COnvertible top frame adjustment HELP NEEDED!
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Le Mans Master
Joined: Dec 2003
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From: Fremont CA
COnvertible top frame adjustment HELP NEEDED!
Anyone have any tips for properly aligning a soft top frame? I'm fighting my 70 roadster top right now, I can get front pins to align with holes in posts, then rear won't latch too well. Getting pretty frustrated at this point of my project, due to go to uhpolstery shop this Thursday and of course the weatherman says chance of rain
Racer
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I have recently completed a top off resto on my 70. Are you fighting a new top or just the old one? If it is the old one it could be top shrinkage. If is a new one could it be the tightness of the install needs some stretching (with heat). Another area to check is the adjustments were the top is attched to the body (behind the seats), if you loosen these and try to seat the top and then retighten.
Team Owner
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From: Orange Park Florida
I had both from the factory on my car, but to adjust the windows to the hardtop, then to adjust the soft top to the windows....
PIA to say the least, but if no hardtop to be concerned about, you need to cut the old canvass back enough to releive tension and do a duck tape patch to get you to the shop....
and see if that top goes up nice and easy...if not, cut away the side enough to see the tension cables on the sides above the windows those tension cables have done about nothing ever on any convertible I have ever owned...from import through GM/Chrysler whatever....
they supposed to resist shrinkage of the vinyl across the top laterally...spring loaded, but they actually make the top harder to fasten in front....
