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« Last post by phill on February 01, 2020, 02:40:46 PM »
I replaced the roof on my first van back in the 90's due to the rust in the front gutter, i was pretty lucky to get one from a wrecker that was rust free and still had part of the side walls and front pillars on it the wrecker had cut 4 inches underneath the gutter the hole way around the van
what i did was brace the vertical internal van braces and front pillars together in all directions also the front pillars need to be braced low enough for your cut
I then drilled out all the spot welds that hold the side walls onto the gutter, ground the welds on the vertical internal braces and door pillars then marked a line around the front pillars and cut, you then should be able to remove the roof from the gutter up
Then did the same on the second had roof as part of the walls were still connected to the gutter, ensuring that the cut line on the front pillars was the same, put the roof onto the van and was pretty happy with how it sat there and all lined up, plug welded the spot weld holes onto my now new gutter welded all the door and front pillars
Hope this helps
Cheers Phil
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« Last post by wendyh on January 30, 2020, 06:52:08 AM »
Have a look at the two post I found for you....there is a search
Bar at the top right hand corner of the page...
Hope this helps 😊
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« Last post by wendyh on January 30, 2020, 06:44:42 AM »
Sorry Worzel but 'roof replacement' and 'simple' really are a contradiction in terms. 
Yup, that´s why I started this thread.
I´m pretty sure I can find the arse-about-tit way of doing it.
I am coming to the conclusion that I have to do it proprely, but not perfectly....
for example.
I got the bedford home and found all the rust, (see arse-about-face, should have found the rust a lot earlier)
Benny gave me an old roof for patches, but the patches needed patches.
So ben sold me an almost perfect roof, with a sun roof(perspex sheet)
so I cut a patch out of the old spare roof to patch the new spare roof,
then out comes the welder and the buckles start popping up and down,
then out comes the grinder and cut it out and try more spots and gussets and get it ok (excellent compared to the first, and just ok really).
Grind and sand and bog (and then rain)
Just going for smooth.......
But from here I saw gonna.........
Tack in a few more roof supports to make lining the ceiling easier,
Cut old roof off verry close to the gutters,
Remove lip of roof that is in the gutters by winding around a pailr of pliers, and grinding spots to weaken them,
Wire bursh gutters to see if they are ok,
cut up old roof and put in tip pile,
open up repair above windscreen to examine,
who knows what next, hopefully just wire brush and paint,
cut out rotten gutters and repaiar with new steel section,
remove new roof from old gutters with spot weld drill,
put roof aside and use any gutter sections that I need,
put new roof on,
weld spots,
fully weld to seal?
Fishoil,penetrol,paint, whatever, just loads of it probably with a brush,
then have a look at those other bits, floor, walls etc..
any suggestions or tips would be appreciated
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« Last post by wendyh on January 30, 2020, 06:36:58 AM »
There are some guys on Facebook who have made a few comments.....
Quoted..
there was hot rod builder..on the old bedford site that showed pics of his roof removal...he welded cross braces across the van to the floor..much like a builder does when bracing a form.. as he said when roof removed van loses its structural integrity...the cfs vans i did...were campervan models and replacement rootf was only a partial fill as most of roofn gutters remained
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Hello Guys! I have read through the forum and still I don't know how to remove the roof? I have an old van my friend bought different equipments and tools from the best international shipping rates and I am still confused what should I do for that?please guide me.
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« Last post by Marishka on January 27, 2020, 07:01:25 PM »
Sounds like he got what was comming to him!
No simpathy from me im afraid!
Karma!
Sorry to hear about your van.
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Sounds terrible. Sorry to hear about your van . Got a few pyromaniacs on the loose in Australia , real low life criminals . All the best to 2020 . Cheers Frank
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« Last post by wendyh on December 24, 2019, 07:40:07 AM »
Ahhh that's not good to hear...
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« Last post by doujoy on December 05, 2019, 07:09:16 AM »
Hi to all,
Sorry for being missing in action for these last few months but I got my old Bedford CF set on fire and the same week my computer died, the guy who set fire to my Bedford was seen on my CCTV but the police said it was not clear enough.
However two weeks later he set fire to a supermarket but choose the paint section to light it up and died in the blaze, so been very hard at work trying to get my old Bedford back on the road, just need to find a speedo cable for it now and she will be road fit once again.
doujoy
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