Nigel A Posted September 29, 2018 Author Report Share Posted September 29, 2018 Followed Rogers instructions and now have the hood really tight. Also closed the gap at the front slightly as I think I may have opened it up too much. Will go for a test drive tomorrow but won’t be able to relax after what happened. Hope to see the Surrey Top Guru next week to get hopefully get his seal of approval of the fit. Nigel Quote Link to post Share on other sites
roy53 Posted September 30, 2018 Report Share Posted September 30, 2018 On 9/28/2018 at 1:23 PM, RogerH said: Hi JJC, from above you capping looks about right. Next thing is to sort out the gap between capping and screen frame. If needs to be wide enough to accept the pouch with the metal strips in. If it is not then it needs opening up a touch. You could try a wooden spatula and lever it up - this may distort the capping. Remove capping and put spacers in to raise the cap. This will make you scratch your head Roger disagree Roger from above it looks like a non surrey capping Quote Link to post Share on other sites
RogerH Posted September 30, 2018 Report Share Posted September 30, 2018 Hi Ron, I can;t tell you which post to look at but one of JJC's pictures looks straight down on the cap and it looks pretty good (but a little dented) He quotes 75mm front to back - mine is apprx 72mm. I think it is the right cap but not fitted well. Roger Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Nigel A Posted October 4, 2018 Author Report Share Posted October 4, 2018 (edited) Still can’t get it right. Popped over to Roger’s earlier in the week and he kindly sorted me out with his brilliant adjusters and showed me just how tight his top is. Today I followed all of his procedures and have got it really, really tight and I don’t think it will pop out. The problem is it now bubbles upwards and I don’t want to just start bending things and creating more of a mess. It appears that the top is perhaps too small or more likely the frame is distorted. Any ideas anyone? Pictures below. Thanks in desperation Nigel Edited October 4, 2018 by Nigel A Typo Quote Link to post Share on other sites
stillp Posted October 4, 2018 Report Share Posted October 4, 2018 It still looks as if it's not properly under the lip of the screen capping towards the RH side. Pete Quote Link to post Share on other sites
peejay4A Posted October 4, 2018 Report Share Posted October 4, 2018 The nuts at the backlight end (do you now have Roger's nuts?) need slackening to make the gutters on the Surrey follow the top of the window glass. If that makes the hood too slack then there;'s a problem with the size of the hood maybe. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
roy53 Posted October 4, 2018 Report Share Posted October 4, 2018 2 minutes ago, stillp said: It still looks as if it's not properly under the lip of the screen capping towards the RH side. Pete agree with Pete. Roger i was looking at the picture of your screen capping and the one he posted and his looks like a standard one .A lot narrower front section than yours but that could just be the photo.As you have now seen it in person i guess it is correct . Nigel looks like to much tension on the frame. ROY Quote Link to post Share on other sites
stillp Posted October 4, 2018 Report Share Posted October 4, 2018 You do have the centre strap that fastens round the transverse bar in the middle of the frame, don't you? and the poppers that fasten to the ends of that bar? Pete Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Nigel A Posted October 4, 2018 Author Report Share Posted October 4, 2018 Thanks for your comments, I’ll have another go at adjusting the capping tomorrow. Whilst at Le Mans earlier in the year I compared my repro frame with an original and realised my rear legs were about an inch longer than the original. At the time I assumed this was so it worked with the repro hood. Couldn’t relax the way things were, so I’ve just returned from the garage after taking a chance and shortened the rear legs and the fit is so much better. They still need to be slightly shorter but I’m sure that after more fettling and using Roger’s amazing adjusters I will achieve a proper fit. Still not sure if I’ll ever feel 100% confident, so have acquired today a mk3 Spitfire header rail. I will persevere with the original for now and leave this for a later date if I think I really need it. Nigel Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Nigel A Posted October 4, 2018 Author Report Share Posted October 4, 2018 Thanks for reminding me about the centre bar There were no poppers on the hood to attach to the ends of the centre bar but were present on the bar. I will do this after I’m sure everything lines up properly. nigel Quote Link to post Share on other sites
stillp Posted October 4, 2018 Report Share Posted October 4, 2018 OK, does it have the flap that wraps round the centre bar? Pete Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Nigel A Posted October 4, 2018 Author Report Share Posted October 4, 2018 It has the flap that wraps round the centre bar complete with poppers, just the ones at the very ends of the bar that are missing. Nigel Quote Link to post Share on other sites
stillp Posted October 4, 2018 Report Share Posted October 4, 2018 OK, good. Pete Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Nigel A Posted April 20, 2019 Author Report Share Posted April 20, 2019 Just realised I had never finished this Topic. Shortened the frame so that it was the same size asthe original, some careful bending, repositioned some of the poppers and added the missing ones and with Rogers Mods no problem at 80( I mean 70!) so now happy with this so probably won’t be using the header rail I acquired unless I get bored and need another project.( little chance of that as my wife has a long list of modifications to the house!) cheers Nigel Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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