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Showing posts with label zipper. Show all posts
Showing posts with label zipper. Show all posts

Sunday, August 21, 2011

Fix Your Jeep Wrangler Soft Top with Fishing Line

We have a Jeep Wrangler. It's great, but it has a little age on it. It has a soft top, and the back window zipper broke. The weather was warm at the time, so my husband just drove it without a back window. That was fine, except when it rained. The air conditioner wasn't very effective on really hot days, either.

A new top for the Jeep would be really pricey, and my husband didn't have a need to remove the window regularly. So, I picked up some fishing line and used it, along with an embroidery needle, to sew the window onto the Jeep top.

I started in the lower right and worked my way around, just looping the line/thread around the zipper to hold it.


It doesn't look great, but the outer flap covers it nicely, so it really doesn't matter:


However, we did want the ability to open and close the left side so we could add and remove larger things from the back of the Jeep. So, I stopped sewing in the upper left corner, and picked up some black velcro.


The velcro is officially "new sew," meaning it is self-adhesive. I'm pretty sure it wouldn't stick very long on the back of a Jeep, out in the weather, though. So, I used the fishing line to sew the velcro pieces down the left edges.

Again, it isn't the prettiest job around, and it doesn't really have to be: it gets the job done. The flaps cover the velcro and stitches nicely, and so far it's working great!