madcowvert wrote:dose the manual also show you how to change the top?
yeah sort of.. it's a little more in detail about how the bows work and the rams and things.. but they do get into the "top cover assembly", etc...
It's not exactly a direct lesson on doing it.. but you can get enough out of it to do the work.
Replacing the top is very difficult and time consuming... Not because it's technically or mechanically difficult, but rather because it's so much work get all the fabric to lay flat, tighten up, seal and staple, etc... It's really the uphostry work that is hard.
Think of it like redoing a seat.. it's very easy to pull old fabric off and put new fabric on.. but to get it to seem in and look nice and lay flat without wrinkles and stuff... that's very hard.