yer nuts are loose Loren.

it is not that hard, my tips are:

- small step stool even if you are tall
-10 mm gearhead type wrench on nut on inside
- top rear bolt is the trickiest, but often the dropped nut and washer end up being caught by pop top seal or roof gutter.

Did you get some stainless truss head bolts or are you going a different route (as I did)? Don't forget to double check length of bolts to make sure they do not interfere with hinge mechanism upon roof closing.

alistair

On 2012-10-09, at 10:48 PM, Loren Busch wrote:

> Getting ready to replace the bolts that attach the pop top to the hinges at
> the rear, four on each side.  There appears/feels like there are nuts that
> those bolts go into, not threaded into the hinges themselves.  So, are the
> nuts captive nuts (attached to the hinges) or are the just a nut and lock
> washer back there?  Why the question?  It's going to be easy if captive
> nuts, more complicated if trying to juggle a wrench blind on the back side
> and the screwdriver in the other.