jsimmonstx
Member
I got a MM 4-point rollbar with the welded harness bar and optional diagonal bar. It took us all day yesterday, but we managed to get the rollbar situated. I had watched the Late Model Restoration youtube video, so I had a kind of idea of what to expect. If you're not going to be putting the interior pieces back in your car, you're pretty much golden, and it should only take you a few hours to install the bar.
Otherwise, expect to spend a full day (and pushing into the early evening) getting things situated. Here are some tips and info:
0) You need a helper. This is NOT a one-person job.
1) Your most important tool is "the big hammer". We needed a sledge hammer to coerce the front rollbar feet into an acceptable position. The only hole that lined up with no issue was the outer-most one on the vertical part of the foot.
2) You're going to need the rear tires and rear wheel well liners off the car so you can drill holes for the rear support plate.
3) The top of the rollbar may be in constant contact with the headliner. Mine is.
4) For added structural rigidity, you can optionally well on a tab that bolts the bar to the B-Pillar, but since the rollbar doesn't come that way (and it doesn't appear as if MM offers that as an option, fabrication of the tab is required on your part.
5) If you have a bad case of gas, warning your helper ahead of time is not only fair, butt it's the decent and humane thing to do.
Now that we've done the fittings/cutting, we're ready to send the bar parts off for power-coating on Monday, and should be able to perform the final install by Tuesday/Wednesday. Pictures will be forthcoming at that point.
Otherwise, expect to spend a full day (and pushing into the early evening) getting things situated. Here are some tips and info:
0) You need a helper. This is NOT a one-person job.
1) Your most important tool is "the big hammer". We needed a sledge hammer to coerce the front rollbar feet into an acceptable position. The only hole that lined up with no issue was the outer-most one on the vertical part of the foot.
2) You're going to need the rear tires and rear wheel well liners off the car so you can drill holes for the rear support plate.
3) The top of the rollbar may be in constant contact with the headliner. Mine is.
4) For added structural rigidity, you can optionally well on a tab that bolts the bar to the B-Pillar, but since the rollbar doesn't come that way (and it doesn't appear as if MM offers that as an option, fabrication of the tab is required on your part.
5) If you have a bad case of gas, warning your helper ahead of time is not only fair, butt it's the decent and humane thing to do.
Now that we've done the fittings/cutting, we're ready to send the bar parts off for power-coating on Monday, and should be able to perform the final install by Tuesday/Wednesday. Pictures will be forthcoming at that point.
