Paul,
As I recall, there is a metal strap with a tapped hole in one end, or
something like that. better check a parts book. Seems to me like a nut and bolt
on
each side would be just fine.
I will now philosophize a bit and tell you my thinking. I bought my TR used
in 1963 and paid $400 for it. I was in my barely 20's at the time, and
struggling. I did things however it suited me! My bent in that direction was
reinforced by the local Triumph dealer in Glendale NEVER having the parts I
needed,
so I got in the habit of improvising.
My car was not very correct. As I got older and worked on the car myself, I
got in the habit of trying to always do things as they were from the factory
if at all possible.
Over the years, I restored maybe half a dozen different British cars. But
one car really impressed me most after I bought it restored-sort of!
It was a short wheelbase 1970 XJ (forerunner of the XJ6). I bought it from
the college professor who had spent years restoring it. It wasn't a show car
by US standards, but he had done everything exactly per the factoryparts
manual. Whenever I took something apart, there would always be the appropriate
washers, many were replacements. I loved working on the car because even
though the paint might be worn (it was original), it was clean and had exactly
the
correct parts no matter how buried the location was. I even wrote the
previous owner (who became a close friend) a letter explaining what a pleasure
it
was to work on the car in areas I knew he had been previously (he took careful
notes and had excellent records of the history of the car). When the drivers
side seat bottom wore out, he had just that seat bottom replaced, not an
entire new interior.
Anyway, ever since then, I have always had the thought that whoever works on
my cars someday understands the care i took in doing everything as correctly
as I could. Silly, but that's my way of thinking!
Good Luck!
Mike Moore
59 TR3A
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