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MG MG Y Type - Running Board Rubbers.

Folks, am removing aluminium strips from YA runninboards for renovation and taking the opportunity to fit new rubbers. The original fixings (aluminium strip to runningboard) look like hand-filed pins, with a flattened head to avoid lumps in the rubber; and a peened shank underneath the runningboard. I notice NTG offer domed head setscrews - but have asked them whether the replacement rubber has indents in the underside to "accept" the head of the setscrew.

In the meantime, has anyone else used a flatter (head) fixing to attach new rubbers? Any experience gratefully received. Yours, John.
J P Hall

John
Check out Woolies http://www.woolies-trim.co.uk/c-113-aluminium-sections.aspx I suspect you will be lucky to find a rubber section to fit your existing ally strips. Send for a sample first. I fixed using csk head ss set scews and nuts.
Peter
Peter Vielvoye

Hi John

I used countersunk BA heads with nylock nuts solves all the problems and can remove if required. Not sure what size probably about 6BA, try for best fit.

Regards
Brian Hough YB,TC
B R HOUGH

John

What you are describing to all intent and purpose is a pop rivet style fitting. I have just pop riveted mine on to my Y and YT. I thought about nut and bolts etc and countersinking them but in the end I opted for standard pop rivets. The heads do not interfere with the rubber or cause bumps.

Paul
Paul R Barrow

The rubber and aluminum strips NTG supply - the rubber has a channeled recess in it sufficient for using pop rivets.

Paul
Paul R Barrow

Thanks all for your input - I agree the countersunk setscrew approach lends itself to disassembly later if needed. Paul, I'll try a local supplier first for the tread rubber (on account of freight costs) but otherwise NTG it will be. I wonder whether they yet have the door stop rubbers, which seem to be like hens' teeth!
Regards, John.
J P Hall

John

Normally they do but they are currently out of stock too. Their part number is normally R176 for these.

I believe they were also fitted to some other similar period cars - Rover springs to mind for some reason but I cannot recall correctly!

Paul
Paul R Barrow

Hi John, I have recently replaced the running board strips on my Y & was also blown away by o/seas freight costs.
I ended up getting a full set of strips & rubbers from
Heritage MG Parts in NSW and affixed by pop rivets. Also found a product (after I had affixed by another method) from 3M called VHB Tape which is a double sided foam tape to put on the bottom of the tread so as not to have a metal/paint connection to the car.
Ian
I A Henry

G'day Ian - where the ... are ya? Or where in Qld anyway.
I rang Heritage this week, and the guy couldn't tell me whether they sold rubber inserts for the Y! He offered TF strips, but I think they're different lengths ... obviously I could trim them if they're too long.
From what you say, I should go back and talk to someone who knows. Thanks for the heads-up on this. Yours, John. (I'm in Atherton, up north).
J P Hall

So that everyone understands the 'freight charge' properly, the company in question packs the strips VERY well so that they survive the rigors of shipping very well. They are wrapped in bubble wrap and then sandwiched between two pieces of plywood. They may not even then constitute much in the way of weight, but as anyone knows who ships internationally these days it is as much about Dimensions as it is about weight and they are a LONG package. The freight is actually therefore completely reasonable given the time and materials that have to be recovered to pack them in the UK (labour is not cheap over there and neither is wood!) and then there is the question of the actual freight itself.

The strips are themselves unique to Ys in their length so unless you have someone locally that can either supply the correct lengths or cut and cap to custom lengths the aluminum strips ... best of luck and I hope they are right :)!

I am prepared to pay the UK/US shipping charges as I know I am getting the right things from them.

Regards

Paul
Paul Barrow

Paul,
Please accept my humblest apologies for even suggesting that something sold in Oz could come near to replicating anything from the UK. Perhaps the supplier bought a batch from the UK for local demand, as I believe some models of MG were once sold in Australia. My other passion is fly fishing & I have been buying fly rods from both UK & USA for over 20 years, so yes I am aware of long packages. Thankfully these days most rods break down to smaller lengths than the 2 piece rods that were once the norm. (Usual length for a fly rod is around 9ft and they don't bend)
Ian
I A Henry

Hi Ian

Absolutely they could have been bought en masse. That is perfectly possible. With items like this is certainly IS a good idea for (if there are a couple of people wanting to do this exercise) to buy then as a group and then split locally given the weight of the items versus the dimensions of them.

Know what you mean about rods too - another of my fun activities is Catching though rather than Fishing although I do seem to spend more time in the latter activity.
Paul
Paul R Barrow

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