Miata Mailing List: April 1994, Message #76
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   From: Doug Hagerman 
Subject: roofs, tonneau covers, and oil temp gauges
   Date: Tue, 5 Apr 1994 13:19:00 -0400

Hello.

Yes, there is a quite lengthy roof setup section in the repair manual,
way too long to type in here. It's really very complicated and I bet
that your latches were out of adjustment when your roof came loose.

Re tonneau covers, Santa Claus brought me one this past winter and I
put in on this past weekend--the revival of a "tradition" from when I
had an MGB in college in Colorado. Of course, there were many occassions
when the MG had a foot of snow in it, too.

While it's just about as fast to put up the top as it
is to snap on the tonneau cover, if you use the regular roof cover when
you put down the roof it's going to take you quite a bit longer to get going.
I think the tonneau cover should be the normal state of a car like this
and the roof is only for winter...we'll see whether I still believe this
next time it rains...

I haven't heard from anybody on how to connect an oil temperature gauge
sensor, so I guess I'm on my own...still hoping for ideas, though...

Doug.