[TR] Carpet install instructions TR4

[pethier at comcast.net]

----- "Geo Hahn" <ahwahnee18 at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: "Geo Hahn" <ahwahnee18 at gmail.com>
> To: pethier at comcast.net
> Cc: triumphs at autox.team.net
> Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2009 5:38:10 PM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central
> Subject: Re: [TR] Carpet install instructions TR4
>
> I have never seen instructions in the carpets I have received from
> Moss or TRF but if it helps:
> 
> The only pieces I glued were:
> -- the long sections that run along the inside of the sills
> -- the front (vertical) portion of the piece that covers the rear
> area
> -- that semi-circular piece over the diff
> 
> I used a 3M automotive spray adhesive.
> 
> The only pieces secured with screws were the kick panels in the
> footwells.
> 
> If you have the original snaps on the tunnel and floor you simply
> install new Veltex(sp) fasteners to match those.
> 
> The inner seat-belt eyebolts secure the rear end of the tunnel piece.

Sue's TR4 does not have factory seatbelt mounts.  Seatbelts were not required in the USA until 1963.  The seatbelts are aftermarkets bolted through the floor carpet to the steel floor.

> 
> I omit the snaps for the floor pieces as I use extra
> padding/insulation making things possibly too thick for snaps.  Never
> had one fly away.




Phil Ethier West Side Saint Paul Minnesota USA
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