Help/Question Lowering Soft Top.
08-29-2007, 01:53 PM
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Here's mountaineer's jeep. He has boot & a write up on how to keep it neat. The bars are gonna run above unless your top sits on the body. Then they can droop below the belt line.
08-29-2007, 04:52 PM
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If you just flip back the top, the sailcloth folds will naturally fall along a line as indicated in RED (kinda sagging into the back seat and half-covering your rear passengers).
What you need to do, is "invert the folds" (YELLOW), and get the folds to lie as shown in the picture above. You may feel like you're forcing it, and it will require lifting the top a little to make it happen. The plastic retainers have some cut-outs to allow for this. Once you do this and you unlatch the top and fold it the rest of the way back, I think you'll find that you can get the top all the way down.
Hope that made sense.
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08-29-2007, 05:06 PM
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This picture says it all
If you just flip back the top, the sailcloth folds will naturally fall along a line as indicated in RED (kinda sagging into the back seat and half-covering your rear passengers).
What you need to do, is "invert the folds" (YELLOW), and get the folds to lie as shown in the picture above. You may feel like you're forcing it, and it will require lifting the top a little to make it happen. The plastic retainers have some cut-outs to allow for this. Once you do this and you unlatch the top and fold it the rest of the way back, I think you'll find that you can get the top all the way down.
Hope that made sense.
Thanks for the clarification
08-30-2007, 06:04 AM
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All the way down...
Here's how mine looks all the way down (no boot installed)...
For a cleaner look, you can tuck the corners in on itself. I'm not sure if this might damage the top; but, I figured this is probably what you would need to do to install the boot anyhow.
For a cleaner look, you can tuck the corners in on itself. I'm not sure if this might damage the top; but, I figured this is probably what you would need to do to install the boot anyhow.
