Lutz Kramer
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I’ve just restored the top frame and the drain channel of my AH 3000 BJ8. I ended up in a problem with my old soft top, especially with the way the zip window is integrated in the soft top.
When I bought the the car three years ago I found that the soft top hadn’t been mounted correctly by the former owner. The rear end was not fastened to the rear trim rail which is again fastened to the drain channel, because all these part were not in place. Somebody just left it off, because they might had been totally corroded. They wrapped the soft top around the chrome bow (Moulding?) which sits on the rear shroud and cut about 2 inches off from the soft top. Unbelievable!
In the meantime I have lengthened the top by adding some material at the rear end. But now I’m not quite sure wether that part of the soft top that overlapps the zip must not be fitted to the top at its very far end, like it is right now. The place is marked on the drawing with the words "stitch down". This way the water that runs down along the zip is gathering in a kind of slot or sack an cannot be drained.
To give you a better understanding what I mean, I added a drawing and some fotos:
Maybe somebody has a foto of this area or knows how it should look like.
Thank you for helping from Germany.
Lutz
When I bought the the car three years ago I found that the soft top hadn’t been mounted correctly by the former owner. The rear end was not fastened to the rear trim rail which is again fastened to the drain channel, because all these part were not in place. Somebody just left it off, because they might had been totally corroded. They wrapped the soft top around the chrome bow (Moulding?) which sits on the rear shroud and cut about 2 inches off from the soft top. Unbelievable!
In the meantime I have lengthened the top by adding some material at the rear end. But now I’m not quite sure wether that part of the soft top that overlapps the zip must not be fitted to the top at its very far end, like it is right now. The place is marked on the drawing with the words "stitch down". This way the water that runs down along the zip is gathering in a kind of slot or sack an cannot be drained.
To give you a better understanding what I mean, I added a drawing and some fotos:
Maybe somebody has a foto of this area or knows how it should look like.
Thank you for helping from Germany.
Lutz
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