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MG MG Y Type - Door Seals

Having now repaired and sprayed the doors I now need new door seals, the type fitted with adhesive since the old tracks have long since rotted away. Can anyone recommend a suitable snug fitting profile, and supplier. Bryan
B Mellem

go to the Y type bbs archive, type in door seals for search and you will see the old thread (Several) on this topic.

Regards

Richard
R E Knight

Hi
i have problems to find the right post in the archive.
Need information how far the seal goes around the doors,
and what have other YA owners done if the door is rotten in the bottom

No infomration in the red handbook i bought
no pictures found in the web by searching with
mg ya door seal
used the forum search, but different to other forum search i know, no piuctures shown, my english is not as good that i understood all what is written, so i need pictures

have made more than 600 pictures from dismateling my car, and finishing metal work

different forum because i have a ta before and picture handling there is much easyer there for me

https://www.mgexp.com/forum/t-series-and-prewar-forum.46/mg-ya-no-1675-from-1948.4022768/
FT Franz

John Jebb is a real expert on this topic and his comments are in the archive Clive
Clive Puttock

Hi Franz,
On my car the tapered end of the front door Seal Track measured from the top edge of the door is 70.5mm down the door. on two other spare doors i have it varies 5-10mm longer. ! have just checked
the passenger doors on my car and lo and behold the front is 4mm longer and the rear 9mm longer
than the drivers side!! it's not a precision part and robots did not build these cars so the humans!!stuck the track more or less where they wanted.
John YB0362
JC Jebb

It would be great if someone would remake the channel for the door seal. Old rusted out ones could be removed and a new channel piece could be then mounted in place with epoxy resin cold weld glue. If the channel is already available - can someone post details?
Paul Barrow

Hello again,
measured from the top edge of the door is 70.5mm down the door."

thats only 7,05 cm, that could not be correct.

i get information of the channel in the other forum, it should be moss part

AHH 6440 from Moss UK
or
453-600 from Moss US

it should be about 1100 mm long.

shipping from england always so expensive that i bought 8x1 mm steel tube,

pressed it a little bit in the vice and cut it in the middel with my angel grinder (flex we say in germany)
it works, but it is not perfect like this, the wall is to thick
so i orderd ate break line 8x 0,7 mm yesterday, i will write how it works with this material

i will fix the flex and make a template to cut it
or
i will take a steel disc and put it to my
tile cutting machine

something like this here
https://www.amazon.nl/Einhell-Tegelsnijmachine-Kantelbare-Hoekschaal-Diamantdoorslijpschijf/dp/B07BRYNTSP/ref=asc_df_B07BRYNTSP/?tag=nlshogostdde-21&linkCode=df0&hvadid=430581855816&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=15602095257141090352&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9064120&hvtargid=pla-552371182225&psc=1

i hope it will work

a picture from my doors, with arrows where the channel propably goes



FT Franz

Hi franz,
If you had asked for the total length of the seal track fitted to the Y type i would have told you approx 2010mm total length per door
x4= 8/9 mtrs which is why i sell 9mtrs a time for a Y type.Where you get 1100mm from i don't know but if true i have been robbing my door seal buyers for the last couple of years strangely though nobody has complained.Because you were talking about the rotten bottom of your doors i thought you were asking how far the track went round at the back of the door,

JC Jebb

Hello
tried to order the seals from you last week ;-)
don t get answer until today.....
done it here:

https://www.mg-cars.org.uk/cgi-bin/or17?runprog=mgclassnew&mode=emailform&classno=1.10602155516372512


my english not so good and the translator also ..

so missunderstood.

the alternativ metal chanel you can buy from moss i don t know if it works, i have got the infomration from canada mg ya owner.

you have a pictue where the channel ends in the bottom of the door.

i thinnk most mg y have the same problem with the doors in the bottom, but i can t find the information in the web, and the search functino in the archiv i don t know how to use it so i could not find it
sorry

you have information where i can get the seals for the jack all ? NTG is really expensive

my restoration goes on, and i have made about 600 pictures from every step, in the moment i make a picture book, part 2, with all metal work i have done
FT Franz

To all y type owners doing a seal replacement the rear door seal needs careful cutting at the join where the wheel arch starts, thought i would mention this while we are on the seal subject.
John YB0362


JC Jebb

Franz,
Did you want to buy 9 mtrs of seal for your y type ?If you do i will find out the postage cost to Germany.
John YB036
Do you have an email address?
JC Jebb

Hello
yes 9 meter,
my email is Franz@Tenbrock.de
paypal possible?
FT Franz

i fpaypal not possible no problem, found the shipping price ?

FT Franz

It would be great if someone would remake the channel for the door seal.

i hope i find a way and the material to do it yourself

orderd a break tube fromATE 8x0,7mm , not there in the moment

if it works i will write how i have done it+
some pictures



where can i get the other seals for the door, inside...
someone tried modern seals for the windows ?
FT Franz

Hi All
! bought this tin of ALPHA some time ago and have not tryed it yet, but the specs quite good it might be the answer to the trackless people whilst on the track subject i have been in touch with a firm looking at making the track out of semi hard nylon early days at the moment but will post developments on this site.

John YB0362




JC Jebb

UPDATE,
this now is numbered ALPHA S758,around
£11 plus vat and if you need it posting around £10 because its classed hazardous.
John YB0362
JC Jebb

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