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Soft-top mount on windshield
Post by binfordm715 on May 12, 2006, 6:02pm
I took the hard top off (for the final time ) and here's what I discovered I have for the soft-top mount:
http://img91.imageshack.us/img91/505/51206003a5rj.jpg
What am I supposed to do now? Is this rail something I can get from Best-top or such, by chance?
Anyone with any experience in this, I'm all ears!
Thanks....
Re: Soft-top mount on windshield
Post by socal715 on May 12, 2006, 6:26pm
Best top wont have anything for it. Thats manufact. into the frame. You could take c-channel from screen door or window frame or something and bolt it up... or just look for a new frame in Silverton Oregon? lol
Re: Soft-top mount on windshield
Post by binfordm715 on May 12, 2006, 6:31pm
Bestop will surely have the channel that I could get that would mount their tops. Question is, would it work with the rope-in-the-canvas M715 top? Somehow, I doubt it....
If you guys buy that truck, what are you going to let me have the windshield for?
Re: Soft-top mount on windshield
Post by socal715 on May 12, 2006, 6:37pm
you can have the windshield i guess... im not the one buying it....... bestop sends out the rails too? i didnt know that.
this is what i was thinking of.....
http://www.homeproductsnmore.com/ros...nelTopView.jpg
Re: Soft-top mount on windshield
Post by binfordm715 on May 12, 2006, 6:55pm
Bestop's rail is just an open rectangular channel though. Maybe 1/8" wide by 3/8 to 1/2" deep. Won't work. Unless they have a different type as well.....
Re: Soft-top mount on windshield
Post by socal715 on May 12, 2006, 6:58pm
Call them. They may have different sizes.
Re: Soft-top mount on windshield
Post by fisherman on May 12, 2006, 8:20pm
Tim if you come up with just the channel I can weld it on for you. Seems to me everything I've welded on the truck looks way better than any factory weld. I believe they used these trucks as practice for novice welders. Fisherman
Re: Soft-top mount on windshield
Post by k8icu on May 12, 2006, 8:25pm
Just look around for a new windshield or a new windshield frame. Keep your eye on e-bay etc. Call AB Lin, or Vintage PW or even Saturn and see if you can get one. Maybe if your lucky you'll find a nice NOS one...:)
Re: Soft-top mount on windshield
Post by 503m715 on May 12, 2006, 9:02pm
a.b. has nos ws frames with glass for $275 but he wont ship them this far. I tried to get him to ship me one. I sent you a pm I might have one you can use.
Re: Soft-top mount on windshield
Post by binfordm715 on May 12, 2006, 10:10pm
I'll just check for some extruded channel at the local RV store. Perhaps one of you gentlemen would be kind enough to break out your calipers and give me some dimensions of the channel?