Rollbar Padding
 

After removing the seatbelt hanger bolt and washers how does one remove the rollbar padding without prying and possibly breaking it like I did?

You have to remove the little vinyl plugs that cover up the screws that hold the pad to the roll bar.

The padding on the sides is also held on by the little "coat hooks". The general idea is that you find every screw that might be going through the padding, and remove it.

The padding on the top part is not fun to deal with. Some of the screws can be a real PITA to R&R. I hear that you can deal with the rear window OK with that in place, but haven't tried it myself. Of course, that's only good if your goal is re-doing the rear window...

--DD

Having trouble with roll bar pad too. Looked over the shop manual photo and it looks like the latch stays with the basket handle. Screws are outbut still won't budge. Starting to think DAPO glued the damn thing on...

Oh and the window comes right out with that pad still attached, don't forget the two little rectangular rubber pads on the bottom, embedded in the butyl stuck to the car. You do have to take off the top mount of the seatbelt off too for the sides ones. My buddy that was helping me laughed. The thing that should be hard to take off practically falls off(window), and the one with all the screws out won't even move. Getting the camp rebuild for the pad, so just need it nice enough for a core charge. The ones on the side were in nice shape, in the shade of the basket handle they did not take the beating the one on top did

There may be extra screws right in/around the latches. I didn't have to deal with those on my car, but IIRC when we swapped the parts over on Jenny's car they were still there.

--DD