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Re: Boot lid seal - which way around

To: "triumphlist" <triumphs@autox.team.net>, "Northway, Barry" <BNorthway@textron.com>
Subject: Re: Boot lid seal - which way around
From: "Thomas Beaver" <beaver@spillmanco.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 22:04:20 -0500
References: <D209B1A6251025409F1CC9F3D8A8A1ECF2DF90@hqpvdex004.ent.textr on.com>
> Hello all,
>
> I'm about to install a new rubber seal around the boot for my TR250. It's
> the original type with a slot in the bottom, which is glued to the body
all
> around the boot opening, and an upper portion sealing against the bottom
of
> the lid when it's closed. The upper portion has sort of a double raised
row
> one of which is higher than the other. The consensus at The Roadster
Factory
> is that the higher raised portion goes toward the boot opening (that is,
on
> the inside). That's how I had installed the old one 12 years ago but it
was
> always hard to close the lid and didn't seem to seal all that well. Now,
> when I think about it I'm not sure that way is correct.
>
> Has anyone done this? Or can someone check their car to see which way it
> goes? I'm not sure but a TR4 might use the same seal.

Barry

Our seal has the rounded side out and the flat side toward the inside, and
according to my wife thats the way Piggot's book displays it in his book,
not that means much.

Tom Beaver
Indy
CD 7876L

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