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Check into it

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Suggestion · Original poster

I will check into it

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Check with sunset)

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I think the cost of the kit is less than $300 (check with Sunset) but there is a couple of hours involved, you can do it as an DIY

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Help fixing a hard top

Replace shafts

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Suggestion

Go to Renntech and look at the TSB's (if you are a member) and it will have all the information and part numbers, this involes replacing both the shafts on the top and the mechanisms in the car.

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Help fixing a hard top

Replace whole mechanism

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Suggestion

There is a retrofit kit to replace the whole mechanism with a modified mechanism that screws in and is supposed to eliminate squeaks as it torques down tighter.

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Check into it

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Suggestion · Original poster

I will check into it

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Check with sunset)

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Suggestion

I think the cost of the kit is less than $300 (check with Sunset) but there is a couple of hours involved, you can do it as an DIY

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Help fixing a hard top

Replace shafts

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Suggestion

Go to Renntech and look at the TSB's (if you are a member) and it will have all the information and part numbers, this involes replacing both the shafts on the top and the mechanisms in the car.

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Help fixing a hard top

Replace whole mechanism

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0 original-poster resolution reports. Counts can overlap; they are not unique people or a success rate.

0 discussions have direct query context; 0 report a fix in that context. Other evidence may inherit the discussion’s subject.

Suggestion

There is a retrofit kit to replace the whole mechanism with a modified mechanism that screws in and is supposed to eliminate squeaks as it torques down tighter.

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POST 1 / ORIGINAL POSTEROriginal post

The idiot I bought my '99 cab from stripped and broke the passenger side "clampy thing a jig" as my son calls it. Porsche calls it a catch. The stealer wants almost $300 for one. Anyone dropped their hard top and need to get rid of the catch assembly? ....... That's what I thought. Anyone know where to get one at a reasonable price or better yet a used one? Thanks,

POST 2Original post

There is a retrofit kit to replace the whole mechanism with a modified mechanism that screws in and is supposed to eliminate squeaks as it torques down tighter. Go to Renntech and look at the TSB's (if you are a member) and it will have all the information and part numbers, this involes replacing both the shafts on the top and the mechanisms in the car. I think the cost of the kit is less than $300 (check with Sunset) but there is a couple of hours involved, you can do it as an DIY

POST 3Original post

Here is a link to the TSB http://www.renntech.org/forums/index...ownload&id=872

POST 5 / ORIGINAL POSTEROriginal post

Quotes source post: 4788825

Thanks! I will check into it

POST 6Original post

In case you need to pull it apart: Hardtop PDF

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