This is looking straight down on the
main hoop with my new ends welded on. The rest of the roof hoop is on
the floor but they slide together even though it doesn't look like it in
this shot. One thing that happened while I was doing the fitting was once
I had to two new pieces tack-welded in place, I removed the bolts from
the main hoop to slide the whole thing out the door. What you have to do
is lean the main hoop forward a little and then slide it out but while I
was doing that, the drivers side piece was against one of the ropes and
the more I moved it, the more pressure it had on it. Now I didn't know
how much is was pushing on my new piece that I had just tacked on and it
fell off. Well the first thing I thought was that I would have to set
everything back in place again. I walked around the car to get the piece
and noticed something bad. One end of the tube that fell had a coupler
in it but the other end was real sharp and it hit the side of the seat
tearing it slightly. You can bet I said a few choice words when I saw
that. There's nothing I can do about it but at least it's on the side of
the seat and not where you sit.
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Here is what it looks like installed.
It fits great but was a lot of work. It goes together hard now after the
welding was finished but it does go.
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This is just a shot to show that you
that you can't see it from the front which is what I was hoping for. I
didn't want to have to look at it while I was driving ya know.
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This shot shows you how it looks from
the side. Notice where the couplers are and how the tube is going down
slightly. This is not how the tube was bent originally. Remember the reference
lines I talked about earlier? The lines are 1/4" from lining up now
but it fit better by doing it this way. It would be very hard to bend a
piece of tubing this way but by having two pieces to work with and
inserting the coupler, It was easy to do. Now I'm going to work on the
tubes that run from the roof hoop down to the floor.
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