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Vehicle & Technical => Series Land Rovers => Topic started by: rustprooflandyracer on February 21, 2006, 22:10:46
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Not what you all think :lol: Now the spring time is creeping up and eventually summer, I really want to take the roof off! Is it just a case of un-doing all the bolts along the front of the screen and the ones attaching it to the rear tub then lifting it straight off? How about attaching a truckcab, do you have to do many modifications to do so...
Cheers Matt :?:
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I use to do it when I had a S3. As you say it just bolts and lifts off. I use to put a softtop on for the summer and the hard top for the winter.
Paul
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It's easy enough - especially if you leave the top complete. I took mine off on my own, but a second pair of hands makes it easier. Ditto putting it back on.
Storage is a pain though - I took the sides off so it took up less room.
But yes - undo the bolts across the screen, two or three down each side and a couple at the back. (Take the rear door off first!)
I then inched the whole lot backwards until iI could let it tip down onto the drive - it's not heavy, just bloody big and awkward.
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I've just realised that my avatar shows it laying on its back on the front lawn! That was when I took it off - SWMBO didn't think that was the best place to keep it though....
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I must admit a series just looks soo really amazing with just the screen up and nothing else. So much a two mates of mine hope to go laning in the summer completely topless. Should give the grockels somethig to look at. :lol: When i took mine for her for an MOT after i had finished the rebuild i didn't have the HT on either, what was worrying was the amount of chavs cheering and giving me the thumbs up! :oops: But then a landy is the coolest vehicle ever!
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The apprentice at work is 22 and just couldnt see the appeal of a 40 yr old Landy. Then I gave him a lift between pubs one night and he was absolutely amazed - Roof off, foot down - bliss!!
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Well when my mate who had got his IIA first going in feb 2002, so the day after the MOT he took it into school, topless! Then at luch time we went for a drive round the local town. All 7 of us :lol:
Given it was a cold day the sight of 7, 18 year olds going down the main street in an open top landy did get a few looks. It was fun tho :D
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I did this a few years ago to my sII 109 and i came out one morning and
there was a bike frame and 2 bin bags dumped in the back of it :oops:
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what do you think? :wink: :lol:
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just remember to tell your insurance company.......
they might not like you doing it.
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Cheers, It has to be done! Just got to source a canvas from some where now and some hood sticks... Will wait until it is a lot warmer though, seen as it has just started snowing here :!:
Matt
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hehe i had to take the roof off mine in the pitch black with 4 other fellas to help do it quicker musta looked very dodgy all of us stripping the roof off b4 rolling it into the huge garage with a rather stupidly sized small door :roll:
ps try www.allwheeltrim.com for you sticks and hoods :) very nice peeps especially kim :)
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I have been topless since last summer in Daisy my 109 Series One.
'tiss great fun to watch all the car drivers wrapped in coat,hats and scarfs shivvering in there nice heated euroboxes :D
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I took my hardtop of last summer and replaced it with a set of sticks and a battered old canvas, I have yet to change it back.
It's much warmer in the winter than the hard top. As soon as the suns out the sides are rolled up and it's great. I was laning last weekend with the sides up, it was a wee bit chilly but felt great.
The truckcab as a plate that fixes across the back bulkhead and supports the cab, should pick one up for about a tenner.
Do in-form your insurance company, if not you are giving them a get out clause in the event of an accident. I'm with Footman James insurance and as long as they are told there was not problem.
The other thing about a ragtop is photographs look much better.