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[houleyh]

I am trying to figure out the exact position of the hoodstick. I took the bar's distance on a thread about webbing installation. Is it normal that to obtain the correct height (about 4" above windshield), the hoodstick is not fully extended? (see picture)

Also, How far down the hoodstick goes into the cockpit area. The front bow is not getting into the cockpit because the ends are hitting the pivots on the bracket (see Picture)

Any advise is good.

Thanks

 

[Moseso]

The front bow doesn't fold all the way down into my cockpit either. Hence, I think, hood stick covers and tonneau covers. Absent those, the front stick rattles.

The way I laid-out my webbings was to measure the top -- from the LTD fasteners to the first seam, and so on, so that the top bows matched the seams in the corners of my top. It's not hard to do, and it makes the top fit right. I'm not seeing the question you posed in the photo you posted. But, if you match the top bows to the seams in your top, it will work best. Any diagrams you may find, such as Terri Ann's, that spec distances between the top bows, should be seen as a starting point. What works for <span style="font-style: italic">your</span> top is what you need. These things aren't sewn plus-or-minus .001". And, your top webbings are don't need to be set to those kind of tolerances, either. Plus-or-minus 1/8" is more like it.

 

[vivdownunder]

If you don't fix the webbing to the spar immediately over the back window, then that spar can be moved lower so the vynil top can be fitted quickly and easily.

Then raise that spar back up to nicely tighten the top.

Viv.

 

[Twosheds]

Also, How far down the hoodstick goes into the cockpit area. The front bow is not getting into the cockpit because the ends are hitting the pivots on the bracket (see Picture)

Thanks

I will have to go out to The Laboratory to look at my car and make sure, but I think you might have installed the mount upside-down. This would raise the hoodsticks above the cockpit capping.

Maybe someone else will chime in on this and save me a walk?

 

[Don Elliott]

Yvan - Here is a photo from mine. I'll send you others off-line. Or come over to my house and bring your camera.

Don Elliott

 

[Twosheds]

Well, Don's hoodstick mount is installed like yours, so I must be wrong. It's nice out, though, so I might walk over to the Lab and stare at my car anyway.

 

[houleyh]

I've looked at my car again tonight. To align the stiches of the robins top to the hoodstick bars, my mounts should be backward???

Secundo, When I look at Don's hoodstick, it is not fully retracted. Is the final position fully retracted?

Thanks