![]() ![]() WD40 will make it all very easy, and is for sure my weapon of choice for cleaning, but not for lubrication. I have played around with designing a front mount for attaching the soft top and 3D printing it, but have not completed the job as I've not planned on making another soft top WW, and the first one holds up perfectly.Īaah, tearing down an old car and cleaning all and every part is so satisfying. ![]() I worked everything out from the pictures, and improvised whenever I needed. Attaching the soft top in the rear is pretty straight forward, as it simply slips down between the body and the rear tailgate and secured when the tailgate/spare wheel cover is screwed in. I drilled and screwd in some shortened screws into the front roll bar - this was the most complacated job. The challenge was fasteing the front of the soft top to the rollbar. I used some heavy duty steel thread to make the rear frame loop. Materials (fabric and window) can be found around the house (an old shirt and plastic bag etc), and the actual soft top is very easy to make. I used some thick clear plastic bag for the rear window, and sewed everything up. I bought some thin canvas, as thicker materials will not looks scale. I used the template pictured in the first post, but redrew everything in Illustrator and removed the extra material pictured between the roof panel and the rear wall panel (this part is suppose to wrap around and be sown in around the soft top frame (?) as per the illustration). That inspired me to make mine back in 2004. One of the first and coolest Wild Willys I saw more than 20 years ago here on Tamiyaclub was by fellow member Kaindi - and it had a soft top. ![]()
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