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1950 Prefect Front Bench Seat
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I suspect it is like the '48. There should be 4 "U" shaped straps that bolt down through those 8 holes in the wood floor. There should be caged nuts under the floor, 1/4-20 if I remember right. I can post a photo of a strap but I don't have a weekend care giver for my wife so can't get it before Monday. On another thought, I am trying to install the rubber retainer strip for the fabric top insert. This is proving to be almost impossible. How in the world did you do it?
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No rush, from your description I have it right, I will ave my son email you as he is the one who put our roof on and I think it was a 2 day job in the hot sun. Say hi to wifey for me and my prayers are to her
God Bless
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Here is what my son posted on a different site and I hope this helps everyone with a soft top.
2 people is preferable but this is how you struggle by yourself like me lol. Make sure it's hot or very warm outside or in garage as the vinyl needs to stretch a bit. If you don't have the old seal like me, use wedges and make sure you round the wedge so you don't tear the vinyl. (As you are putting in your seal that you keep checking your wedges that they are tight) Start in the back middle, wet the vinyl and under the seal constantly as it dries up. You start off by pulling on the vinyl while you push the seal to the inside to catch the lip. You will be leaning on it (to keep vinyl tight after pulling on it) with your forearm and left hand which is also holding the trim tool in a convoluted position and gently tapping the rubber seal into the channel (trying not to tear the vinyl top). I would get about 3 to 6 inches in then hammering the seal down (dont forget to keep it moist, trial and error will tell you how much to use, check wedges). Corners are the worst! Once you get as far as you can on the corner go past the corner & get it in on the other side then work backwards on that corner as it's easier to get the rest of the corner in. Water, Trim Tool & Covered Dead Blow Hammer.
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I wish you a successful install, as it is not easy cannot imagine how a person in 1950 could stand there day after day pounding the moulding into the slot. Well have to reinstall the gas tank today. I left off some kind of metal piece that goes onto the trunk floor pan in the very left rear, the filler comes up through this oblong hole and then goes through the body. This trunk floor pan item should have a gasket, but nothing is listed. The headliner is all that is left, and I have to add a cable splice to the stater cable as it is too short, and are you ready for this, I can start the bean fart up, yay. Headliner, I am thinking, will need to be installed at a shop as I am in no condition to be a contortionist.
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My son revised his how to install soft top:
How to install soft top.
2 people is preferable but this is how you struggle by yourself like me lol. Make sure it's hot or very warm outside or in garage as the vinyl needs to stretch a bit. Tools needed are Water in a small spray bottle, Trim Tool & Covered Dead Blow Hammer. If you don't have the old seal like me, use wedges and make sure you round the wedge so you don't tear the vinyl. (As you are putting in your seal that you keep checking your wedges that they are tight) Start in the back middle, wet the vinyl and under the seal constantly as it dries up. You start off by pulling on the vinyl while you push the seal to the inside to catch the lip. You will be leaning on it (to keep vinyl tight after pulling on it) with your forearm and left hand which is also holding the trim tool in a convoluted position and gently tapping the trim tool on the side of seal to get rubber seal into the channel (trying not to tear the vinyl top). I would get about 3 to 6 inches in then hammering the seal down (dont forget to keep it moist, trial and error will tell you how much to use, check wedges). Corners are the worst! Once you get as far as you can on the corner go past the corner & get it in on the other side then work backwards on that corner as it's easier to get the rest of the corner in. As for trimming the excess vinyl I lifted the seal & vinyl and stuck my long skinny razor knife in with a fresh blade and cut it right before it goes into the channel that way the seal sits nice and flush against the roof.
*I hope this helps others, posting this 8 months after I did mine so I'm hoping I remembered everything I did*
