Actually, what Joy couldn't do was that last little bit of locking the cross bar in place. She actually was able to raise the roof a fair amount of the way... In her case I think the addition of struts will allow her to raise the poptop AND lock it in place...if the weight is less.
On Feb 8, 2007, at 7:56 PM, Joy Hecht wrote: > My plan, BTW, is - hopefully with Kim's technical assistance - to > put in > struts. I actually tried lifting his poptop and even _with_ the > struts I > couldn't do it! But I'm not going to have anything like the weight > on mine > that he has on his. |
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