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Luis_gz06 09-17-2006 04:44 PM

Blazer double wall Top (help)
 
Whats up people. I inspected my double wall top underneath where the bolts attaches to the bedside and found out that theres plenty of lug nuts where the bolts go missing. Does anyone out there know if those could be redone or fixed. Im very concerned about that cause how the hell would i bolt the top back to the Blazer the way it suppose to be without those welded lug nuts inside the top. Any good ideas would be appreciated.

Thanks, Luis.

LUV2XCLR8 09-17-2006 07:26 PM

Re: Blazer double wall Top (help)
 
Me personally, if you have a double wall AND interior panels, why even
bother with the side bolts, put you in some smaller threaded studs and
cover them with clear aquarium tubing, then they will function like dowl
pins, just the 2 visor mounts & the 2 rare braces is enough to keep it on
I mean come on, it's not like a t-top that's gonna blow away, my $.02 ;)

krue 09-17-2006 09:07 PM

Re: Blazer double wall Top (help)
 
May have noise, squeaking issues that way luv? I don't know.

LUV2XCLR8 09-17-2006 09:35 PM

Re: Blazer double wall Top (help)
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by krue (Post 1807389)
May have noise, squeaking issues that way luv? I don't know.

It's possible, but it's alot cheaper to try it than having a fiberglass top worked on ;)

kyle4381 09-17-2006 10:49 PM

Re: Blazer double wall Top (help)
 
My top was the same way I just made new nut plates and everglassed them back in and re riveted the ones that were loose. I fixed the cracks along that bottom edge also.

71jimmy 09-18-2006 01:41 AM

Re: Blazer double wall Top (help)
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by kyle4381 (Post 1807510)
My top was the same way I just made new nut plates and everglassed them back in and re riveted the ones that were loose. I fixed the cracks along that bottom edge also.



YUP, me too!!!!!!! Not that difficult, chances are the top needs repair anyway. I'm almost done refurbishing my liftgate. It'll be a few more weeks before it's back on, I'll post some pics then. I had quite a bit of damage/cracks etc on the top and liftgate so it's taken me several months to do, couple hrs here couple hrs there, but I'm almost done. Just wanted to fix the big problems so I can have my top on for the rust repair, but I got carried away, I hate doing things twice.

Luis_gz06 09-18-2006 08:43 AM

Re: Blazer double wall Top (help)
 
Kyle, whats everglassed mean? And how did you put the new nut plates back on? Luis.

kyle4381 09-18-2006 12:44 PM

Re: Blazer double wall Top (help)
 
Everglass is a brand of short strand reinforced body filler.. I cut out the nut plates out, re-positioned them and gooped the Everglass on to hold them in place. I then did the rest of the bodywork on that edge..

Luis_gz06 09-18-2006 01:00 PM

Re: Blazer double wall Top (help)
 
Kyle, thanks for your reply. Now, do you know who specialiazes in fixing those tops or anyone. Luis.


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