So been an interesting 36 hours. There is always perils in being an early adopter of new products.
Despite my best efforts the two fixed panels behind the front doors just didn't quite line up like I thought they should and the front doors closed harder than necessary rubbing the bottom of the aforementioned panels. Also the rear doors didn't quite follow the ROPS contour quite right.
Now all eight panels came pre-assembled with the bulb seals fully attached around the perimeter and rigid door frames. As seen here right out of the boxes:
It then dawned on me the subtle bends in the poly panels rear doors and the fixed panels between the front and rear doors were exactly opposite to what they should be. Surely they weren't assembled backwards, lo and behold they were. So I spent 4 hours disassembling what seemed like 80 4mm bolts, pulling off all the bulb seals and swapping the seals to the opposing panels and putting it all back together.
Viola! it all fit the machine and each other perfectly and the front door binding ceased allowed them to close as expected.
In defense of the workers at
@SuperATV who assembled these early hard cab enclosure kits, the panels are covered with the protective blue film that obscures the bends in the poly that make it all form fitting. I spent 6 hours second guessing myself thinking I was just not doing it correctly. Glad to find out for once, it wasn't me.
Now I explain all this in case some other poor bastards get a kit pre-assembled backwards like mine, 4 panels correctly and 4 panels transverse from what they should be.
Thing is you don't know until you get to the last steps of the instructions to see they don't line up.
Example: This picture is top front rear door where it meets the fixed panels. It juts out approximately 1".
After swapping the panels it now lines up and hugs the ROPS as such:
