swap sliding door for a panel?

[dbz864]

Hi,may sound a daft question but is it possible to remove an offside s/door,and fit a full panel from roof gutter down from a van?thanks

[jimpainter]

Anything is possible if you got the time/money. Why do you want to get rid of the slider?

[Zebedee]

This site shows the fitment of the full side panel.
http://www.rustbuster.nl/Bus_zijpaneel/index1.htm

Looks like it'd just be a case of closing off/removing the runners and welding in a new panel.
I quite fancied going the opposite way and fitting an offside door to my caravelle.

[jimpainter]

I put the top part of a panel in my panel van to make it look like a factory fitted window. It was pretty easy to do so, another lad had the bottom half the panel and he said it was fairly straight forward.

[billy739]

easy to fill the panel , much more work to fit a sliding door to a panel!

[jimpainter]

is it a late or an early van? Isnt the c pillar a different shape on the later vans?

[billy739]

nope

look at a later van, it has a tab welded onto the pillar to take the striker pin
underneath is the early mount pressing

[jimpainter]

My bad....
I knew there was a difference somehow

[dbz864]

thanks for all the replies,sounds like its quite straight foward,its on a 1990 van,its a camper. i dont like the look of it,thays why im thinking of changing it.thanks again.