Jon,
The five threaded holes are for bolting the rear stiffener that
attaches your soft top to the body (see page 460 of your Roadster
Factory Parts Catalogue). The top itself has, or should have 7 male
snaps for attaching the boot cover or tonneau (see page 462 of your TRF
Parts Catalogue).
I haven't bought a soft top in years, but the ones I bought from TRF
had the black plastic male and female snaps installed. The original tops
had white male snaps to match the white reflective strips, but to my
knowledge they are no longer available. If yours didn't come with the
snaps, install the top, lower it, fit the boot cover or tonneau, and rub
some chalk or other washable marking to the female snaps on the
cover/tonneau to locate where the 7 male snaps should be installed on
the soft top. Start with the center snap, located in front of the gas
cap and work each side out equally.
A word of caution; if your boot cover and tonneau have plastic snaps, I
encourage you to install plastic snaps to the top and body of the car as
original, or replace the boot cover/tonneau with metal snaps. The male
metal snaps are a little larger in diameter and a different
configuration and can destroy the female plastic snaps.
Hope this helps,
Jim Davis
Fortson, GA
CF38690UO
CF37325U
Crazeecooter@aol.com wrote:
>
> I am trying to put the rivets back in the doors and rear quarter panels for
>my TR6 and I am a bit perplexed.
>
> The rear bulhead has five threaded holes...but no holes to place any snaps.
>I remember the five threaded holes being for the soft top. I also know that I
>was never able to have the soft top and the tonneau on at the same
>time...because my soft top did not have the female portion of the snaps on the
>rear of it. However, there was a time that I had the soft top frame out and
>was just using the tonneau and the hardtop. My questions are:
>
> 1) Are there snaps attached to rear deck of the car for a tonneau and maybe
>the holes for these snaps got covered up at the body shop when it was
>repainted? If not, is my memory just very faulty and I never had the tonneau
>snapped down in the rear when I was using it?
>
> 2) Should there have been female snaps on the rear of my soft top? The soft
>top I have came from TRF has the reflective stripes, the zip out rear window,
>and came with the snaps needed to snap it down to the rear quarter panels
>already attached to it.
>
> Please someone shed some light as to whats going on here
>
> Jonathan.
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