My car is a 1930 Murray Town Sedan. Can someone please tell me how the windlace between the front doors and the cowl is correctly mounted? I have some pictures of an unrestored 29 Murray with the interior door panel off and it clearly shows the windlace mounted to the door wood so that the interior panel would be mounted on top of the windlace. When I tried to duplicate that the windlace would get jammed between the door and the cowl. My interior is an older Lebarron Bonny kit that I installed years ago and had never fitup the windlace. Now I remember why. Thanks, Terry
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Richard in Anaheim CA
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The windlace has to be mounted to the body and the door closes "against" it. I don't see any way you could mount it to the door and have it work.
The wind lace tacks to the wood and the panel goes over the tail on the windlace. When installed correctly the panel provides a little pressure against the windlace so it is tight against the door when closed.
OOPS! That is my Tudor. My Town Sedan does have the "front" wind lace attached to the door. The top and rear are attached to the body.
Richard
Anaheim CA
The wind lace tacks to the wood and the panel goes over the tail on the windlace. When installed correctly the panel provides a little pressure against the windlace so it is tight against the door when closed.
OOPS! That is my Tudor. My Town Sedan does have the "front" wind lace attached to the door. The top and rear are attached to the body.
Richard
Anaheim CA
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Marco Tahtaras
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Check your door gaps carefully to see if you have any irregularities you need to compensate for. Also, be sure the cowl cardboard doesn't overhang the cowl as that will cause additional interference.
Doug in NJ
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This is indeed true. It took me forever to install my interior because I had to do a lot of trimming of the panels, which involved ungluing the fabric, trimming very carefully as not to cut the fabric on the face, and re-gluing. The problem is worse with mohair because it is thicker than other fabrics, and the good modern mohair is thicker and fuller than the original stuff. If they had made every panel 1/16" or 1/8" smaller around every edge, the kit would have gone in much more easily.
If I were to do another installation of a mohair interior on a sedan, I would have them send me the bare cut panels, I would trim them as required, and send them back to be covered and finished.
Doug
Thanks to all,
I am glad that I posed the question about the windlace. The feedback was very helpful and my frustration level is declining. Now I'll go back out to the garage and start trimming the interior panels. I did use a single edged razor blade to remove some of the "hair" from the mohair that was folded and glued behind the panels since the were so thick. It helped a little. Terry
I am glad that I posed the question about the windlace. The feedback was very helpful and my frustration level is declining. Now I'll go back out to the garage and start trimming the interior panels. I did use a single edged razor blade to remove some of the "hair" from the mohair that was folded and glued behind the panels since the were so thick. It helped a little. Terry