Convertible top replacement issues.
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Melting Slicks
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Convertible top replacement issues.
I just had a new top on my 75 Corvette and the man has many years experience and quite honestly is not very cheap either. Anyway he was unable to get the top to set down far enough to seal on the back corners. I should mention I had new weatherstripping put on all the way around as well. Does anyone have advice on how to get those back Corners to sit down and seal? At this point I'm thinking I may have to just leave it set over the winter with the top on very tight and hope that it pushes down the new weather stripping to the point that I can adjust the back pens and get the back Corners to go down and seal. Is this a common issue?
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From: Orange Park Florida
I bought my '72 in '95, the top it came with was a purrrrrfect fit, windows lined up just fine, sealed the back deck well, BUT with time of course, it went ...so I got another top and a fellow came over to install it, the top was too short on the rear edges of the side windows, making the top too low on the upper back corners and so windows could not close with glass all the way up......I forget the maker of that top, but it was already installed, and so I just took cutters to the vinyl and raised it up best I could and patched it in....hell with it.....
then it went and I bought from another supplier, and specd the side measure so no overhang, and installed it myself, a real PIA for an amateur, but at least I didn't pay for someone else to mess around and have a lousy job......
lots of it depends on the fit of the vinyl is my experience, seems like too much variation in production to me, and your condition there is different, as both of my 'new' tops fit fine on the rear deck area.....
then it went and I bought from another supplier, and specd the side measure so no overhang, and installed it myself, a real PIA for an amateur, but at least I didn't pay for someone else to mess around and have a lousy job......
lots of it depends on the fit of the vinyl is my experience, seems like too much variation in production to me, and your condition there is different, as both of my 'new' tops fit fine on the rear deck area.....
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Melting Slicks
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Yes I wondered if the top itself needed more material to allow those back Corners to come down. I also put new weather stripping on and find that it is too short on the front edges. You would think as many years as they have been producing these reproduction parts that they could finally get them right. I hate trying to make a car perfect and always have to live with second best because of someone's workmanship or substandard parts.
