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Originally Posted by FIA-ERA
I like it personally! Plus, it looks like you could squeeze another gallon of gas in that fill neck!! Do you have any pics on how it's mounted?? Pretty cool stuff.
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Sure. Here are some details. Now keep in mind that I had about two weeks worth of evenings to rush-fit this to the car so that I could make the timing for my Dragon trip, so some of the solutions I chose were time conscious, but they proved to be very effective, none-the-less.
Here is the card board patterns I made that were used to fab the brackets securing the HT at the rear of the door. Also pictured is the “T-bolt” used fabricated from some sheet steel and M6 bolts with the heads cut off.
Here is a picture of the rear mounting bracket and the doubler plate used on the outside flange of the top.
Here is the same area, only showing from the inside. Again, these brackets were made from the cardboard patterns in the first picture. For the sake of time, I used some spacers and washers bought at Lowes to securely fasten the bracket to the Soft Top bow furrel on the car.
Here is a shot of the area at the top of the windscreen. The “T-bolts” slide in the windscreen frame channel and pass through the top in this area. I’m using some M6 thread knobs purchased through McMaster-Carr. It works great.
This is a shot of the fuel filler relocation from the inside. I had a local pipe bender make the pipe and used some fuel filler hose from a ’67 mustang with some simple screw-type band clamps. This solution works fine, but I will likely upgrade this area over the Winter to something more robust yet easily reversible for when I want to remove the HT.
This is a shot of the outside of the Fuel Filler relocation area.
This is the other project that lies ahead for the Winter months – Splitting and re-hinging the trunk lid. I’ll detail this later on once I undertake that project.
If anyone needs any more detail, just contact me.
- Allen.