There was a dude named Froggy who was `going to' with a Westy top he`d bought. I don`t think it ever happened and he bought another Westy bus, but I believe he`s now packed it in and sold the bus. I`ve taken my roof off spot weld by spotweld and replaced with a donor also drilled off spotweld by spotweld, are you detecting a theme here ??? :lol: Carefull around the roof at the windscreen. The spots are inside the window aperture and at the corners it`s brazed just above the screen posts so take your time there :? Once you have your old roof panel off, you`ll find out how much of the `subframe ' has disintergrated as well, this is like a two part box section that is slightly squashed to form a parallelagram with a protrusion at opposite corners where the two halves overlap and are `spotwelded' together. This all becomes obvious as you pull it to pieces but it isn`t obvious when it`s a tangled mess off rust and holes :shock: . Also , various converters chopped out bits of bracing here and bits there all over the place, might be a nice touch to replace these at the same time, they`re welded (spots) to the subframe and the roof panel sits over these on a couple of beads of seam sealer, original was big thick black gooey stuff, still gooey 40 years on :shock: . All in all the job is simple enough,it`s a one man job really except for the boredom of drilling / filling spotwelds. HIGHLY recommend Dewalt extreme gold bits for sorting them out, a bit pricey but they saved hours if not days of time, got mine from the gas supply place. Practice drilling out your spots on your donor roof as you`re not worried about the subframe on this, then when you do it on your roof, you`ll have the knack of not drilling right through every time, as the more you do this (drilling through the lot) the more repairs you`ll have. As soon as you start, all will become clear. :shock: One of the big pains in the ass was grinding the spotweld / repairs in the gutter, in the end I rested both elbows on the gutters and ran the grinder useing the tip of the wheel to knock em down. Bought myself an air file, but to be honest was not impressed with it other than for cleaning out the gutters. It`s not recommended I`m sure, but it is a lot easier to rubdown the insides of the gutters on your donor before you drill out the spots and before you fit it too the bus, but if you is outside it`d rust before you got tit sorted. Proper longwinded job but nothing more than patience required ohh and earplugs :mrgreen:
Ozziedog,,,,,,,,,,,, Drilling /filling. Drilling / filling. Drilling / filling. Drilling / filling, You get the idea :lol:
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