Ah, mine didn't have any trace of the body gasket. There is a significant
gap around the perimeter of the lamp base, so that you can see right into
the wheel well, so it makes sense there should be some kind of gasket. It's
a little hard to see how it would have been secured, though.
Digging into the paint is the least of my worries, on this car. It seems to
me that the lens gasket also serves to space the frame away from the body,
although perhaps not enough.
on 8/28/13 12:24 AM, PaulHunt73 at paulhunt73@virginmedia.com wrote:
> On a different tack to bulbs: The gasket is there to provide a seal against
> water ingress, and there is another one behind the lamp unit against the
> body. I don't know how thick the originals were, but when I replaced my
> front parking lights as soon as I started fitting the lenses and chrome
> surround it was obvious that the edge of the chrome was going to dig in to
> my new paint. I had to pre-fit a nut to each stud to space them out, which
> needed three gaskets on the back to fill the gap. I've seen the car
> featured on the front of Clausager's book at a show and the edges of his
> chrome were dug into the paint as well, so it wasn't just mine.
>
> PaulH.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>> One more factor I should probably mention: the front marker lamps are
>> supposed to have thick foam gaskets.
>
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Max Heim
'66 MGB GHN3L76149
If you're near Menlo Park, CA,
it's the primer red one with chrome wires
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