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#1 lagerwk

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Posted 08 October 2016 - 12:39 PM

So last night when I put the soft top back on the front cable broke, where would I able to find a replacement?

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Posted 08 October 2016 - 01:34 PM

http://www.vx220.org...ed-help-please/ Fairly recent post on the topic.

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Posted 08 October 2016 - 04:01 PM

Elizp of thus parish..

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Posted 08 October 2016 - 04:06 PM

Thanks, bought one from her ebay store crafty-plates

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Posted 08 October 2016 - 04:28 PM

Like I said at Sywell.....hope the fitting isn't too bad. Some find the stitching so tight it's difficult to get the new cable through. Others have been luckier.

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Posted 08 October 2016 - 06:30 PM

i zip tied my old cable to the new one and pulled it through



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Posted 20 October 2016 - 09:02 AM

Thanks did order a cable from crafty-plates, and used the zip tie trick and got it pulled thru so an easy thing to do.



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Posted 20 October 2016 - 11:28 AM

I was one of those that found it really tight, I used the old one to pull a para-cord through, threaded it through the new cable loop and then pulled back, was a struggle.  Make sure if it is tight, that you pull in s straight line, otherwise like me you will be out with a needle and thread repairing the stitching from the canvas loop onto the main roof canvas!



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Posted 20 October 2016 - 11:29 AM

Just to expand on that, I looped the para cord back through the roof i.e. I did not knot it to the new cable, I tried that and it just would not fit through.







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