Peter Truman Posted October 27, 2023 Report Share Posted October 27, 2023 should the Spitfire seats be bolted direct to the steel floor or can they be fitted on top of the carpet and bolted through it to the floor. Daughters Spit is bolted through the carpet and does creak a little (I'm no light weight, she is) also when removing the seats I found one mounting bolt siezed and thread bound with carpet so bad it stripped the thread, easily fixed! The car floors are in excellent condition no rust or signs of any cracking esp around the captive seat bolts which have an original small reinforcing plate that the captive nuts are welded to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Lewis Posted October 27, 2023 Report Share Posted October 27, 2023 have always used a spacer /penny washer to keep the slides off the carpet or they can bend but that was vitesse sorry Pete Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graham C Posted October 27, 2023 Report Share Posted October 27, 2023 Agree with Pete, should be spacers/washers between rails and carpet. Graham Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josef Posted October 27, 2023 Report Share Posted October 27, 2023 Using a soldering iron to melt holes through the carpet makes the seats much easier to fit, and avoids bits of carpet getting in to the nuts/bolts! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Truman Posted October 27, 2023 Author Report Share Posted October 27, 2023 Thanks gents, PeteL the Vitesse comes with thick big dia washers, but I'm not entering the argument whether 3 or 4, when I rebuilt my Mk2 I only had 6 ie 3 each side & I hunted all over for the missing 2 wondering why I only had 3 each side? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin Lindsay Posted October 28, 2023 Report Share Posted October 28, 2023 Better than what I found under the carpet on my 13/60.... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Lewis Posted October 28, 2023 Report Share Posted October 28, 2023 dont think there was any conclusion answer to why some parts list show only 3 Pete Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dougbgt6 Posted October 28, 2023 Report Share Posted October 28, 2023 (edited) Mine are bolted to the floor crushing the carpet. I can't see the frame bending, but compensating washers are a good idea. A job in the last brief summer was to replace a stripped thread seat bolt. The bolt disappeared up the frame and won't come out. A job next summer is to take the seat out and wave it about to recover the bolt. Or forget about the bolt and put another one in, but, the loose bolt is bound to rattle. Or leave it, It's the passenger seat, I don't have passengers so I'm not bovvered, until the MOT. Doug Edited October 28, 2023 by dougbgt6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin Lindsay Posted October 28, 2023 Report Share Posted October 28, 2023 The rails are only raised up to make adjustment easier against the carpet, so doing without won't affect anything bar the slide. I think it's to do with the profile of the metal floor, that three spacers were needed and not four. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morgana Posted October 28, 2023 Report Share Posted October 28, 2023 MGBs have a wooden slat under the seat base with holes at each end for thick washers so the base is screwed down against the spacer and the slat ensures the middle doesn't sag. Triumph seem to have gone with the spacer washers only, at least for the Herald. I've just had the seats in and out to fix a PO's metric bodge and there was an uneven variety of washers. Returning to the original captive UNF nuts and some new spacer washers (between carpet and seat base) from Mick Dolphin mean the seats slide far better now and can be installed and removed in a trice from inside the car, without having to have a Mr Tickle hand underneat to hold a nut... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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