Hmmm. Maybe I can check that out at the next show. ... MGs at Jack London
Square is coming up. Thanks.
on 3/18/03 1:03 PM, Dodd, Kelvin at doddk@mossmotors.com wrote:
> Max:
>
> I was interested to hear that someone was using structural adhesives to glue
> new floors into his MGB. Which made me think (I know, scary). Why not glue
> the seat belt mounting reinforcement plate into the wheel well of the early
> car.
>
> If you get a chance, take a look at a 73- MGB rear inner wheel well. There
> is a welded nut plate (about 3" diam) for the seat belt bolt (or on later
> cars mounting plate bolt). That area of the shell is very strong, and even
> an unglued backing plate is unlikely to be ripped through. Gluing the plate
> to the sheet metal would reduce the possible tendency for the plate to cut
> into the metal under load (though I think you would have been cut in half by
> the belts first).
>
> Just a thought.
>
>
> Kelvin.
>
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