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Re: [TR] TR6 Hardtop Installation

To: Todd Bermudez <red_tr250@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: [TR] TR6 Hardtop Installation
From: Joe Burlein <supertr6@earthlink.net>
Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2007 09:29:59 -0400
Yes there was. I have one on my car right now. (Picked up a mildly used 
one cheap a few years ago. Just cost me gas to drive to Georgia!) You 
still have to remove the soft top rear fastener however. What the soft 
top/hard top boot cover does is hold up the soft top so it doesn't 
"rest" on the wheel arches. It fastens to the normal soft top boot cover 
points and then to the snaps that should be in place on the hardtop 
itself. If anyone needs pix of it, let me know.

Joe
72 TR6


Todd Bermudez wrote:
> Dennis,
>
> Correct me if I'm wrong...and I might be as I've never installed a hard top.
>
> Wasn't there a "special" hood(soft top) cover for hard top models...this would
> be to cover the convertible top when it was folded down WITH the hard top
> installed.  I would think you would NOT have to remove the convertible top if
> this was the case?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Todd
>
>
>   
>> To: motorcarriage@charter.net
>> From: dncullig@us.ibm.com
>> Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 14:09:24 -0400
>> CC: triumphs@autox.team.net; 6pack@autox.team.net
>> Subject: [TR] TR6 Hardtop Installation
>>
>> Wayne -
>> There is some info on the VTR web site about TR6
>> hardtops but it's not detailed installation info.
>> I've not had the hardtop on my car since 1989 but
>> as I remember it, once you removed the convertible
>> top, it was just a matter of bolting the back edge
>> (4 or 5 bolts) into the holes used by the convertible
>> top, bolting the front edge (2 bolts) into the top
>> of the windshield and, if you have the hardware for
>> the side pins, installing them on the B pillars and
>> sliding the plastic "loops" on the hardtop over the
>> pins (these keep the top from moving side to side).
>> It'll take 2 people to put it on or off - it's heavy.
>> Be careful you don't scratch the rear deck lid -
>> there should be rubber feet on the bottom edges of
>> the top to keep this from happening. Then be careful
>> when closing the doors if the window glass is all
>> the way up - it may not line up quite right and hit
>> the edge of the top...
>>
>> Dennis Culligan, Highland NY / 1976 TR6 CF57948U - TR6IUMPH
>> _______________________________________________
>> red_tr250@hotmail.com
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