Westfalia Roof - Reinforcements?

[vdub wannabe]

Hi all

I'm currently restoring a 1968 Westi bay.

Currently looking at the pop top, roof hinged at front. Cut the rotting canvass out on Friday afternoon (and had a few fights with breeding flies! Big ones too, about 100 buggers)

The wood is all rotten, so my question(s) are as follows:

-How do I join new wood to the fibre glass roof (what glue/bond would people choose)?
-Has any one reinforced the roof to bolt a roof rack directly to it to carry surfboards? I was thinking of aluminium extrusions, about 10mm thick.
-If I was to reinforce the roof/fibre glass pop top do I then need to reinf the hinges above the drivers cab? :?

Any help would be good on this,

Thanks in advance.

Greg

 

[birchyman]

use sikkaflex or any good generic PU glue to stick your wood in try to clamp it while it dries
ive known it take a few days if its really cold

 

[Araon]

Re the rack speak to slim adi on here he works for Design 21 and I know they built a hinged rack affair for a Dormy I think, they like one offs and pricing is really good

http://www.design-21.co.uk/content2.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

not sure I'd be too happy just bolting through the fibreglass and using a bit of extruded ali