Thanks, Lew. It sounds as though the Airline body mounting is a bit
different from the 2-seater tub, but your note about the purpose of the
center bracket on the cross-tube looks as though it would apply to my car.
Cheers,
Lawrie
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lew Palmer" <lpalmer@roundaboutmanor.com>
To: <mg-mmm@autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2005 7:07 PM
Subject: RE: PA assembly
> Lawrie,
>
> I have the same (or at least similar) mounting brackets, but since mine is
> an Airline Coupe, I don't know how similar the mountings are. However:
>
> The brackets at the ends of the cross tubes (on mine anyway) bolt directly
> into holes on the body subframe. Actually on the Airline the rear two bolt
> onto forged brackets which are in turn also screwed into the front of the
> rear wheel arch frame (wooden) and the wooden pieces which form the door
> threshold.
>
> The front two brackets bolt onto the steel body irons which form the
> subframe of the body.
>
> The brackets in the lateral center of the frame should have 1/4" BSF studs
> sticking up. These insert into the floorboards and the driveshaft tunnel.
>
> I hope this is of some help, but never having an open-top P-type, I can't
> help much more.
>
> Cheers,
> Lew Palmer
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-mg-mmm@autox.team.net [mailto:owner-mg-mmm@autox.team.net] On
> Behalf Of Lawrie Alexander
> Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2005 4:13 PM
> To: mg-mmm@autox.team.net
> Subject: PA assembly
>
> Fellow MMM-ers,
>
> Eleven years after I brought home a basket case PA 2-seater, I have
finally
> made the time to begin the assembly of the body to the chassis. Naturally,
> having not taken the car apart myself, and having never restored a PA
> before, I am running into questions!
>
> The first should be a no-brainer but it sure has me puzzled. I have set
the
> body on the chassis and found four mounting holes - two at the rear, where
> angle brackets on the body meet angle brackets on the chassis, and two at
> the front where holes in flat plates on the body line up with holes in the
> chassis. So far, so good. However, there are, on the chassis, five
> upside-down U-bolted plates (2 each end of the two chassis cross members,
> one in the center of the forward crossmember). These look as though they
> should support something, as their flat surface is uppermost and the
> threaded ends point upwards, apparently awaiting something to be bolted to
> them.
>
> I can't believe that body is held to the chassis with only four bolts, so
> I'm guessing there are some kind of brackets that go on at least the
> outboard U-bolt plates, connecting to the side rails of the body. I have
no
> unidentified brackets in any of the boxes, tins, paper bags, etc., that
the
> car came in. Can someone please confirm the mounting method of the body to
> the chassis, and describe what goes on these U-bolted plates?
>
> TIA
>
> Lawrie Alexander
>
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