Barney,
The tyre clamp may reach to 1" past the top of the tream on standard size
tyres, but who runs those? I run 195's and the clamp just about runs to the
top of the tread.
Simon
You wrote:
>At 02:17 PM 9/28/99 EDT, P. Haase <PLM97@aol.com> wrote:
?>I'm confused as to which spare tire clamp is correct for a 1960 MGA >>1600
>>roadster. Is it the shorter or longer clamp? ....
>To the best of my knowledge, there was only one type of spare tyre >clamp
>used throughout the production of the MGA. It reaches from the floor >of
>the boot to about one inch past the top of the tire tread, and was
> >fastened
>with a big wing nut and an eye bolt which was pinned to a shallow >steel
>loop plate welded to the boot floor.
>
>Barney Gaylord
1958 MGA with an attitude
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