Hard top seals

[DJT]

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Same hard top - different cars.......

I have also removed the rear pin for the first two reasons that Julian has. Despite having a hoist. I always found getting that pin aligned along with the other fixings was a pain. Went through last winter without the pin anddidn't notice any difference with the security of the top.

Dave

[Arbman Al]

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jleyton wrote:

Rubce wrote:

Arbman Al wrote:

Thanks Julian.

My Mum lives in Ash Priors near Bishops Lydeard.
Rgds...Al

MY LORDS, right next to the West Somerset Railway. Superb

Bruce

Ah well, I probably won't see you after all. I live at the other end of the county - not far from the (far inferior ) East Somerset railway. I've done the opposite to you, having been born in Byfleet

Cheers

Julian

I actually started off in Worcester Park, then Camberley then Somerset then left at 18 to Southampton and back to Camberley area again - nice round robin

Is it the woolies trim with the bead - top one on that page?

Al.

[jleyton]

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DJT wrote:

Same hard top - different cars.......

I have also removed the rear pin for the first two reasons that Julian has. Despite having a hoist. I always found getting that pin aligned along with the other fixings was a pain. Went through last winter without the pin anddidn't notice any difference with the security of the top.

Dave

Hi Dave

That's the first time I've realised that your car was Somerset born - unless the plate's been changed? I didn't even spot it in the article in the (was it?) Plymouth evening news that I saw a couple of months ago.

Cheers

Julian

[jleyton]

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Arbman Al wrote:

I actually started off in Worcester Park, then Camberley then Somerset then left at 18 to Southampton and back to Camberley area again - nice round robin

Is it the woolies trim with the bead - top one on that page?

Al.

Well, I've used the plain rectangular section on the upper A post - don't recollect exactly which size.

My car had no seal there at all and I thought I was being clever and reducing wind noise as well as stopping an annoying water drip. It was only later that I discovered it should have had that 'P' section seal anyway.

My round robin was Surrey, Somerset, Cardiff, Bromsgrove, Swansea, Reading, Thatcham and then, 25 years ago,back to Somerset (even though I was working in Slough) - full circle

Cheers

Julian

[DJT]

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jleyton wrote:

Hi Dave

That's the first time I've realised that your car was Somerset born - unless the plate's been changed? I didn't even spot it in the article in the (was it?) Plymouth evening news that I saw a couple of months ago.

Cheers

Julian

Hi Julian,

You can't see it from the picture I posted, but the white one was also 'Somerset born'. That one was HYD700K. Both were originally registered to owners in Frome, which is one heck of a coincidence. My current Stag was originally registered on a private plate but was allocated its present one when the first owner sold it in '77. The first 4 owners all lived in Frome., the 5th in Monksilver. I am No 6!

Dave

[martin]

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I've changed the front seal on the hard top, the one that goes down the sides, Swarfega and a blunt screwdriver. Your chances of getting it windproof are small - that doesn't mean you shouldn't try.
The large side windows and the HRW make it worthwhile, also, although the car gets heavier, it handles better, stiffer I think. I haven't yet taken the pin out of mine but I reckon it's worth doing, never could get it to lock. Martin.

[jleyton]

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DJT wrote:

Hi Julian,

You can't see it from the picture I posted, but the white one was also 'Somerset born'. That one was HYD700K. Both were originally registered to owners in Frome, which is one heck of a coincidence. My current Stag was originally registered on a private plate but was allocated its present one when the first owner sold it in '77. The first 4 owners all lived in Frome., the 5th in Monksilver. I am No 6!

Dave

You see some funny things with plates. My car has had, IIRC, 6 Cornish owners but it was only after I got all the past info from DVLA that I discovered it had started life with a different Cornish plate, before having a personalised number for a while, then the number it has now.

However, my number was only 166 away from David Jose'swhite Stag that was on the cover of the August mag and not far away from someone else with a Stag in Somerset. It transpired that all 3 cars had been re-registered with these similar numbers and so maybe it wasn't such a coincedence after all.

I don't remember there being a Triumph dealer in Frome which would make your car's historyeven more of a surprising coincedence.

Cheers

Julian

[DJT]

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jleyton wrote:

DJT wrote:

Hi Julian,

You can't see it from the picture I posted, but the white one was also 'Somerset born'. That one was HYD700K. Both were originally registered to owners in Frome, which is one heck of a coincidence. My current Stag was originally registered on a private plate but was allocated its present one when the first owner sold it in '77. The first 4 owners all lived in Frome., the 5th in Monksilver. I am No 6!

Dave

You see some funny things with plates. My car has had, IIRC, 6 Cornish owners but it was only after I got all the past info from DVLA that I discovered it had started life with a different Cornish plate, before having a personalised number for a while, then the number it has now.

However, my number was only 166 away from David Jose'swhite Stag that was on the cover of the August mag and not far away from someone else with a Stag in Somerset. It transpired that all 3 cars had been re-registered with these similar numbers and so maybe it wasn't such a coincedence after all.

I don't remember there being a Triumph dealer in Frome which would make your car's historyeven more of a surprising coincedence.

Cheers

Julian

I thought you might have picked up on the last bit of my post (highlighted above)

Dave

[jleyton]

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DJT wrote:

I thought you might have picked up on the last bit of my post (highlighted above)

Dave

Doh !! :shock::shock:

Be seeing you

[Ian B]

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DJT wrote:

Arbman Al wrote:

Thanks Bruce.

That look similar to the A post upper seal - is it?

Al.

Same part, Al.

If the top isn't sitting properly around the back, have you tried adjusting the feet in the rear corners? Screwing them in a bit may allow the back end to sit down further.

Dave

Does anyone have a photo of the adjusting feet on their hard top, i have had a look at mine and it does not appear to have any, maybe the reason i can never get it to sit at an even level. second question will be does anyone have a spare set of feet they want to sell.

Ian

[jleyton]

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Ian B wrote:

Does anyone have a photo of the adjusting feet on their hard top, i have had a look at mine and it does not appear to have any, maybe the reason i can never get it to sit at an even level. second question will be does anyone have a spare set of feet they want to sell.

Ian

Hi Ian,

I hope this will be of some help, although I know it's not ideal.

The 'feet' consist of nothing more than a bolt screwed into a (IIRC) plastic insert on the underside of the hardtop. The bolt head then has a rubber buffer fitted to it to create the 'foot'. Screwing the bolt in or out makes the adjustment.

This picture, taken as I was dismantling mine, shows the bolt head but the rubber buffer had long since disintegrated.

Please ask if I can explain any more.

Cheers

Julian

[Ian B]

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Julian

thank you that is a great help, i will try and make/fit something similar and then find a rubber stopper to put over the bolt, this may be the first winter the top sits correctly



Ian

[AlanD]

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How about a rubber doorstop cut to fit?

[jleyton]

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The original was much smallerthan a doorstop,

Ian, I've remembered that I just might have a buffer but I won't be able to check for a couple of days. Any use?

Cheers

Julian

[Ian B]

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Julian,

i've been out in the garage for the last two hours, i have now fitted the two bolts (the holes for them were there) I will pop down to B&Q and see what i can find for rubber stoppers to cover the bolts, thanks for the offer but i should be fine, i'll post a picture when the top gets fitted.

Ian