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need a video link on how to remove/install soft top and hard top

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need a video link on how to remove/install soft top and hard top for samurai, youtube has failed us.
so we should make our own vid.

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Offline Cuthulu

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Re: need a video link on how to remove/install soft top and hard top
« Reply #1 on: May 11, 2010, 03:58:15 PM »
I think the problem that you are going to run into it that there are different types. Mine for example was from "factory" but I have never seen another like it.  Turns out the dealer put mine on from a local guy making them and pocketed the difference.  Do you know which manufacturer yours is?

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Re: need a video link on how to remove/install soft top and hard top
« Reply #2 on: May 12, 2010, 06:28:17 PM »
There is a copy of the soft-top installation/removal section of the Samurai owners' Manual at Ack's FAQ (see link in my signature).

Do a search for soft top.

I hope that this helps!

Ack

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Re: need a video link on how to remove/install soft top and hard top
« Reply #3 on: May 13, 2010, 08:57:04 AM »
LOL, a video, eh, 8mm OK?

THANX for the Joke of the Morning. I should come around more than biannually.

4xoddic claim to fame

I bought the LAST fibreglass Samurai hardtop made by Guidon Truck Toppers, Paola, KS, (just down the pike from Ack, actually), IN THE LAST CENTURY.

It was a custom-order, as it had been some time (previous ownership) since that factory had put out a Samurai top. New owner called out for who knew how to install it when we showed up in our 91 Samurai. Of the 3 guys who installed it, I would guess at least one had seen one installed before. LOL

I was given a bad copy of of a copy of their install instructions. I only found them by Googlin' long & hard. Their only web presence was pdfs of PHOTOS of 2 color brochures & POC (nothing for a Google of Samurai to find).

Last I saw, they'd locked the gate; EPA & KS DHE was dealing with toxic wastes local Industrial Development entity was stuck with. Google:

GUIDON TRUCK COVERS RR 5 #-38 PAOLA, KS 66071-9805 913-294-4466


They also had one Samurai with their cab/fastback topper, DOA. Ever see that light blue <88.5 Sammy it was on, Ack?

Believe there are a couple of fibreglass Samurai top makers still in existence this century. . . .

Believe Guidon was a franchise, seems like there was also a factory in Chanute, but I had to explain what a Samurai was when they answered the phone, ~ 2000. A local fibreglass topper factory might have historical archives.  8)

Joe


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Re: need a video link on how to remove/install soft top and hard top
« Reply #4 on: May 13, 2010, 11:18:19 AM »
4xoddic said:

They also had one Samurai with their cab/fastback topper, DOA. Ever see that light blue <88.5 Sammy it was on, Ack?

Nope.  That would have been an easy-to-spot topper.
Ack

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