quick questions to help me finish rebuilding a MGB GT

[a boardman]

I am finishing off a rebuild of a MGB GT (rubber bumper think year is around 1977) for a fellow Pistonheader.

In order to finish it and get fluids in the car i have 2 questions.

1) with the oil cooler bolted into place the connections for it face downwards, I have 2 hoses 1 with a sharp bend on it and 1 with a shallow bend both have straight ends on other side. which either way i offer the hoses up they seem too long, unless i am routing them wrong, can anyone advice on which hose goes where ie sharp bend to left and to block shallow bend to right and to oil filter, even better a photograpth to show the route as well.

2) rear brakes, i have the final connection to make to the rear axle i have a bracket to fix onto the battery box and into this is the copper pipe and the flexi pipe, and on the axle i have a tee piece to bolt on, there seems to be only 1 place to bolt this.
but this seems very close to the battery box connection, should the flexi pipe bend down,up or to the side, again if anyone can show me a picture.

thanks for your assistance in this matter, these are the 2 final bit required before i put fluids in the car and hopefully get it going.

tomorrow i fitting a complete new interior and the only question on this is

3) front quarter light how does it seal to the chrome strip ontop of the doors can anyone show me a picture as when i offer up the quarter light there is a gap but no rubber seal for it or am i missing something,

4) what glue to use to stick the carpets down.

[mgtony]

Hope these pics are of some help. Looking from the front of the car, the oil filter pipe runs to to right of the oil cooler and the block one to the left.
Couldn't get very far under car but this pic might help!
There was some sort of rubber or mastic between the quarter light and the chrome strip on mine, but it had perished, so I put a neat bead of clear automotive silicone along to seal it.
For the carpet you could use a heavy duty spray adhesive, the only problem being overspray and getting it on surfaces you don't want it on, or use an impct adhesive like Evostik TX528.
Good Luck
Tony

[a boardman]

thanks for the reply

think i have sorted the oil cooler problem, we have the wrong one, we have a cooler from a early model and the fixing plates are opposite the pipe connections thus the pipe connections are on the bottom. but we should have a later version where the fixing point and pipes are one the same side (ie the top)

the windows i have finished with a little black p trim and does look good,

thanks for the picture of the brakes i will check it out when i am back at the car. 1 question does the solid brake line finish at the bottom of the battery box or part way up the side.

and i tried using EVOSTIK SOLV FREE IMP M/P ADHESIVE and it was useless will get some better stuff.