Windscreen

smoking joe · Postby **smoking joe** » 27 Jan 2014 11:08

Having previously removed the black
waist panel below the screen, which included
a short length ( 6" +/-) of foam rubber to u/s to prevent
rainwater running into the engine bay.

My question is, is this original, or should it have been full width ?

Also, if correct, with the slight recess above this and below the screen, how is the water intended to drain away ?

Many thanks

FI Spyder · Postby **FI Spyder** » 27 Jan 2014 13:31

It is not original. The finisher rests on two round rubber mounts on the body. I would think the foam rubber would retain moisture (not good). I am currently in the process of repainting it. I've stripped the old paint, sanded down the rough edges were it was stamped out (paint doesn't stick well to sharp edges,) treated the surface with Metalready, treated the edges with POR-15, etch primered it. There was a little imperfection in one corner so I sprayed some primer filler on it, decided to do the whole thing. The can was getting low and went on a little thick and ran so now I have to do some flatting. Should have stopped sooner. Oh, well.

Beans · Postby **Beans** » 27 Jan 2014 16:36

When the rubber sits underneath the two semicircular cut outs it is as it should be.
It even has its own part number ZKC3513 or WKC3946 depending on VIN number
Its only job as far as I know is to finish/hide these cut-outs.

Cut-outs are there to clear the bonnet's catch. And there were two different positions according to market/specification, so two cut-outs

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by FI Spyder

... The finisher rests on two round rubber mounts on the body ... <hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">
That sounds like an addition from a PO as I have never seen that before.

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1976 TR7 FHC (needs some TLC ...)
1980 TR7 DHC (my first car, a.k.a. Kermette)
1981 TR7 FHC (Sprint engined a.k.a. 't Kreng
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smoking joe · Postby **smoking joe** » 27 Jan 2014 16:38

Thats interesting, I have just located the online PDF copy of the TR7
brochure on [url][/url]www.moss-europe.co.uk which shows astrip similar to what I found on my car, but no description.
still not sure how the water was intended to drain away !

smoking joe · Postby **smoking joe** » 27 Jan 2014 16:43

I was just replying to F1 Spyder, when as I loaded my reply Beans responded. I have seen the 2 cut outs on both the body panel and this
base screen finisher, but my finisher is straight, no cut outs ! So the srip would only mask the cut outs from below .

Beans · Postby **Beans** » 27 Jan 2014 17:15

Black rubber underneath black panel surely camouflages the holes.
And the strip has to be flexible so it allows the catch to pass it.

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1976 TR7 FHC (needs some TLC ...)
1980 TR7 DHC (my first car, a.k.a. Kermette)
1981 TR7 FHC (Sprint engined a.k.a. 't Kreng
[url="http://www.tr7beans.blogspot.com/"]My full Blog[/url]</center>

smoking joe · Postby **smoking joe** » 27 Jan 2014 17:23

Beans I had a look again at for example Cars and classic cars
for sale web site, they all have a straight (no holes) finishers.

My foam was over the body cut outs (holes) but under the finisher
with no cut outs.

FI Spyder · Postby **FI Spyder** » 27 Jan 2014 18:20

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by Beans

That sounds like an addition from a PO as I have never seen that before.
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The rubber mounts are original and are the same for both the Spider (July '80) and Yellow TCT (early '79). The semicircular cut out are so you can release the bonnet if the cable beaks. There are two on the Spider and one on the TCT.

There seems to be several different methods. There is the straight finisher with strip of rubber for distance piece and two round distance pieces for the finish piece with cut outs or even some combination of the two as they used up parts.

- - -TR7 Spider - - - 1978 Spitfire- - - - 1976 Spitfire - - 1988 Tercel 4X4 - Kali on Integra - 1991 Integra - Yellow TCT

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