Drip rail repair q's

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3jvj

3jvj

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I've been sitting on a spare roof for a year now. Now that I'm not going to sell it I'm starting my priority list. What's the best way to go about doing this? Has anybody "frenched" the rail and got rid of the rail altogether? Can it be done with a wire feed buzz box? Thanks-JJ

I'm also entertaining making this a convertible. Not a hack job but a removable roof that will bolt back on. Anybody done this yet? I figure the body line right below the window would be good. Take 1/4 inch out and box the open sections. It would give me a chance to dump a couple of gallons of por15 into the body as well. Thoughts?
 
Webasto out of Germany have a humongous sun roof that would cover /open nearly 70/80% of the roof to the sun when folded.........might check them out; lots of older German luxury vehicles had them......might could scrounge one in a junkyard;

Lou
 
I have thought about going safari style. I figure I could make one good winter top. If I have enough left over I could make a safari style top for the summer (snap on over say 85% of the roof leaving about 8 inches in from the rail). I'm pretty handy with a stitcher and snap gun; probably make my own out of duck canvas.
 
Sunroof

Lou,

This is a great idea. At one time I was debating putting in just such a sunroof, but I was a little worried that cutting a huge hole in the roof would leave you with some integrity problems. What is the best way to reinforce the roof and support the body?

Ryan.

n2666s said:
Webasto out of Germany have a humongous sun roof that would cover /open nearly 70/80% of the roof to the sun when folded.........might check them out; lots of older German luxury vehicles had them......might could scrounge one in a junkyard;

Lou
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Sun Roof

I looked into that sunroof, unless they have a new model , its not that big. I think two of these would fit on the roof of a 55. Ryan, Surefit can install this, $1000.00. Big money but very cool. They want to see the truck without a headliner in to see if it would work.

Lou
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the Webasto's I have seen looked a lot larger than this one; but then again there probably were different sizes; fellow out in San Rafael CA has one in his BMW and it is the closest thing to a convertible w/o the headaches; there is a Webasto Germany website that has more info on them; thought it might be a better solution than chopping the top by maintaining the structural rigidity of the truck

Lou
 
I was thinking of trying to see if a mini cooper's sunroof would be adaptable to a pig. Those are pretty big. Granted it is a small car but the sunroof is probably 80% of the roof.

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