Although the bolts will be painted, you are probably going to use new ones, so putting in the old bolts to the threads will keep them free of paint. Another lesson we mean to pass on to to anyone willing to listen is that when you are stripping a car for a respray it would be a good idea to reinstall any captive threads with their bolts. These went in relatively easily, although we had to remove a door capping for one and had some grief with a painted thread on another. Seat Belt Installation: Before we could fit the seats, we needed to fit the new seat belts I had bought from Moss. This catch turned out to be mangled The new catch fits flush to the bonnet and everything aligns!īleed Nipple Dust Caps: A really tiny job was to fit a full set of dust caps to the bleed nipples on the brakes as some were missing when we bled the brakes the day before! These popped onto the bleed nipples to keep them nice and clean The bonnet now opens and shuts nice and tight. I screwed the new catch on and after a visual check peering into the gap of the nearly closed bonnet I could see that it was indeed correctly aligned. Maybe it could have been bent back into alignment, but for such a cheap part, this seemed pointless. As I compared the new part with the old, it was clear that the old part was indeed bent out of shape.

We had looked at it yesterday and speculated that it had been mangled but without a comparison it was hard to confirm.

This might seem slightly odd, but the background is that this catch hasn’t really worked properly for yonks. A couple of hundred or so (cough) pounds later and I was back to the house by 10am to get the car our while Ashley arrived from Oxford.īonnet Safety Catch: First job of the day was the incredibly satisfying replacement of the bonnet safety catch. It was good to catch up with George and Owen who are always helpful and knowledgeable. I was at the shop before it opened and there for around 40 mins while we worked through the order and straightened out some previous issues. Shopping: The last of my three days dedicated to completing a batch of jobs on the MG started with an early jaunt to Moss of Bristol to buy some extra parts identified yesterday as being required to finish the job.

Mgb seat belt installation