Mustang Convertible Top Install (Part 2)

[@TruckThisGarage]

Here’s the removal video below 👇 kzbin.info/www/bejne/iIbIYXahosp3b9Usi=MOR3A-NpCERXRF2E

[@DieselTrain_14]

Looks good 👍

[@TruckThisGarage]

Thanks

[@TruckThisGarage]

Yes removed the spring first before I snaked it through the channel. Then re-attached the spring. I ended up using different springs as well. I broke the ones that came with the new cable. I think I have a KZbin short video of that posted.

[@TruckThisGarage]

What should we fix next? 🤷‍♂️. Do you own a 2006 v6 convertible Mustang? What else needs replaced 😂

[@rocketj2835]

@@TruckThisGarage mine's 2011 V6. It stayed waterlogged for so long that it's got lots damage. Plus airbag light. Plus evap OBD codes. And a constant clacking sound in the AC vents. And the frame that holds the cabin air filter is missing. It's got rust in the interior bolts that hold the front seats in, and rusty coated under carriage that needs remove & protect. Thank you Sir, you're most kind. - Bob

[@TruckThisGarage]

@@rocketj2835 thanks for the comment. If my vivisection helped at all that’s awesome

[@rocketj2835]

Wait please. Did you switch it up, so that the spring & cable are connected by a white string to the fishing tool? Took the ziptie out? It seems like you went right from "this isn't going to work" .. then fast motion & loud music & blurred spool of string .. to having the string coming out the back with the spring and cable attached to the string, ready to trim off the string? I take it you did this: took the zip tie off where it was connecting the spring & cable to the fishing tool .. then put string into the spring & fishing tool .. then pulled the fishing tool, string attached through the channel with the spring & cable? I firmly agree: none of any of the videos show the fishing of the spring & cable! So please help me understand what you did, please. Thanks.

[@TruckThisGarage]

Yes that sounds about right. I snaked the metal tool through the channel and then pulled the new cable backwards towards the rear. The white plastic pull I tried first was TOO LARGE. It would fit in the channel notch.

[@rocketj2835]

@@TruckThisGarage thanks so much. I'll be back with what happened my initial failures, until I got real like you did and bought a snake. Found a great one on Amazon for $8.95, a reviewer said it's good for top drains too. I appreciate your Caddyshack-kinda humor. Got me to loosen up a little about my own puzzlement about what the hell I was doing.

[@TruckThisGarage]

@@rocketj2835 Awesome 👏