Remving hard top

[rkettner]

what you have looks bojanged

[jeffnhiscars]

I pulled my hardtop off today and for the life of me I don't know what you havegoing on there. I'm thinking you can remove the speaker panels with the hardtop on then perhaps you can unbolt the body side of the pin socket and better deal with this once its off the car.

[bastianshaw]

90 degrees or 1/4 turn releases the post. It was originally a double nut @ 11mm size on the narrow top post. BMW sells a tool for the larger, lower adjustment nut.

I'm also in Walnut Creek, with a hardtop on our 87. You need to see anything or want to see our top go on & off, let me know.

that would be pretty helpfull actually pm sent

[siggy]

90 degrees or 1/4 turn releases the post. It was originally a double nut @ 11mm size on the narrow top post. BMW sells a tool for the larger, lower adjustment nut.

I'm also in Walnut Creek, with a hardtop on our 87. You need to see anything or want to see our top go on & off, let me know.

[reelizmpro]

Cut it or shave down flat spots until you can get a wrench on it. Perhaps there are flat spots already on it? Must have been some way to torque it down. Try taking off that flap without breaking it and see if you can remove it without breaking anything.

[bastianshaw]

So it's not rotating off. Any ideas guys!

[bastianshaw]

damn just checked realoem looks like that assembly is #2 and $125!?

[bastianshaw]

i tried prying up on the bolt above the washer but its not moving? I hope noone threaded it in somehow w no way to unscrew the bolt

[Todd Black 88]

is that like a threaded nut you unscrew then just lift top off?

That nut you see just sets the pin height. You just set that once. The top of the pin turns and locks into the recepticle on the car body.

What you have...........I have no clue.

[DRTSRFR]

You don't have to "unscrew" it. it rotates about 3/4 of a turn and unlocks the pin.

Does your assembly look like it's screwed in in any way?

Is the top actually locked down back there? Or did somebody put some sort of pin in there that doesn't lock?

I don't know everything about these tops other than what I have to draw from on mine.

[bastianshaw]

I've never seen anything like that...

It should look like this...

is that like a threaded nut you unscrew then just lift top off?

[DRTSRFR]

I've never seen anything like that...

It should look like this...

[bastianshaw]

How do I get this off?


I was expecting a nut?