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MG MGA - Help: Windscreen

Hi,
I am in the process of fitting a new windscreen to my A. I have rebuilt the screen with new glass and all looks fine and dandy. However, I bought all the little packing and fibre washer bits for fitting it to the car, and low and behold, my wife has "tidied" them away. I can re-source all the bits off the internet except for AFH 1787, as now accoring to Brown and Gammon, who I bought he bitsfrom 6 months ago, these are no longer stocked. Moss and MGOC don't list them and I can't seem to find them on any USA sites.

Firstly, are they REALLY needed (and what do they do)?
Secondaly, can I make them out of out of e.g. thin steel / aluminium sheet?
Thirdly, does anyone know where I can get hold of some?

Many thanks in advance,
Grant :-)
G Hudson

Grant, If you don't fancy making them they are in Todd Clarke's catalogue as part no. M103 priced at $3 each. I'll have to get/make a pair soon as there weren't any on my car.............Mike
m.j. moore

Oh, THOSE parts. Purpose of this bracket is simply to hold the cage nuts to make it easier to R&R the windscreen without fiddling with small washers and nuts behind the dash. I had these pieces left over as mystery parts after my first restoration, and it was years later before someone could identify the parts and purpose. More years later during a fresh repaint I tried to install these brackets but could not get them to fit. The holes for the tapping screws are in irregular locations, and none of them would line up with any holes in the body cowling on my car. So I got lazy and left them off again, and my car has now done 230,000 miles without them and with no ill effects.
Barney Gaylord

Cheers guys!

If Barney doeasn't need them, then it's not a problem.

Thanks again,

Grant :-)
G Hudson

Hi Grant

Mine got lost when I had the bodyshell dipped and the alumimium pop rivets dissolved probably. I designed one from an orginal Bob West lent me and have had some made by someone on ebay http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=270543315996, cost £6.00 th epair. They made them flat and I bent them. The nuts are a nuisance to get because hardly anyone in the UK sells them. I got some 3/16 unf samples from Harrison Silverdale 01246 296 940 and have some others from US bought on ebay.

PS I am having a nightmare with a Triplex windscreen which is less curved than the original. Decided to go for a thinner screen after trying three times to get a decent Triplex screen.

John

John Francis

Interesting comment about the Triplex window John. I replaced my original glass two years ago with a new Triplex unit and it fit perfectly. Is the glass that you're replacing original?
Andy Bounsall

Hi Andy

The screen I am replacing is at least 35 years old although it is laminated so may not be original. I have tried my top rail against other screens and it fits OK. The Triplex screen overlaps the top rail at one end so is about 4/6mm less curved.

I spoke to the factory in Kent to get the screen and they told me they had started remaking the Triplex screen last year after a gap. So maybe the new ones are not quite right.

John
John Francis

When I restored the car I replaced the windscreen glass with a 'PILKINGTON' glass screen. It is of very good quality and it fitted perfectly. I bought it from the UK.
F Camilleri

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