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Re: [TR] Webbing tension on TR4 hood sticks - cause of roof

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Subject: Re: [TR] Webbing tension on TR4 hood sticks - cause of roof
From: Geo & Kathleen Hahn <ahwahnee@cybertrails.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 11:33:37 -0700
banc8004@comcast.net wrote:

>My PO replaced the webbing on the hoodsticks of the TR4 when he replaced the 
>hood some years ago. I find that I get significant noise from the hood above 
>30 mph, and I suspect my webbing strips are too loose.
>

Mine are taut.  They are replacements as the original finally broke from 
age (they were also taut, maybe too taut).  Yours sound like they're 
much too slack.

>...One suggestion I have been offered was to add a piece of adhesive weather 
>strip to the top side of the hood sticks where the top lays on it - but that 
>treats the sysmptom, not the cause.
>

Assume you're aware that the front stick would have originally had a 
fuzzy pad on the top side?

Geo





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