Relief for Rattling Colonnade T-tops!
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Relief for Rattling Colonnade T-tops!
If you have a '73 - '77 Cutlass and your factory Hurst Hatch T-tops rattle even after you adjust the bumper screw in the end of the clamp, you don't have to "just live with it". Here's one fix I've come up with:
-- Remove the T-tops
-- Find some heat shrink tubing that can just be forced over the tabs at the inboard sides of the top cutouts (yes, it exists).
-- After you have forced it completely onto the tab, cut it off leaving 1/4" or less of excess.
-- Heat it up with a heat gun, being careful to avoid scorching the T-top weather seal.
-- Repeat steps 3 & 4 above, thereby creating two layers of heat shrink tubing on each tab.
-- Trim off excess with a sharp razor blade.
-- Do this three more times and you're good to go!
Jeff
-- Remove the T-tops
-- Find some heat shrink tubing that can just be forced over the tabs at the inboard sides of the top cutouts (yes, it exists).
-- After you have forced it completely onto the tab, cut it off leaving 1/4" or less of excess.
-- Heat it up with a heat gun, being careful to avoid scorching the T-top weather seal.
-- Repeat steps 3 & 4 above, thereby creating two layers of heat shrink tubing on each tab.
-- Trim off excess with a sharp razor blade.
-- Do this three more times and you're good to go!
Jeff
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Cool suggestion. I like McGuyvering stuff like this. Just one word of warning: The heat-shrink tubing is not likely very tolerant of UV light, so if you drive (or park) the car in the sun a lot with the T-tops removed, you can plan on re-doing this every few years.
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