Hi Doug,
I measured my windscreen on chassis 21934. At the center, the bottom
of chrome frame to top of chrome frame is 10 1/4; the exposed glass is 8
5/8".
The three-bow canvas tops fit both the side-mount and centre-mount
wiper windscreens.
In the parts book, the windscreen changed at chassis 22315 when the
wiper motor was moved to the centre. The "hood complete" changed at
chassis 20696 when it became three-bow.
Since the chassis numbers at the change points are not the same, I
appears that both canvas hoods will fit all windscreens. The sidecurtains
must be the correct model for the hood, though.
You wrote that your windscreen measured 9 5/8. That's different from
mine. It will be interesting to see what they measure on other cars. I
suspect that the sidecurtains would work; they would have to be set to
top of windscreen side bracket so that the hood would clamp down to them,
and any extra size would be positioned lower on the door.
What is the measurement of the pins for the hood? Are the
measurements the same on both windscreens? Mine are 38 inches
centre-to-centre.
Bob
On Tue, 18 Jul 2006 16:56:12 +1200 "Douglas Ormrod"
<Douglas.Ormrod@neurological.org.nz> writes:
> Hi T People
>
> My TD is a 1952 chassis # 11368 with a two bow top.
>
> I am having major windscreen problems. Car is all trimmed ready for
> a new bespoke hood to be made. However, when we tried to fit up the
> original screen it would not sit right - car has been rolled at some
point and
> scuttle brackets were out of shape. We were working on trying to
straighten
> things out when a complete second hand TD screen became available in
Australia
> and I bought it thinking this might be the simpler option.
>
> However, I have now discovered thee new screen and the original are
> different; the one that came with my car is 9 5/8 high at the centre
and the
> one I bought is 11 1/4. Also the new screen has the windscreen motor
> mounting holes in the centre while the original was mounted at one
side. I see from
> the Moss catalogue that the wiper positioned changed at car 22315 so I
guess
> the original screen is correct for my car.
>
> So question one is: did the screen height change at the same time as
> the wiper moved or has my original screen been shortened?
>
> Question two is: can I fit the later screen to my car with the two
> bow top? If yes will I need to get new side curtain frames?
>
> I guess my fall back position is to try the scuttle mounts that came
> with the screen I bought in Australia with my original screen frame.
>
> Cheers
>
> Douglas
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