Rollover Bar Padding

[little jago]

Looking for padding for rollover bar and hood frame can any boady help where to buy or any spare for a price kit is an 86 model

[gerrydoe]

Hi there littlejago
Re the roll bar padding, I'm going to do this on mine so I've been looking around to see what's available. I notice in one of the mags that Midland Performance Centre 01922 625903 sell it. I've also found padding on varioius sites on the web, usually via Google. To my mind it ain't cheap, but there again I'm tighter than the perverbial duck's arse It's usually around £7-50 per metre and sold in metre lengths and various colours, I think we need about 5 peices. I have 'experimented' with camping mat, but that springs back and doesn't hold its shape, so it has to be taped at regular intervals then covered with vinyl etc.
Re your hood frame perhaps another member can give you the measurements and you could get one made up as a last resort ? (sorry 'can't be more helpful on that one)
Best of Luck
Gerry

[Dave the Steam]

Hi,

I put 28mm central heating pipe insulation, the biggest I could find, round mine. It doesn't meet the other side of the bar, but I put this at the top.

Try builders merchants etc.

Tape it with self amalgamating tape, insulation tape goes sticky after a year or so.

It isn't too expensive either.

[dave36]

rollbar padding - buy normal heating insulation and cover it with vinyl available from any good furniture materials supply (Dunelm do it for £4.50/M) the vinyl can be fixed with velcro, which can easily be glued or machine stitched on - with a little practice it can look very professional!
hood rail - I have a spare front one, so it is an easy engineering job to replicate that for the rear one, the only issue then is the length of the stays, it's dark now so I can't measure them, but I do believe that some of the Jago instructions detail the height and position of the rear stays.