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MG TD TF 1500 - Factory Insulation

I know the TD had a tar paper like insulation on the transmission cove. But what about the driveshaft cover?

Some say it also had the tar paper insulation on it.

Bruce Cunha

I believe just only carpet and glue.

Frank
TF1414
Frank Cronin

Frank is correct. Karvel Carpet glued onto onto
the driveshaft cover. However, the 'corn row' type grain of the carpet runs east west!

Frank, thankyou for the heads up on the forthcoming
auction of the very low mileage TF9052. Appreciated.

I did try to email you however yet again it would not go through for some reason.

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

All right Rob. Now you have started it. Bruce is going to spend hours documenting the correct bias of all the carpet pieces. :-)

To be fair I have seen this carpet cut the wrong way and it looks bad. Since it is rolled over there is a greater chance of looking into the carpet and discovering its 'grain'. Same for the hand brake cover. Not so much for the other pieces.
Christopher Couper

You hit that one on the head Chris. I was not aware there was differences in how the carpet was installed.

So other than the tunnel, are there other carpet directions I should know about?

Of course, I am somewhat at the mercy of the manufacturers. I will have to check to see if they got it correct.
Bruce Cunha

Many cars do not have an original type underlay fitted ie.missing. Assists in any sound deadening required and helps prevent carpet wear on those hard floorboards.

Cheers
Rob Grantham
Rob Grantham

Bruce: The only two places I think really matters is the drive shaft tunnel and the hand brake cover. The rest are toss ups.

BTW Moss got it wrong with their synthetic carpet for me once but I had another piece standing by.
Christopher Couper

Well, I just unpacked the carpet kit from NTG. All the material ribbing runs in the direction of front to back. I included a picture of the top side and also the bottom as it shows the rib direction better.

From what you are saying, the drive shaft tunnel carpet should run side to side?

The good news is that this kit includes carpet for the back and the steel panel behind the seat. As these were not included in the original car, I won't be using them and can cut a new piece for the drive shaft tunnel going side to side.

It does mean I will have to have an edge sewn on a piece for the handbrake cover.

I will pass this on to NTG.

This kit does have a nice underpadding. It is some sort of a pressed jute-like matting.





Bruce Cunha

I need some clarification.

I looked at Chris's site and he lists the Propshaft carpet and the carpet on the passenger footrest as going across. He lists the cover for the parking brake as linear.

In his gallery, he has two pictures from different TDs showing the carpet on the passenger footrest going across, so I am comfortable that is correct, and from the above, that the propshaft carpet goes across.

That leaves the parking brake cable cover. I would think that if the propshaft carpet goes across, so would the cable cover carpet.

I want to let the supplier know what was correct from the factory, so would appreciate some input any input
Bruce Cunha

Bruce,

The photos of TF9052 has good shots of the carpets.

First one I looked at was 257, shows the gearbox cover as along the car, as does handbrake cover. Floor carpet was across the cars.

I am sure you will find most of the answers in there.

Peter
P G Gilvarry

Thanks Peter, I forget there is a different set of photos on Chris's site for the TF

Unfortunately, this just confused things even more.
The ribs on left front carpet is going side to side (picture 285). The left back carpet is going front to back (307) The right front carpet is going front to back. (Picture 340) The tunnel is going front to back. (285)

The carpets in this TD look too new to be original, so I question if they are correct.

TD 23834 on Chris's TD page has a carpet that looks much older. In it, all carpet ribs run front to back with the exception of the drive shaft cover carpet and the carpet on the right passenger footrest. This fits what Chris has in his carpet section.
Bruce Cunha

Some of those pictures of TF9052 have a carpet looking mat over the carpets so be careful. Many of the actual carpets on that car are so pristine you cannot actually see the rows.

I forgot I actually wrote up a lot on this subject including which way the rows were on each piece. Note also the many pictures I collected from the various pages and consolidated at the bottom for easier access.

https://www.mg-cars.org.uk/mgtd/mgtd_carpet.htm
Christopher Couper

TFs had the same orientation as Chris Couper has indicated ie. the driveshaft cover carpet rows run east west(across),the handbrake cover and gearbox cover carpet rows run fore and aft lengthways toward the front of the car. Same for the carpet under the drivers' and passenger side feet provision.

As has already been pointed out,TF9052 has the above set up if you look carefully around the non original ADDED protective carpet which the late owner applied to protect the underneath original,evident Karvel.


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


Rob Grantham

Ok, Got it. Thanks for helping with this one. Without this, I would have installed the kit and it is not correct.
Bruce Cunha

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