why not lay it out on the tub making sure it is good to go, then put adhesive on it so that is will stick to the bottom of the top?
My friend I have been giving this a real hard think and feel I have done you a disservice with my previous comment regarding your theory of gasket placement. The secondary answer I am going to offer has nothing to do with a gasket.
I will be the last to dissuade you from following your intuitive and industrious application of the perfect hardtop rubber. Quite the opposite, your segue into something outside the "established norm" is the bane and fortune of owning one of these iconic machines. I appreciate your impulsive tendency to rub against the "acceptable". Hell, I do the same thing...Whereas dutiful denizens of the "faith" would claim a blasphemous foul to the application of "Diamond plate and Bed Liner", I chose a road that diverged in a wood (obvious rip-off of Frost).
You my friend, need to push the envelope and try your own"methods" and embrace the madness that compels you to march nobly against the dictated norms of restoration, ownership and the common "spring swap".
What is the worse for your efforts? Failure? Not in these pages. Truth be known, for every glad tiding of success there are volumes of trial and error hidden from the collective "Champions of embarrassment".
I lurk on the "hardcore tread"...I sojourn on the pages of the "Expedition build", hell I even spend an egregious amount of time on the "Camp Fire Cuisine thread"..My point? Go forward in all your reckless gasket abandon (I know, I know it's a piece of rubber).
If I had a dime for every twisted juncture I've traveled on a "Birf rebuild" expose, or a headlong plunge down a "carb issue" thread via these pages, I would have sufficient capitol to purchase a stable of pristine "Toyota metal" and a small island off the Hebrides. But I don't..
I have a mule. And, that mule to some, is like a unwanted wart on the A$$ of トヨタ ランドクルーザー
Toyota Rando-kurūzā. But it's my mule..
So, I hope this particular discourse and nonsensical odyssey down "the rabbit hole" will give you a measure of confidence to "give it a try"..
I look forward to your thread disproving the "ecumenical art of the hard top gasket application".
Testify......
(I gotta lay off the cough syrup)...
4 speed shift boot retaining plate arrived and promptly installed.
