The joys of installing the vent lid
Disclaimer: since owning my TR4, from 1995 onwards, I have never had the pleasure of a vent lid who would open by using the knob under the dash. The linking rod was missing. I could open it by manually from the outside though.
When my car was painted around 10 years ago, I removed the vent lid and stored it in a save place. So save that I never ever have found it again . So I drove the car without a lid for a couple of years, thinking that I would find it somewhere. But that never happened, so
Alright so for my rebuild I treated the vent lid:
1/ cut the inner and outer lips so it's 7 mm high;
2/ cut off the part of the seal that is under the hinge to make the vent lid sit flush with the scuttle top panel;
3/ ground the heads of the vent fixing screws and removed the washers so they don't fool the vent lid;
4/ ground the forward edge of the hinge by 1 mm to prevent the rear of the vent lid from fooling the scuttle top panel.
Now it's good until it's back from