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TR6 Soft Top Webbing

To: "Jim Davis" <jdavis344@directvinternet.com>, <triumphs@autox.team.net>
Subject: TR6 Soft Top Webbing
From: <stantr6@bellsouth.net>
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 7:33:53 -0500
Gotta love this list !

Thanx, Jim.

Stan

> 
> From: "Jim Davis" <jdavis344@directvinternet.com>
> Date: 2003/01/21 Tue PM 08:24:56 EST
> To: <stantr6@bellsouth.net>, 
>       <triumphs@autox.team.net>
> Subject: RE: TR6 Soft Top Webbing
> 
> Stan,
> I didn't want to give out my dimensions for fear they are not exactly
> right for their top, but the following are the distances between bows on
> my TR6 tops starting from the rear forward: 17 1/4",9 5/8",12". The
> measurements were taken from the center of the webbing, beginning at
> where the webbing enters the slot on the rear stiffener and then to the
> center of the metal plates that are riveted to the bows. The top frame
> was securely latched in the front to the windshield when I made my
> measurements. 
> Note that there are probably minor variances in each car, but these
> dimensions should be very close. 
> 
> Hope this helps,
> Jim Davis
> Fortson, GA
> CF38690UO
> CF37325U
> 
> 
> List,
> When I got my '6, a relatively new top, with relatively new rips came
> with it.
> There were no web straps.  Later, I learned they are needed, and I would
> guess they are needed to position the free rib of the frame so as to
> eliminate the need to pull so hard the top rips, as DPO had done !  I
> now have a web kit to be installed when the frame-off gets there.
> 
> For those of us with nothing to go by, could someone please measure the
> various distances between the ribs where the webbing is anchored to the
> ribs.  Again, this is for a TR6.
> 
> Thanx in advance,
> Stan

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