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MG MGB Technical - splash panel

Hi

Can anyone give me a pointer as to how/where the splash panels should fit. I've just bought some and they're flat, whereas I thought they'd be a nice curved shape that fit inside the wheel arch in an obvious way. Apologies for being stupid.

Cheers
Darren
D Lewis

Do you mean the front splash panels? They will be a sort of D shape. The go just behind the front wheel under the wing and they should have a rubber seal along the curved edge. The are bolted on along the straight edge and the very bottom piece is bent onto the sill and bolted in place. The flange they bolt sticks out from the wheel well side of the engine bay.

Do you have some in place already I wonder? Or can you see right back to where the nuts for the door hinges are visible?

Simon
Simon Jansen

They also have sealing section in rubber that fits around the curved edge and bears on the wing. I paint waxoyl onto the wing where these touch to avoid retained water causing rusting. I redo it every other year and spray the whole area inc top of the inner sill etc. If you look at the body panels section on a website (eg Brown and Gammons ) you will see how they fit. It may be that the bolt strip they attach to has been lost to corrosion, however you can buy them and weld them on.If you do want curved ones there used to be plastic inner sills that clipped on and kept wheel driven water away from the pressed steel. I have heard good reports about them , I do not know if you can still get them.
PS copper grease on the bolts, lots of it.
S Best

The splash p;ates are better avoided as dirt gets in behind and rots the wing down the line of the splash panel. Fit a pair of plastic wheel arch liners and keep water out of the complete wing area permanently. I remove mine every couple of years for inspection and re injection and the inner wings are always as clean as I left them. The pair are under 30 quid.
Iain MacKintosh

Ditto to Iain. Rekon closing the whole wing area off with the plasic guards is better. Protects the area around the headlights too.

The splash panels are then redundant and you're far better off without them.
Stuart Robson

This thread was discussed between 09/05/2005 and 10/05/2005

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