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Bubbling Sail Panel Issue for Dummies
Use ronsws6's method, hammer and chisel, that way you won't mess up the other cars for other future Fbod owners who want to do the fix.
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Joined: Apr 2010
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From: North Carolina
Gotcha. Remove the hatch to make it easy. Remove the a pillars and the headliner. Piano wire the sail, then the t-top bar the the bars by the doors. After that push off EASILY so you don't crack. NEVER pry near the windshield, it will crack...
No need for a sawzall. Just wire saw, a helper, patience and persistance. Took about an hour. Removed hatch, t tops and weather strip. Not sure it could be done with a hardtop car.
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Still my car looks good but i don't use it much these days. I probably end up taking the damaged sail panel out and use it as a mold for a new panel. Too much work but what the hell....
Temple, Texas.
I told you that the red one I have is yours, just need to find a company willing to ship it to Puerto Rico. All of the regular ones I have approached in my area balked when I mentioned the size and the freight companies gave me the run around. We're looking into a way to box them that hopefully will protect them more, but we won't know for sure if it will work until we go by our local UPS store and bounce the idea off of them. If it will work, I'm going to see if they'll let me ship to PR as well. Believe me or don't, it makes no difference to me. The reason I haven't sold it already is because I promised it to you, that's why it's been sitting there. Trust me, if I could have gotten it to you any other easier way, you would have had it by now.
At least your honest about it. I have been searching for one for almost three years now. Problem is I live in Puerto Rico. There have been a lot of promises but none of these guys had the "cojones" to tell me why they couldn't ship the thing. They just invented stupid stories or just stop communicating with me. No explanation...none.
Still my car looks good but i don't use it much these days. I probably end up taking the damaged sail panel out and use it as a mold for a new panel. Too much work but what the hell....
Still my car looks good but i don't use it much these days. I probably end up taking the damaged sail panel out and use it as a mold for a new panel. Too much work but what the hell....
You'll find the answer in the very first post on page one. It's not so much what you use, it's the prep before you use it. Make sure the bottom on the panel is properly prepped and you'll be fine.
What type of primer?
Again, go check the first post on page one. It has all that information posted. It tells you that you should use an epoxy primer on the underside as is called for in the TSB. Even when using a 93-97 panel, it's better to be safe than sorry.
That first post was years ago. Trying to make sure nothing has changed over the years or if there is a better way.
