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MG TD TF 1500 - Bumper Spacer

Hi
Would some kind person please measure the depth and diameter of the spacer between the front bumper iron and the front wing on a TF.
I have none on my TF and if I get some dimensions i can turn some up The bumper iron has rubbed the paint of the wing back to bare metal
Thanks in advance
John
J A Davies

Hi John,
I just went to check mine and realised my chassis doesn't have any either! However, the rear ones are 1 1/2" Dia by 1 1/4" long with a 1/2" hole. There are also some curved washers available to go between them and the bumpers.
Hope that helps,
Chris
C I Twidle

I have a TD.
Before I did this I checked the Moss Catalog and the TD and TF part # are the same.
I know the rear is different, very different than the front.

Not much room to measure but I get 1-1/4" OD by 1/2" long.

Jim B.
JA Benjamin

The bumpers are off of my TF, so easy to measure.

The front bumper spacer is 1/2" thick X 1" diameter, with .503" diam hole. It is steel.
Looks like a previous owner replaced the BSF bolt with a 1/2" diam X 18 bolt. Shaft plus threads = 1.960" (not counting thickness of head). Smooth shaft = .689". 3/4 SAE head. Not sure about size and placement of washers.

FYI -
The rear bumper spacer is make from aluminum.
1-1/4" thick X 1-1/2" diameter. Hole is .527" diameter to accept 1/2" diam bolt with 7/16 Whitworth head. Shaft plus threads = 2-1/2". Smooth shaft = 1.478" Don't know BSF thread pitch.

Lonnie
TF7211
LM Cook

The current TF1500 I am working on has front bumper spacers with exactly the same dimensions as Lonnie C mentions. The bolts are partially threaded
on the shank and have GKN R cast into the head. Shank length only, 1 and 3/4 inches. Will check the 1250 spacers later.

Originally these spacers were painted Black. I suspect the larger aluminium
rear spacers were also painted Black,however being aluminium the paint sloughed off pretty quickly.

Cheers
Rob Grantham
TF3719("Aramis"),TF9177("Athos").
Rob Grantham

I just bought my TF. When I put a badge bar on it I noticed the bumper spacers were each different. Both were rubber. When I checked the Moss catalog I was amazed to find they were supposed to be metal! I purchased a set from Moss but I hesitate to put them on for fear the same thing would happen as happened to J A Davies, the metal would rub the paint off the wing!
I've been looking for a rubber grommet to place between the spacer and the wing to prevent the metal to metal grinding.
C. R. Maurer

Chris Lonnie Rob Jim CR
Many thanks for the dimensions,job done this PM.I also made a washer from a bit of old inner tube to fit between the spacer and the wing to save the paintwork.
John
J A Davies

C.R., maybe you could cut a grommet from a piece of inner tube? It would not need to be thick.

Matthew.
M Magilton

I use a bicycle tube rubber material placed on both sides of the front steel spacer. As the rubber of this tube is very thin you can hardly see it in place and yet it seems to stop the damage to wing/guard paint and the bumper blade supports.

Cheers
Rob Grantham
Rob Grantham

The front bumper spacer is usually 1/2" but can be bigger or smaller as the gap is determined by the first fitting of the rear wing, rubber, the running board, rubber, and the front wing. The gap is then measured to make the spacer. The factory sometimes added washers if the 1/2" gap was bigger.

The rear alloy spacers were not insulated by the factory to my knowledge and inadvertently acted as a sacrificial anode to minimise corrosion of the chassis and body in some cases.

Rod Brayshaw

This thread was discussed between 28/08/2017 and 30/08/2017

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