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cheers cazz hopefully gonna start the welding this week weather permitting Ill take photos as I go ....

ye ive been noticing more white smoke now its mild but as said as soon as it warms up smoke goes

Afternoon folks hope all are well....


Now then my 1.9DG has started belching out white smoke when she starts once it gets warm no smoke now I know all cars etc get a bit of steam on a cold morning et c but this seems a bit more than morning steam? any ideas water level is fine etc

hello folks looking for someone to do some welding for me down in cornwall can anyone recommend someone decent.... need a few panels replacing and a few patches

Ok starting taking inside trim off o see what was the score with removing the roof it apears there are some serious rust issues on the surrounding roof supports

OK re measured today and yep i measured wrong so all good..... just need some good weather....

no rush cazz i have to fix this problem first

Ok folks will try and post a few pics later it seems who ever converted my van to a high top cut the roof right back to the side supporting structure so my roof aperture is to big for the westy tent...... only by 10mm, so its going to be out with the welder and add some 20mm angle/box section.... no...

Ok folks will try and post a few pics later it seems who ever converted my van to a high top cut the roof right back to the side supporting structure so my roof aperture is to big for the westy tent...... only by 10mm, so its going to be out with the welder and add some 20mm angle/box section.... no...

Thats awsome thank you I picked up roof today all looks good however the catch is missing by that i mean the catch bracket that bolts onto the roof that the latch clicks into kind of a T shape , I could do with the dimentions of that so as i can fab one up..

cheers cazz pm sent

I see i think my sheldon high top is flat at the back will have a dig around see whats what!

The roof was taken off a long time ago so the van is no more... dont understand what you mean re space?

If you're going down the route of keeping your current roof, as opposed to grafting the westy flat roof on, as mentioned on the other thread, I've got some photos of our roof when our westy pop top was removed. I've got pics of where the rear bracket mounts to and of the bracket itself, unfortunate...

Ok I have found a 2nd hand westy pop top and want to fit it to my van which currently has a sheldon high top I have read that the westys had a factory fitted flat roof and that fitting a westy pop top is difficult on a standard t25 roof anyone have any advice or has anyone don this

cheers