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jvandyke

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I'm on vacation at a cottage about 50 miles from my house, I caught a ride back in yesterday so I could take the Midget out here, cool.
Anyway, it rained up here today, no garage so I put the top up, I think I've got the side curtain thing down, tough to "tuck in" when in the car.....
But the top lifts off the windshield at anything above 20mph and at 50ish it's silly, a good 1.5" gap in the middle. How is that supposed to seal on an Midget MKI ? It's a good top, Robbins.
 
I have a Sprite MKII and I have a steel bar at the top that (with great difficulty) slides into a groove on the outside of the windshield frame.

It sounds as if you don't have that bar. Do you??

George
 
Hehe, you can get a metal/alum strip from any good hardware that will just fit in that top pocket. It then will wedge under the lip on the top of the windsheld with the snaps on the ends holding the whole thing in place. It will not leak nor will the wind remove. Tested to 85.
 
Did you release the top bows on each side so they pop up & put more pressure against the hood? On each side of the bows where they go into the bracket are "thumb" latches that slide over a pin in the bow itself...with the "latch" in place against the pin, the bows are shorter than when the pin is released by rotating the "latch" off the pins.

Does that description make sense?
 
Yes, there's a metal bar in a pocket across the front edge of the top, I was not aware it was supposed to be tucked into the windshield frame, I'll look at that next time it's on. As for the bows and latches/pins and stuff, I can't envision it away from the car but I'll examine it next time, so far I just dropped the bar into the slot and shrugged at the goofy little rotating thingy-mick-bobbers on the ends.
 
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