FRP top question
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Sweet! Also a perfect way to learn R&R.
Pleezzze tell me they are not in MO.
Pleezzze tell me they are not in MO.
It looks like these are the substituted part numbers for the pre 90?
Lol will do
Sweet! Also a perfect way to learn R&R.
Pleezzze tell me they are not in MO.
I do have one here in Utah but I'd rather not take the windows of that one. So I guess I have 3 surplus FRP tops. This can be a project for us this summer.
Come on guys ,I am about ready to pull the top from my 73 next week or so.
All you Utah folks not ready for this
Boooo, hissss.
I miss global warming, this snow all the time is getting old
Let's cut one up, drop at a canvas shop, and make an FRP 'framed' soft top, one that utilizes everything for the FRP.
If it can be done for less than $4-5k I'd say there's a market.
A new what?
Uhhhh......I am.
Soft top, windshield, window frame, cabrio, a to b supports, rails, and canvas.
If I had an FRP of questionable integrity, I chop big holes in the damn thing, wrap all in canvas, and make the transition from FRP to canvas wrapped, pseudo soft top a twenty minute job (with the aid of a pulley lift.
Crack ain't cheap....
Since we were referring to FRP and soft tops I meant soft top.
I've managed to find the rear window surround support for the soft top for my BJ74.
I also have a factory front soft top windshield frame with channel, so all I need is the canvas part, but I'm afraid to
price it out. All the bits are expensive..
That ain't all you need, sir, as Onur will attest.
The channel from front frame to cabrio (or whatever it's called) is different. The cabrio itself is different and all kinds of little pieces that, quite frankly, are astoundingly expensive....not to mention the canvas itself.
There's Jenga, then there's Kanji, the latter being similarly puzzling, and Mr. T's joke to the future.
A soft top with a frame that could allow a roof rack, like the Can-Back ones for 4runners would be the bees knees, since we'er dreaming!
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Do you have any photos of the windshield frame channel? A soft top conversion is on my wish list. There are a couple of after market kits apparently still around in Portugal but they are a bit expensive for me at the moment. A basic folding top for summer use can't be too hard to hard to make
Compliments of @beno who has done the legwork on this.
Can kinda see the upper channel in top pic, which has a profile like this:
Note the difference in give A to B piece, (drop rail above and below) too, as well the 'roll hoop' (attachments for cross and bows, as well no provisions to attach the real roll bar, aka muffler pipe art.)
Link? Company?
My 73 is portugese so could possible translate, but I'd bet the framework is all Toyota, with a Portuguese stitched canvas top.
I removed the channel, and will then replace the welds with nutserts. I put the FRP top on for
winter and will remove in the spring and then I plan on a simple bikini top while I source some kind of soft
top replacement.
The first pic, the channel is just sitting on the window frame for scale
I'm going to take a bunch more pics of all the soft top pieces for reference and show the differences from a factory FRP top to a factory soft top. I don't have all the pieces, but the ones I don't have I can make.
winter and will remove in the spring and then I plan on a simple bikini top while I source some kind of soft
top replacement.
The first pic, the channel is just sitting on the window frame for scale
I'm going to take a bunch more pics of all the soft top pieces for reference and show the differences from a factory FRP top to a factory soft top. I don't have all the pieces, but the ones I don't have I can make.
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So with the channel removed it is the same screen frame as used on the FRP top then?
Toyota Serie 7
The link above, if you scroll nearly half way down the page, shows an after market soft top kit. It appears to have two fold down hoops at the back. Very similar to one pictured recently in the modded 70 thread. I think this is old stock maybe?
Yes, the window frame is identical with the channel removed.
AFAIK, that is a complete aftermarket soft top. Not anywhere near factory. The factory
soft top has an aluminum rear cross member for the rear doors to close into. Like that pic of the tan one posted previously