Hard top braces

[Vaughn]

Another questions.

We think we found why our hard top is rocking so much. There seems to be a brace missing on the back, anyway there are some empty holes where it looks like a brace should go.
Anyone have one and know for sure?

[Fritz]

Do you have any pics of it? I have 2 friends with hard tops.

[sHan tn]

our hard top bolts to the railings and rock a LOT so i used "very small" cable in a big V from the top outer corners to the middle of the floor behind the rear gate, then i used 2 small turn buckles to tighten the cables and no more shake or rock. the cables are hard to see.... and the way they are set up when i fold the top down they just lay faward and i dont have to do anything with them

[mikeherb]

We had a hardtop on an old '86 toon that rocked like crazy. I used some flat metal and clamps to gusset the top and removed a lot of the movement.

[sHan tn]

here is the cables i used for mine. (i lower the top on mine to trailor it) so i needed somthing simple

here you can barely see them



here it is close up



and it is solid as a rock now, i can tighten the turn buckles if the cable streches any

[Vaughn]

Thanks!!!

I would post pictures, but haven't seen where to do it!

[sHan tn]

Thanks!!!

I would post pictures, but haven't seen where to do it!

Above the post box it has the little boxes there and the one that says "IMG" is the on you want. when you click on it paste the url of your picture (in the middle of the 2 Img's)

[Vaughn]

(edit picture smaller)

[Vaughn]

oops, sorry I sent it way too big. You can take it off or resize it, not sure of how to do that either!

[HandymanHerb]

You can hit edit to replace it with a resized picture

[Fritz]

Sorry I can not help. The ones that my friends have are solid hard tops and do not fold down.

[Vaughn]

My husband looked closer and found all the bolts just needed to be tightened down more and replaced under the side! He also looked at the guy's that posted on here and rigged up a similar
contraption. It does a whole lot better.
The hard top seems to be alot cooler than the soft fold down we had.. We went out this week and it was nice even tho it was nearly 90 degrees.

[Gary]

I have a similar top on my boat with similar problem. However I am trying to find replacement vinyl for the rubrail that surrounds the top. Any ideas? anyone?

[badmoonrising]

Welcome Gary. You might find what you're looking for here:

http://www.rubrails.com/