Fitting a westy pop top

[mozzer]

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

[samk]

cant offer great advice i'm afraid but i am in the process of doing the same thing. It is possible but a few extra bits are needed. support plates for the rear hinges are the main mod i think. There are a few places that fit them. The main concern for me is getting hold of some plans to make sure i make holes in the right places! I'll let you know if i get hold of some

[Cazz]

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, unfortunately there is no measurements on them, but what I can do is draw a pattern from our roof next time I visit her in hospital, sorry garage if this helps at all.

[poshbuggers]

Some pictures I found on the net here: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=1 ... =569789354

[mozzer]

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, unfortunately there is no measurements on them, but what I can do is draw a pattern from our roof next time I visit her in hospital, sorry garage if this helps at all.

a paper template would be great if you could Im picking the westy roof up tomorrow also found this which seems quite useful http://picasaweb.google.com/slowmachine ... onversion# does anyone know where you can get the alloy sealing strip which fits to the roof to hold the canvas in place?

[ninja.turtle007]

Can you not get them from the person you are getting the roof from?

I can't really see the point of cutting a hole in your roof unless you can use the roof space for sleeping.

[mozzer]

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

[ninja.turtle007]

The roof in a westy it cut to the rear of van. Which means the bed is flat and sits lower. If it is done like in the picture you will have to build a bed on top of the curved roof and there will be very little room at that end.

[mozzer]

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

[Cazz]

mozzer if you PM your address I'll pop a template in the post to you, same goes for you samk

I'll also take some pics of the side profile of my roof, so you can compare a westy roof with yours, it's ideal at the moment because it is temporarily roofless, we took it off especially for the pics - no, of course we didn't.

[mozzer]

cheers cazz pm sent

[Cazz]

I've got this picture of the front section. I'll sort something out and sent it with the other template.

[mozzer]

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..

[Cazz]

Our catch plate thing was sold with our roof, but I have this -



no idea why, it just seemed useful to take a picture a few years ago - as it's proved now. I can include the holes and position on the template that I'm going to do. Our bus was in the air today so it proved a bit tricky to do, it was a very high top just about touching the ceiling.

[Cazz]

Oh, double post, dam internet connection losing connection again, just as I was submitting. Why does it do that? Sorry.