Rear top fasteners on Spyder

[peteracs]

Hi All

I installed my new top finally yesterday after it sitting in the house for many years.... Not my finest hour and would get a must do better on the school report, but I think acceptable.

The issue I have is that when I tension it the clips will latch, but instantly unlatch on release, do I really need to have the small leather strap to hold them or am I doing something wrong?

Peter

[Hawk]

I don't think that there is a difference between S1 and S2 hoods and that being the case, the leather strap has no bearing on the mechanism. 

I always found it easier to clip the roof from the outside.  Lift the hood up with door open, locate latch to mount on roof, apply pressure to hood at hood / roof joint and then push back of latch to locate. 

And repeat on other side. 

[peteracs]

Hi

Yep done all that, the latches go fully home, but then immediately spring open, all very frustrating....

Peter

[Hawk]

Very strange - maybe there is too much tension on the hood / it has not stretched into place yet?