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MGB Floor pans '71 MGB

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IF you have time I have a few MGb cars in my pictures on my website Britishautobody.com go to the Facebook link and look at my picture albums. I just installed a drivers floor pan on a MGB GT and installed a pan on a ragtop MGB ,shows the placement of the brace supports. I would type more but I am on my way ou the door. If you have any questions feel free to email me at Vern@Britishautobody.com

Cheers!
 
This is the last one we did. Cut at the inside of the 1" lip around the edges and it has a lot of rigidity.
 
Nice to see someone gave you a hand
 
'twas!!!
 
Well, the best laid plans and all of that...the washing machine broke so money and time went to that instead of ordering floor pans. We'll order this week. Is it worth the extra cost to get the "Heritage" pans?

New subject while we wait...how do you get the rings/bezels off of the instruments? The glass is filthy on the inside. Round ones on tach and speedo turn off but what about the others? Also, how do the instrument lights unplug so you can change/replace bulbs? Thanks.

Hope everyone wil have a great Christmas if that's what you celebrate.
 
I get Heritage body panels but floors, nah, I go for the cheap ones....
 
Thanks...that what I wanted to do but hoped to not screw up by being "cheap".
 
Now, by getting the cheaper ones, you'll have to measure drill, & weld captured nuts on the underside for your seats.....they don't come already installed.
 
Cross braces should be installed like this to prevent the car folding in half when you cut out the floors and rockers.
 

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Then just cut away and fit the new panels. You may have to make up some intermediate pieces where gaps between the new and old metal meet up. Not very hard, just time consuming. I have found that once you tear into the floors, it doesn't matter if they were just a little bad or very bad, it's the same amount of work to fix them the right way. These were overlapped and seem welded on both overlapped edges.
 

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Thanks...and Tony, I figured I'd have to weld on nuts, etc. with the cheap pans. Any suggestions on getting the instrument bezels and glass out?
 
Vern...I checked out your website and Facebook pages. Thanks!!
 
Remove the entire dash - it's easier on a workbench.
 
Unless it's really necessary, it sure seems like overkill and a lot of work to remove the dash just to clean the glass in the instruments! Can't you just pop the bezels off somehow?

Also, someone mentioned that Moss usually has a big sale after the first of the year. Does anyone know for sure? Matbe I should wait a week more before ordering floor pans :smile:.

Have a great Christmas.
 
VB has a big sale in the month of January. Assuming the instruments are the same as Midgets, the bezel rotates off - not like threaded but with tabs (2 or 3) that fit in slots and are then tightened. I suppose you could get them off in situ but they would be a brute to get back on without being able to push from the back.

On thing you might do (not sure how easily the driver's seat comes out in a B but, if you can get under the dash and if you get a MOWOG for Christmas, you might be able to loosen them enough to get them just 1/2 an inch or so forward.

that being said, why would the insides be dirty? they should be pretty much sealed no?
 
They SHOULD be sealed but the interior rubber gaskets are dried out and broken junk. We have the seat out and can reach the backs so had no real problem turning the tach and speedo bezels off. The fuel and temp gauges don't want to turn...should they also? The oil pressure gauge is rectangular. Does it maybe just pop off?

Does anyone have a diagram of how the oil pressure gauge should be hooked up and what the parts look like all the way to the engine? Ours isn't hooked up and there is an after market gauge screwed under the dash with a small oil tube run to a sender on the engine. We don't think it's the correct sender.

THANKS!!
 
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