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Bubbling Sail Panel Issue for Dummies
12-06-2010, 05:59 PM
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Fixed mine last week in my garage. I have a way to get them off pre 98 cars at the salvage yard. Its a lot of work with out screwing them up. I have my buddy refinish/paint them for me. I remove the bubbled one and use the glue they say to use in the service bulletin which is actually 3M window weld that they sell at every auto parts store. Put the window weld on and align the sail panel. This takes seriously 2 hours to do from start to finish. This is my third car I have done. Probably do my buddy's ss in the next week or so. Oh by the way I am not a body man for a living. So just about anyone can do this.
12-06-2010, 08:05 PM
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Okay thanks, that's awesome. I'll pick up some different wire and try it again. I got frustrated and just sawzall'd the entire roof off of the car where it met the quarter panels, so I have it sitting in my back yard. What do you do when you come to the lip where it meets the t-top?
12-07-2010, 05:15 PM
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Okay thanks, that's awesome. I'll pick up some different wire and try it again. I got frustrated and just sawzall'd the entire roof off of the car where it met the quarter panels, so I have it sitting in my back yard. What do you do when you come to the lip where it meets the t-top?
12-08-2010, 09:59 PM
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thanks, I got pretty far today. about 2/3rds of the way done after about 2 hours and 2 packs of guitar strings haha. I'm going to try a hobby store and hardware store tomorrow to find some piano wire.
I think we used guitar string also. Piano wire was too expensive. And that tool above is exactly what I would like to try when I do mine. I think it would work good 
12-10-2010, 05:38 PM
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Okay thanks, that's awesome. I'll pick up some different wire and try it again. I got frustrated and just sawzall'd the entire roof off of the car where it met the quarter panels, so I have it sitting in my back yard. What do you do when you come to the lip where it meets the t-top?
12-11-2010, 07:19 PM
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hahah yeah, you know Mike right? He goes to RU and lives like a mile from me
But anyway really not really any around here. The ones down the road from Englishtown have a v6 4th gen every now and then, but I got mine from a friend who was parting his car on njfboa, I just chopped the whole roof off before he scrapped it
But anyway really not really any around here. The ones down the road from Englishtown have a v6 4th gen every now and then, but I got mine from a friend who was parting his car on njfboa, I just chopped the whole roof off before he scrapped it
12-18-2010, 04:36 PM
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Does anyone else know where you can order the roof panel for a ttop trans am? I saw Gmpartsdirect had them for $647 but they are no longer making them. I saw somewhere that Classic Industries had them for 801. and the dealerships all have the list price at $1075. Anyone know where I could order one? Still waiting on 6LITEREATER.. havent heard if they are making them or not but want to order one now! 
12-24-2010, 11:21 PM
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See above post. This is my friends cars. He did this one on his own, and I helped on his last one. All of the new tops used were removed from cars at the junkyard with piano wire or windshield removal tool of sorts. It takes time and care to remove without damage but its not hard. Neither of us are body men for a living. I am a GM tech tho and the bulletin clearly stated to remove using "wire technique"
12-25-2010, 12:24 PM
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12-25-2010, 12:40 PM
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Does anyone have ttop roof from a trans am that was affected and would be willing to ship to Florida? Please,just pm me thank you. It's for my 00 ws6 don't know if all years will fit? Thanks.