift bushings need replacement. But it was not only the carpets, they glued the underlay insulation material too and used some of the most tenacious glue I've seen. I've got most of it out but a very slow process and I used some nasty solvent (MEK). It will have to stay on the new plastic tranny tunnel since the plastic does not like the MEK. It took all of the first afternoon to get the old carpets and insulation out. Now I find that the new tunnel is glued in too.
They also plastered carpets and insulation over the floor mounted accelerator pedal. Took some time to get the pedal dug out and rebuilt so another afternoon gone. Anybody know if the pedal bracket goes on top of the rug or on the floor with the carpet cut around it?
I had ordered some hardware, cage nuts and such, from Canley Classics. It turns out that the parts Canley sent were standard cage nuts, readily available in the US without the cost and hassle of getting them from England. They work OK but not exactly original. The black one is the one I took out of the back, the shiny one Canleys and the square “cabinet” nut in the front. The front one had just a regular nut underneath. (The rear one has to be a cage nut as it is in a raised plinth that does not go through the floor, the front just a square hole.)
At any rate, back at it this afternoon. I'll post a pic of the new carpets if I ever get them in.
Tom