Surrey Roof improvements

[bobfather]

My Surrey Roof never fitted properly and Roger Morris did not accept responsibility for this, blaming my car rather than his design.

Bad gaps at the rear and a large twist in the side flaps





The problem is that the rear hard section twists upwards even with slight tensioning. To overcome this I replaced the rear rose joints with swing eye bolts and a sliver of shim to protect the contact surfaces. This forces the rotation to occur only in the required axis.




And to finish off, the threaded posts were unfinished (hacksaw marks) so I fitted some M8 nylock dome nuts



Nice fit now




Parts from ebay

[bobfather]

pb450 said:

OP, I'm considering one of these, just doing all the research.

Do you have a linky for the ebay bits please, in case I follow the same route.

These are the swing eyes ( Swing Eyes) the price is artificially high because he is currently out of stock, normal price is a couple of quid. You'll need to buy some M8 threaded bar too. The nylock domeheads are here Domeheads)

[bobfather]

ebay swing eye bolts should be back in stock in the next 2-3 weeks. He's had an unusually large number of orders recently, got to wonder whether PH caused a run on his stock

[bobfather]

threespins said:

Does anyone living in Yorkshire have a Surrey Roof? I would really like to have a look at one prior to purchase.

I'm near Redcar if that's any good

[bobfather]

[bobfather]

I'm with Bomb on that one, the value is in enabling roof off driving when touring. The down side for me was that Roger Morris did not want to take responsibility for the poor alignment of the fabric glued to the rear section. For £500 I would have expected some help but as you can see from this thread I had to engineer a solution myself, thankfully others with the same issue have followed along and fixed there's too.

[bobfather]

Swing eyes are available again

ebay swing eyes