Actually, what Joy couldn't do was that last little bit of locking
the cross bar in place. She actually was able to raise the roof a
fair amount of the way... In her case I think the addition of struts
will allow her to raise the poptop AND lock it in place...if the
weight is less.

On Feb 8, 2007, at 7:56 PM, Joy Hecht wrote:

> My plan, BTW, is - hopefully with Kim's technical assistance - to
> put in
> struts.  I actually tried lifting his poptop and even _with_ the
> struts I
> couldn't do it!  But I'm not going to have anything like the weight
> on mine
> that he has on his.