I managed to do a similar repair with the help of Klaus at Top Hydraulics. It's not a hard job if you're good with mechanical things. I was an aircraft hydraulics tech in the Marines way back in the day so it was nothing new to me. The hardest thing for me was getting the tonneau latch bolted back down. There are two black plastic stickers covering access holes at the center of the top's frame where it lays on the tonneau cover. You have to pry the top fabric up and peel off those stickers to get a socket wrench on the bolt heads. I spent three hours trying to start those bolts before I found the access holes. I suggested to Klaus that he should include that in his videos but he said the videos were too time consuming to make it worthwhile for him to redo. Maybe someone here will see this and save themselves a few hours time.
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