Not sure I will undertake to do this job myself but the documentation of your experience is likely to be very helpful to someone who does - and it might be me, so thank you for your postings. Often times its knowing what didn't work is more important.
One aspect of this restoration that I hope you can post about is installing the trim pieces around that window. When I disassembled my top, I had a lot of difficulty with the horizontal trim strip (can't recall there might have been 2) just underneath the quarter window glass. If you have a chance to document installing that (or those) that would really be helpful, as was this post!. Thanks in advance. Lee