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I have quick question about the fold down windscreen my soft top F20.
The car came with a removable hard roof and rear canopy. I plan to get a soft top made for it.
However it seems that the hard roof needs to be present in order to stop the windscreen from potentially falling forward.
How is the windscreen meant to be secured without the hard roof? Or is it supposed to be always folded down without the roof?
It has two cross braces
It has two cross braces bolted between the windscreen surround and the top of the roll over hoop located behind the drivers seats, these have two bolts at each end.
The windscreen outer frame has locating pins on the front at the top, the roof folds over the top of the windscreen frame and secures onto them, it is pulled back and has slides which drop into slide rails on the rear of the roll over hoop. It sits over the tubular frame and is pulled down where there are locating pins along the outside of the body, and slid over these.
This allows the front of the roof to be opened while the rear remains in place, and where it slides into its sliders gives it location to stop it pulling out.
Thanks, I think I
Thanks, I think I understand.
I'm missing the cross braces. Sounds like they attach in the same way as the hard roof that I have.
Would you happen to have any photos of your soft top arrangement?
They are currently dismantled
They are currently dismantled as the roof is off and the screen is folded down.
On the soft top there is a
On the soft top there is a large fabricated roll over hoop behind the drivers/passenger seats. This bolts to the inner mounting above the lower seat belt mounting, and has a plate with four holes on the outside of the vehicle which bolts on also for additional strength. The two rails run between this and the top corners of the steel screen surround.
You need the roll over assembly which is fabricated steel if you dont currently have it as this has the slides for the roof to slide into on its rear face, and forms the support for the roof at the middle.