However, when installing it again, I stumbled upon some strange things, which you can read about in this essay... It can't have been mounted correctly at the previous restoration.
1. How am I supposed to mount the "side bolts"? I have three bolts at the rear end of the canvas top that is mounted with bolts and nuts (and very long fingers and a lot of patience..). But for the side mountings there is just big holes in the sheet metal. Is there any way to get inside here? Or should it be metal screws, really really large ones?
2. The cable. It was mounted in a hole (right in pic) where I suspect it should only run through and be mounted in the brackets further back (to the left in the pic). Correct? The cable is to short though so it needs to be replaced. Before I removed the top the velcro didn't really close neatly. There was kind of a gap behind the quarter windows. I hope replacing the cable will fix this issue?
3. Water drain. I am very confused where the water should go and what kind of rubber part should be leading the water to freedom. When I removed the mechanism I found two rubber tubes just sitting there on the floor, long enough to lead the water into the sills but not any longer. Strange, but perhaps the Italian way to do it. Later I found out, through this great forum, that the hoses should lead all the way through the sills and out underneath the car.
Does this work? Aren't the water tubes folded in all impossible ways when the roof is down?
What is this has-been rubber thing that was mounted to the window water drain channel(bottom of image)? Can't I mount a new tube directly to the window drain channel? And should these pieces fit together somehow? Does the has-been things at the bottom of the pic have anything to do with the new stop rubber at the top of the pic. I wanted to order the broken ones (item 4 in the pic), but I got the stop rubber for the B-pillars instead. Looks like the stop rubber has some kind of mounting for a tube as well?
