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Old Feb 14, 2011 | 03:02 PM
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It's not bad at all by yourself. It just takes a little fines.
Enjoy your new top.
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Old Feb 15, 2011 | 12:09 AM
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Originally Posted by philihp,Feb 14 2011, 08:37 AM
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.
using larger rivets made this much easier! do you remember what the oem size was?
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Old Feb 15, 2011 | 10:29 AM
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I can find out if you're really interested, but your comment before really helped... On the weather strip, just drill a bigger hole.
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Old Feb 20, 2011 | 05:25 AM
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* If you screw up on riveting the weather strip and miss a strap at the bottom of the canvas, this is what happens:



* Anyone know how to keep this from happening at the corner of the window? There's a flap with a plastic tab on it. I don't want to cut it off, but I don't know where to put it.

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Old Feb 20, 2011 | 11:59 AM
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it goes under the frame. it screws in. its a bitch! it goes where the weather strip fastens to the frame on the end.
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Old Feb 20, 2011 | 04:54 PM
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Originally Posted by philihp,Feb 15 2011, 11:29 AM
I can find out if you're really interested, but your comment before really helped... On the weather strip, just drill a bigger hole.
no I was just curious, IIRC I went one mm larger than oem.
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