The '79 T2 I am currently working on came without a rubber boot fitted to the parking brake lever (where it goes through the cab floor), just a bit of rubber matting cut to slide round the base of the lever under the floor mat. I have a new boot to hand, but have not found any pictures or details of how it fits to or though the floor. Does it slide down the lever on the inside, with the flat flange against the floor & trapped against the floor under the floor mat (and / or glued to the floor) ? Or is it fitted from underneath the van with the lever removed, with the bellows bit squeezed through the floor cutout & the flat flange sat under the floor, then the lever pushed though it from underneath the van ? There are no traces of the original remaining (if one was fitted at all ?) & no signs of the flange having been glued down previously on either side of the floor. Nigel B.
If you can fit a handbrake lever boot in the nicely-moulded late factory floormat, I’ll give you a shilling.
Not supposed to be there would explain why there wasn't one ! I might just have to try for that shilling, seeing as I now have a rubbery new boot & don't like holes in floors.
Good quality original cab mats are like hen's teeth. Do you really want to butcher it? PS The front belly pan solves the hole-in-floor problem.
Oooh pray tell, and preferably add pictorial evidence, what a nicely moulded late factory floormat looks like. I have rubber flooring, but it’s not exactly tightly moulded around anything at all. I may be a smidge jealous!
Maybe gurus like @Bigherb can solve the mystery as to whether they were fitted? Certainly the ones the usual suspects sell don’t fit a standard floormat.
Yes they were fitted, just held down by the floor mat to stop them riding up the lever. Note there are two types
I suspect the ones everybody sells - with the bulges for the handbrake adjusters - isn’t the right type!
