This and That....

Not an official blog entry just a few things that I took care of over the weekend while waiting for parts that are supposed to arrive today:

These pictures are completely out of order but this picture is obviously of the seat bottom on the passenger side.  The rubber diaphragm will need to be replaced in the near future as they have become brittle with time and on the drivers seat the front has cracked/broken off so that it's unsupported.  I used a bit of bailing wire to bodge it and it may hold for a bit longer but suspect it will eventually rip through the rubber diaphragm.  
The drivers side after cleaning

The floors are very solid under the seats

No Rust at all

The bottom of the drivers seat with the missing clips, as I mentioned I reenforced this area with a bit of bailing wire but probably should think about replacing the diaphragms in the future

The sun-visors where loose and wouldn't tighten up, investigating revealed that a screw that was to long had been used on one side so that the one on the drivers side couldn't be tightened in all the way,  I couldn't find a posidriv screw but someone will have to look very hard to tell that it's not correct.  Posidriv screws superficially resemble a phillips head screw but they are different and using a phillips head screw driver on them will often strip them out. 

I pulled the seats out so that I could lubricate the mechanisms and tighten the recliner handle on the passenger side, when I pulled the drivers side out I noticed a loose bolt, unfortunately it was stripped but on the plus side the bolt was short and I was able to fix it with using a longer bolt

Just a before picture of the debris under the seat.


The seat recline lever 

Nice clean floor pan, again no rust!




Well, that's it for now.


Cheers,

Lynn

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  1. Drew ScherzAugust 26, 2020 at 6:32 AM

    Looks like this car has the same Kangol seat belts that MIK has? Nice. And it also has the plastic covers on the seat ends like the S2s? I bought a couple for my 69 that never were installed. Let me know if you need some new ones and I'll send them up.

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    1. LynnGAugust 27, 2020 at 6:56 PM

      Hi Drew, Yup, same style as my '64. Interestingly the seat ends, if I am following you, are the metal caps (cover the seat latch mech.) like the Series 3. Much more durable than the plastic ones that were on some of the earlier Series 2 cars.
      Cheers,
      Lynn

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    2. Drew ScherzAugust 29, 2020 at 7:51 AM

      The caps I have are the black plastic ones for the Series 2 that are flimsy. :-(

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