[Spridgets] Subject: RE: Hardtop hardware

[Cebridge]

The "correct" wingnut dor the j bolt is also used on the sidescreen bolts off
of a big healey. AH spares carries them.  Just an FYI

Leo


> On Nov 14, 2014, at 11:39 AM, Mark Haynes <haynes386 at netzero.net> wrote:
>
> Mike-
> The only hardware inside is the top bow sockets. The hardtop should have a
> pair of brackets that are at the back of the side curtain area that locate
on
> the top bow sockets. The hardtop is held down by two J bolts with wingnuts
> that pass through the top bow sockets and the brackets on the hardtop. At
the
> front there are just the two over center latches that hook under the lip of
> the windscreen.
> Most tops no longer have the original j bolts, the wing nut, BTW, goes on
the
> top, after you pass the J bolt up through.
> HTH,
>
> Mark Haynes
> It only goes one way-Pay it Forward
>
>
> I have an original Bugeye hardtop with some, but apparently not all,
mounting
> hardware.
> Nothing  inside the car.   Can someone please send me a picture of the
> interior mounting
> brackets, etc. showing how it all goes together?
>
> Michael Rowe
> The Holy Sprite
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