Help... roll bars
05-18-2005, 12:50 PM
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Help... roll bars
I replaced my top over the weekend. Everything went ok except for the roll bars. I can't get the plastic covers back together. I have tried to get them to go back like they were before I removed them but now I have a quarter inch gap at the top of both. You can actually pull them apart. I snapped the bottoms back in and screwed all the screws back.
Please help me out with this! Thanks
Please help me out with this! Thanks
05-18-2005, 06:02 PM
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Contact Muz about this. He had posted recently about using some sort of 2 part epoxy resin on the seem and holding it all together with tape till it cured. I think you're supposed to remove the roll bar covers by undoing them and lifting them straight up. I don't think you were supposed to split them apart. They were heat welded together originally.
05-19-2005, 03:34 AM
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Yeah, us aussies are pretty interchangable. 
One of my hoops split. Turns out that at one of the many incidents I went through in the 2001 someone had split one of them apart and even broken the plastic. The plastic welded the break and glued the two bits back together but not very well.
Slow challenged me to do it so I took extra special care.
One side has a groove and the other a lip. In the groove is a wire (outer edge and inner opening).
I guess it was a heater element used to weld them together originally. If you pull this wire out and clean up both sides until they mate nicely the job will work much better. Then use a reasonably slow setting two part epoxy in the groove. I masked off the outer edges with tape so if any glue oozed out it would be on the tape not the plastic. Once you've applied the glue fit the two pieces together with roll bar inside and supported. Then use gaffer tape wrapped tightly around in several places. It's stretchy so it will apply pressure whilst the glue sets.
It's been a few weeks now and it looks as good as new.
One of my hoops split. Turns out that at one of the many incidents I went through in the 2001 someone had split one of them apart and even broken the plastic. The plastic welded the break and glued the two bits back together but not very well.
Slow challenged me to do it so I took extra special care.
One side has a groove and the other a lip. In the groove is a wire (outer edge and inner opening).I guess it was a heater element used to weld them together originally. If you pull this wire out and clean up both sides until they mate nicely the job will work much better. Then use a reasonably slow setting two part epoxy in the groove. I masked off the outer edges with tape so if any glue oozed out it would be on the tape not the plastic. Once you've applied the glue fit the two pieces together with roll bar inside and supported. Then use gaffer tape wrapped tightly around in several places. It's stretchy so it will apply pressure whilst the glue sets.
It's been a few weeks now and it looks as good as new.
You guys all look the same when you stand on your heads. 
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