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Technical => Exteriors and Interiors => Topic started by: atk1 on September 09, 2008, 08:29:29 AM
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Hey, Im keen to change the roof profile on my LWB to the SWB look. Example in picture. Any tips, tricks, ideas to add would be appreciated.
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it looks good, you could get two SWB beddys and cut the roof off that
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Yeah, I dont pick up my LWB till next week so Im just getting a heads up for now, Im hoping I can just lower the original one with abit added to make up for the lenght I guess
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flippen heck i just wrote an essay and it got deleted bummer!!!!!
yeh looks fantastic.
the short of it was..
ive wanted to do this for like 2 years.. would love to help if your not too far away!!
here is how to do it..
you need 2 swb roofs.. so you will need to seperate them from their vans via drilling out spot welds..
then cut them and over lap a join in the middle somewhere to be the same length as a lwb roof.
obviously you need to remove the lwb roof.. then once you have your new fabricated swb/ lwb roof you can fit the new roof and fill up all the spot welds again. sounds easy huh!!
did a test recently. 40 mins to drill out 40 spot welds..
342 spot welds holding the roof to the gutter rails on swb
and extra 25 each side on a lwb.. = 392 on a lwb roof.
so to drill out all the spot welds on 2 swbs and 1 lwb it wold be 1076 spot welds equating to via my tests, about 18 hours work.
thats just to get the roofs seperated.. then cut join and weld the new roof back on.
sounds like a fair job but if you were able to borrow 18 people it would only take an hour to drill out all the spt welds!!!
hope this one works arggg annoyed!!!
ben
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yea I know what you mean it happened to me yesterday
maybe thers a time frame for writing replies?
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i think ill refer it to shane..
2 people posted stuff inbetween me typing and posting.. maybe that had somehing to do with it.
ben
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arrrr buga! Nowdays I always do a "select all" then "copy" if Ive written heaps. Thanks for that info Ben! Im not too far...New Zealand.
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new zealand!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
far out!!! ok when you planning on doing the mod?
only problem is i cant bring over a roof or 2 with me lol
sounds lke an adventure!!!
ben
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did you kjust do that in photoshop man??
thats looks flippen great!!!!!!!!!!!
ben
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Yeah just quickly in Photoshop
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That does look pretty neat with the lower roof but it would be a bit of a mission. Might have to have a think about it for the next set of mods when I run out of the current work list.
Nice van by the way. ;)
Garry.
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Seems a lot of spot welds, and don't forget the glue used ...
I'd be more inclined to drill the SWB roof's from underneath (or chisel and grind) and drill the LWB from above. Then (the reason for this) just hire a spot welder and spot weld the roofs back on and just mig across the join (which should be in the middle as the roofs taper)
This would save countless hours grinding up all the plug welds (1076?). just spot, seal and paint
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whys doesnt anyone want a SWB with a LWB roof :D
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good idea busy!!
yeh glue yes i remember now.. thanks for the memory jog..
"whys doesnt anyone want a SWB with a LWB roof " - because you may as well put a iceream van roof on or something crazy like that that looks 10 times uglyer than the lwb roof already does!!
ben
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don`t forget the roof struts as they will be different hights as well
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Choice guys, thanks for all the advice, getting excited!
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i wouldnt get too excited.. it could take as long as a weeks work to do this mod.. lol
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A week? I started a weeks worth of work 3 months ago and still haven't finished. Just seems to drag on.........and on...........and on.
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haha.. always the way..
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Hey my van was only a 3 week project
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haha funny.. which van?
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whilst looking for a photo for Joel I came across this one as your all chatin about the roof thingy thought it might be of interest.
(http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x234/craigc327/extralong-1.jpg)
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wow nice strech . now a double set of doubles at the back and you ready for a waterbed ;D
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hey atk1. hows this mod coming along? you still going ahead with it?
cheers
ben
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My wifee has renamed Borrie to Baluga.....she reckons it looks like a baluga whale... :-\ :'( :-*
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Hey Ben, van is coming along "steadily". All panel work is done and gets painted next week. Sorting out brand new glue-in type sliding windows. As for the roof...I will do it at some stage but I just want to drive it asap so have put it on hold.