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SpitfireGeorge

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  1. Hi Guys,

    Doing the car's interior now. How do you fit the 2 rear quarter panels just in front of the fuel tank? Rimmer's show that they need some clips but ever since I owned the car, approx 50 years, it has never had clips and they just push in and are left like that. Any advice?

    Cheers

  2. Thanks guys as always. Got one apart now but could not get the lift channel out of the top of the door, had to remove it via one of the big holes at the back of the door carcass. The one I took off had the screws missing from both ends but the one still on has both screws in it. Noticed in the pictures above that a screw was missing! Anybody know which is correct?

    Cheers.

  3. Thanks guys, patience, perseverance and time, loads of time, appears to be the key! Will press on and see how it goes.

    Might try slackening the hinge to body bolts, fit the door lock mechanism, shut the door and keep adjusting the striker plate until it looks OK and then re-tighten the hinge to body bolts! Worth a try?

    Cheers.

  4. Hi Guys,

    When I got my car back from the bodyshop the doors were a good fit with nice gaps. I took them off to do some body filling round the edges where it looked like the new skins had been crimped on using a set of teeth, bit like the edge on a steak and kidney pie. Now I am trying to refit them and I cannot get them anywhere near right. What is the knack to fitting doors?

    Cheers

  5. Hi Guys,

    Their reply was as follows;

    'I think there is a crossmember that gets in the way.
     
    You would need to fabricate some sort of frame or box for the runners to fix to, in order to avoid this.
     
    I don't actually have first-hand experience of this, but this is the feedback that we have had.
     
    Hope this helps.'
     
    Would still like the seats as I have lost one of my Spitfire seats and the other requires the frame welding and new foam and cover. Fundamentally need a new seat really!
     
    Cheers,
     
  6. Hi Guys,

    Finally got the dash rewired now trying to refit the steering column to attach the remaining wires from the loom to the column. The first photo is the filler with an elongated hole on the near side, the second photo is the mounting bracket with a pair of holes plus a single hole on the side. Is the filler attached to the mounting bracket using the elongated hole in the filler and the single hole in the bracket or one of the pair? Also in the filler there is a round hole on the face, what goes through there and is it used to attach the filler to the dash? 

    Wish I had written down how it was mounted when I took it apart!

    Thanks guys,

     

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