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Hello, looking for advice please on correct placement of the bonnet buffer part 619551 if anyone has fitted these. I can’t find any pictures showing them fitted but they naturally seem to sit better closer to bulkhead / windscreen than I would have imagined.

Also, I would appreciate any advice or lessons learned on fitting the bonnet rubber seal as I have adhesive but it looks like it may be abit fiddly / messy to complete.

Many thanks for your time

You can just about see them on here: https://forum.triumphdolomite.co.uk/vie ... 10#p309553

I think they were only on the early cars though, up to circa 1976.

Position of the bonnet buffers is a bit indeterminate but somewhere between the back edge of the engine bay and the middle of the heater plenum is ok.

On the bonnet /plenum seal, a 1" paintbrush is your friend, along with an old fashioned pot of contact adhesive like Evo-stick. Aerosol sprays are just too indescriminate. Glue on both sides of the joint and wait till the glue is well tacky before sticking it down. Don't forget there is MEANT to be gap on the drivers side nearest the engine the engine bay as shown in the photos above.

Steve

Many thanks all for the direction and advice. Much appreciated.

Mine is a later model (1980) but bonnet is abit wobbly and you can see where metal has struck metal so these should tidy things up

Thanks again
All the best
Steve

Carledo wrote: ↑Thu Feb 24, 2022 3:33 pm Position of the bonnet buffers is a bit indeterminate but somewhere between the back edge of the engine bay and the middle of the heater plenum is ok.

On the bonnet /plenum seal, a 1" paintbrush is your friend, along with an old fashioned pot of contact adhesive like Evo-stick. Aerosol sprays are just too indescriminate. Glue on both sides of the joint and wait till the glue is well tacky before sticking it down. Don't forget there is MEANT to be gap on the drivers side nearest the engine the engine bay as shown in the photos above.

Steve

I have long wondered about the purpose of that gap in the seal and have contemplated filling it with a salvaged section from another seal!?!

naskeet wrote: ↑Thu Sep 01, 2022 8:29 pm
I have long wondered about the purpose of that gap in the seal and have contemplated filling it with a salvaged section from another seal!?!

Me too. Odd thing is that on LHD cars the gap is on the "other side" so am wondering if it's relivant to the brake servo position.

Sad thing is, that (most of) the old chaps who put the cars together originally aren't around anymore to ask them.

DoloWIGHTY wrote: ↑Fri Sep 02, 2022 8:44 am

naskeet wrote: ↑Thu Sep 01, 2022 8:29 pm
I have long wondered about the purpose of that gap in the seal and have contemplated filling it with a salvaged section from another seal!?!

Me too. Odd thing is that on LHD cars the gap is on the "other side" so am wondering if it's relivant to the brake servo position.

Sad thing is, that (most of) the old chaps who put the cars together originally aren't around anymore to ask them.

It's debatable whether the car-assembly workers would know why the gap is there! One would probably need to ask one of the designers.

new to this wrote: ↑Fri Sep 02, 2022 1:54 pm I fitted poly ones to my car last week but found them to tall, had to trim them down to get bonnet height right

Dave

Poorly fitting parts which need to be fettled or modified in order to fit, is one of the common penalties of using and/or having to use reproduction pattern parts, as I know all to well from experiences with 1968~79 VW type 2 Transporters and 1980~92 VW Transporter T3s. I even got involved with the Trading Standards Association with reference to Danish manufactured exhaust-system components for these.

naskeet wrote: ↑Fri Sep 02, 2022 4:22 pm

DoloWIGHTY wrote: ↑Fri Sep 02, 2022 8:44 am

naskeet wrote: ↑Thu Sep 01, 2022 8:29 pm
I have long wondered about the purpose of that gap in the seal and have contemplated filling it with a salvaged section from another seal!?!

Me too. Odd thing is that on LHD cars the gap is on the "other side" so am wondering if it's relivant to the brake servo position.

Sad thing is, that (most of) the old chaps who put the cars together originally aren't around anymore to ask them.

It's debatable whether the car-assembly workers would know why the gap is there! One would probably need to ask one of the designers.

I cannot agree.

If we are asking why it's there then I am sure they would of too, it's only human nature to be curious about such things regardless of your position within the factory.

Why is this topic in General Chat? Surely it's Dolomite related?

DoloWIGHTY wrote: ↑Mon Sep 05, 2022 8:50 am

naskeet wrote: ↑Fri Sep 02, 2022 4:22 pm

DoloWIGHTY wrote: ↑Fri Sep 02, 2022 8:44 am

Me too. Odd thing is that on LHD cars the gap is on the "other side" so am wondering if it's relivant to the brake servo position.

Sad thing is, that (most of) the old chaps who put the cars together originally aren't around anymore to ask them.

It's debatable whether the car-assembly workers would know why the gap is there! One would probably need to ask one of the designers.

I cannot agree.

If we are asking why it's there then I am sure they would of too, it's only human nature to be curious about such things regardless of your position within the factory.

This might be true of a minority of factory assembly workers, but in general most such workers tend to have other more mundane things on their mind, such as football matches & results. For many workers, their principal work-interest is how much money they will be paid at the end of the week or month, and what they can do with this money!

There are even some exotic supercars that use the Dolomite bonnet buffers.

Jeroen