This Saturday looks pretty solid.

 

I just did my top with a robbins...

Im going to be busy saturday, but have fun, its nothing the average joe cant handle, with the right tools or coarse

 

Ah... if I saw this thread earlier... I just made a big purchase so my poor raggedy top has to wait a little more...

 

Postponed. Found a place with a heated garage to do this.

 

Any update on this? I'll be needing this after my tax returns come in

 

Just a heads up, the hardest part of this for me was finding the correct rivets.... everything was 1mm too large or too small. Solved the problem by drilling then going one size larger.

 

Did most of this today. Still have to rivet in the back and put all the panels back. All I have to say is this:

**** rivets.

 

so your saying this took more than one day huh! don't skip the rivets. iv'e seen people do this.

 

just curious, did you have someone helped? or you just went ahead and did it yourself?

 

Things learned:

There were 3 of us... it's really the optimal number. I would not attempt to do this again just myself... certain parts would be *impossible*.

One of the last steps is to rivet a rubber weather strip around the bottom rear of the top... so at parts, you go through rubber, canvas, plastic, canvas, plastic, and rubber. Even with the longest rivets that The Home Depot had (Lowe's did not have them), this was a pain.

Then on the frame of the car there are 5 screw shafts that come out -- next to each rivet there's a hole these slide onto. By far the hardest part was lining all of these up, then sliding the center retainer onto them and screwing a nut on. THIS WOULD HAVE BEEN IMPOSSIBLE WITH ONLY ONE PERSON. We ended up wedging a bar up from the trunk against the top of the retainer bar against the bottom of the frame of the car; one guy would pull back on it while another guy held the retainer bar in line with the rest of the holes, while a third guy would put on the nut.

We did skip the rivets on the bottom section of the side rail.