Brian,
A few years ago, '94 I believe, I ordered a hardtop headliner from TRF
that was original, but the package was from John Skinner Mfg. their
phone # from an ad in Practical Classics is 0285-657410 / fax
0285-650013. Address listed as 82b Chesterton Ln.
Cirencester
Gloucestershire
GL7 1YD
England
Maybe they can help,
Jim Davis
Fortson, GA
CF38690UO
CF37325U
"Power British Performance Parts, Inc." wrote:
>
> John Jacobsen-Watts wrote:
>
> > I need some listers with hardtop experience to help me finish up my write up
> > of how to strip and rebuild a TR6 hardtop (tip 'o the day: put that new
> > headliner in the dryer for a short time to remove folds, then lay it out on
> > a flat surface!).
> >
> > My problem is this (or maybe no problem??): I put the hardtop on the car,
> > put in the windscreen bolt set (loose), the rear deck bolt set (again,
> > loose), and then tightened down the front set. Turned to the rear set,
> > turned the OUTER hollow bolt out for full contact between hardtop and deck,
> > then ran the 5/16 setscrews in to tighten. Doing this still leaves the rear
> > rubber bump stops with about 1/8" clearance. Is this right? If I turn the
> > outer hollow bolt clockwise to tighten, this will ony pull the hardtop up!
> >
> > In other words, I think I have this hardtop as close as I can get it to the
> > car proper. Is there something I'm missing? Is it OK for there to be
> > clearance between the rubber stops and the rear deck?
> >
> > Next question is about the side post/hoop clamp set: Do there pull the top
> > down in any way?
> >
> > Thanks very much in advance for your replies. I will have the full writeup
> > on this project shortly (in HTML) and will get it to y'all for review and
> > critique (much appreciated) once I have these bits and pieces sorted out.
> >
> > John
> > johnw@wrq.com
>
> John,
>
> Yes, the mountings at the B-post WILL pull the rear corners of the hardtop
>down better
> than the bolts under the backlight. That said, you may want to leave a little
> clearance at those bumpers because they WILL scratch the paint and you'll
>have two
> 'crescent moons' on your rear deck come springtime. I have a few customers
>with '6
> hardtops and I'm doing spot refinish work every few years in that area.
>
> BTW, may I ask where you got your headliner, and was it the correct original
>style
> material? We did an exhaustive search for the correct pattern material a few
>years
> back and gave up after 4 month's active searching.
>
> Regards,
>
> Brian Schlorff '61 TR-4 '64 TR-4 '72 TR-6 '79 Spit
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