I did this job last autumn.
I had great help with reading the related part in the How to buy and restore
the MGB by Lindsay Porter.
Lots of photo's made this job quite easy.
My most difficult part was to replace the rubber webbings.
My wife and son helped me, because it's very tight stuff.
The seats look fine with the original type of vinyl.
Cheers,
Hans
'71 BGT
-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Alan Reisse [mailto:rareisse@postoffice.worldnet.att.net]
Sent: donderdag 16 maart 2000 18:53
To: mistebar@juno.com
Cc: MGS@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Upholstery
I redid my drivers seat in my 76 B two years ago with one of Moss's vinyl
seats. The instructions are minimal, but adeguate. I also had the
advantage of a brochure from British Vistoria that described how to do the
entire interior of a LBC. The only part that really takes a lot of care is
the glueing the seat cover to the foams. This is critical to get the seat
looking right. Read the instuctions several times and procede with care.
The hardest part is getting the seats out of the car and then reinstalling
them while trying to line up the wood spacer and the rails. Also remember
that the seats and rails are right and left and they are not
interchangable. Make careful note of the alignment of the bottom seat foam
before removing it. I think there is a slight shift from center depending
on the side of the car that the seat will be installed in.
No special tools are required that should not be in your normal tool box.
Bob Reisse
76 MGB
NAMGBR 8-3559
69 MGC-GT
AMGCR 1325
At 09:43 AM 3/16/00 -0800, mistebar@juno.com wrote:
>Our 68 MGB-GT has a tear in the drivers seat and I am thinking of
>purchasing one of the Moss Viny Seat kits. If any one has had any
>experience with installing these, I would like to know how difficult it
>is. Moss implies it is easy indicating "Installation can be performed
>with simple hand tools, no stitching required'. This statement tells me
>nothing!!!
>
>Thanks
>
>Mike
>Mistebar@Juno.com
>http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.
>
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