Article 4 of 9

Subject:      hardtop hardware
From:         dekker@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca ()
Date:         1996/12/13
Message-Id:   <58rslm$cio$2@news.sas.ab.ca>
Newsgroups:   rec.autos.makers.mazda.miata
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Well, now you've got to take the interior apart.  Start with the sill plate,
then the weather striping at the rear of the door jam. the plate at the top,
and the various (two I think) bolts at the rear of the side panels.  Once
loose, you'll have to remove the clip at the back of the seat belt tower, and
take the clip out which the seat belt runs through at the front.  Now you've
got one of your two side panels out.  There will be two threaded bolt holes
in the car, which is where the hardtop clip bolts to, but you'll have to cut
the oval shaped hole in the side panel first...the's pattern already there.
Get a sharp knife, dremel tool, heated plastic cutter, whatever have you to do
the job, make the hole, reinstall the panel, and bolt the hardtop clip in and
you're done one side.  Repeat and you're done.

Should take about half and hour.

Regards,

Richard Dekker, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, M-CLUB #90, MCofA #41997
Founder & President, Wild Rose Chapter - Miata Club of America

1990 MX-5 Miata - Mariner Blue with double white stripes