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I currently have an ambulance roof on my van, all the roof section gas been cut away with some strengthening beams added in place.
If I were to fit a high top with a bed up there would I need to re add some of the panelling to the roof or could I just reattach it without any work??

Bit of a strange question just picking brains at the moment?

Thanks in advance

phil

Whats the current roof made from??? If its steel it might need some more strength added if its fibreglass I'd say just go for it !

Yes mate it's a fibreglass ambulance roof. So you think it will be sound having no steel panels left in the roof.
I was thinking about access, the weight of the bed that kind of thing??

If you were to make a bed up there with some anlge iron across the front should be fine for kids?

Phil, are you thinking of putting the high top onto the high top ambulance roof, so creating a "high top high top"

Would be a novel idea but not for the feint hearted in a side wind

Have often thought there could be scope for a pop top on a high top

Andy

toolsntat wrote:Phil, are you thinking of putting the high top onto the high top ambulance roof, so creating a "high top high top"

Would be a novel idea but not for the feint hearted in a side wind

Have often thought there could be scope for a pop top on a high top

Andy

no mate but I like the idea.

At the moment it's an ambi roof swapping for a high top westy (it's complete so a bed the cupboards etc)

my van does not have a metal roof at all just a hole that stretches from thr windscreen to the tailgate, I believe normally there is a hole cut into the roof for access into a high top leaving the usual panel above the drive passenger seats and the rear section of the roof.
Do they have any load bearing for a normal high top (not ambulance) or will I have to weld those sections back in ?

It's hard to explain this

does this pic make it easier??

Who's gonna be sleeping up there if its a kid then get a lill ole cab bunk and save yourself a load of hassle

Yeah we've got one of those but also an 8 month old and he can't stay in bed with us forever so a "proper" high top is needed unfortunatly

armyphil wrote:Yeah we've got one of those but also an 8 month old and he can't stay in bed with us forever so a "proper" high top is needed unfortunatly

Get an awning for the wife to sleep in

mine has two 'beams' (for want of a better word) going across unnder the tin roof. The access, as you say, is through a hole cut between these beams, so no strengthening required. If yours has been strengthened to compensate for the chopped 'beams' then it shouldn't matter what roof you replace it with.

I too have been thinking about a pop-high-top, it's the future.

rainman wrote:I too have been thinking about a pop-high-top, it's the future.

Till it gets windy one night and you wake up with your face pressed to the side glass

rainman wrote:mine has two 'beams' (for want of a better word) going across unnder the tin roof. The access, as you say, is through a hole cut between these beams, so no strengthening required. If yours has been strengthened to compensate for the chopped 'beams' then it shouldn't matter what roof you replace it with.

I too have been thinking about a pop-high-top, it's the future.

that's that then sorted thank you I might as well go for it.

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armyphil wrote:

rainman wrote:mine has two 'beams' (for want of a better word) going across unnder the tin roof. The access, as you say, is through a hole cut between these beams, so no strengthening required. If yours has been strengthened to compensate for the chopped 'beams' then it shouldn't matter what roof you replace it with.

I too have been thinking about a pop-high-top, it's the future.

that's that then sorted thank you I might as well go for it.

Next question anybody want to buy an ambulance roof

You should really keep it turn it upside down and use it as a canoe just don't fake your own death with it as you will get found out

Phil,
If you get the hightop with the metal roof still attached (if you no what I mean) you can always take the strenghting bars and put them in yours if needed.
The westy had a factory cut hole that went from behind the front seats to the rear of the van, 2/3 rds of the roof.

Andy