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MG TD TF 1500 - Package shelf fasteners

I just received a set of package shelf fasteners. Included in the set were countersunk washers. I haven't seen them installed in photographs of original TDs. I also have countersunk washers with the floorboard fastener set. Were they installed at the factory?

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Tim
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TW Burchfield

They did originally use wide countersunk washers on the floor.
Dave H
Dave Hill

Thanks Dave. Do you know if they used them on the package shelf? I'm not building a show car but when it isn't expensive to do so, I want to keep the car as original as possible.

Tim
TW Burchfield

Yes, there were countersunk washers on both the floorboards and the rear shelf section. Quite a few years ago, I bought a set from Moss and the washers were very different from the originals. Now, I have been told that the new Moss washers are much closer to the originals. If in doubt, check with From The Frame Up, theirs should be the 'most correct'...
Here's a pic of all three...

Geoffrey M Baker

Those look like the large countersunk floor washers (variants of). I thought the countersunk washers used on the parcel shelf were the smaller (regular) size.
Dave H
Dave Hill

http://www.mg-cars.org.uk/mgtd/mgtd_bolts.htm

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Christopher Couper

The washers on my TD were the same for the floorboards as for the rear deck. Can't say for certain that it came that way from the factory, but I believe they were original.
Geoffrey M Baker

Tim, the use of countersunk washers on the parcel tray was to stop the screws from biting into the vinyl.
John
John Walton

My 53 TD had washers only on the floorboards from when I bought it in 1957 until recently. The screws on the rear shelf were getting so far countersunk in the plywood after all those years that I added washers, but I don't think there were any there originally.

The shelf never had any covering. It was always bare plywood painted black.

Joe
Joe Olson

I agree with Joe. The plywood was countersunk to accommodate the flathead screws. The floorboard flatheads would protrude beyond the edge of the plywood. Bud
Bud Krueger

I meant 'floorboard washers'. Bud
Bud Krueger

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