Mg Midget Roof Folding

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Mg midget roof folding.

Folding frame hoods present more of a challenge as they don t have a tensioning bar and can be a real struggle to get the header rail up to the windscreen if the hood has shrunk back a lot. Remove the handles that secure the top to the windshield header. Remove the old top from the folding frame. Drill out old rivets securing the webbing to the frame and the top to the header and rear bar and remove the weather strips and hardware securing.

For equivalent instructions for the pack away hood and the pre 1971 folding hood see the mg experience tech library. Next unclip the two windscreen toggle catches then undo all of the foiling fasteners. A total of six fasteners altogether. Step 1 install the tenex fasteners first around the back and installing the retainer with the screws and snaps across the back under the rear window.

Two on the windscreen pillars two on the top frame by your ears and two on the top frame just above the b post. Mgb folding top frames. Step 2 cover the top and back window and interior as you are going to spray the 3m spray glue for fabric to metal or like product across the. It to the roof bow snaps and on our 1964 ford convertable the rear window gets unzipped and stowed before folding tghe top to prevent damaging the rear window weather it is plastic or glass i was lucky enough to get the original owners manual with my first 1967 mg midget back in 1974 and so.

Make sure you have enough material at the header bow first. This information applies only to mgbs with the post 1970 michelotti folding hood. Note how quality uses a pad on the hood to keep their tools from scratching the paint. Comments on folding the midget sprite soft top.

It is most important that the instructions for raising lowering and folding the hood are followed.