Club 80-90 Forums

Help - sanity at risk - much Gnashing of Teeth / Tearing of Hair...

Holdsworth Villa HiTop

I'm trying to get to replace the headlining, but I have no idea how to get the front cupboards out without seriously chopping stuff up...

They seem to be screwed to some 3/4 length longerons from the bottom, but you can't raise it all to get at the screw heads, nor do the longerons swing sideways enough to pull it all backwards past the reinforcing struts in the HiTop......someone put it together, so it must come apart, right.....?

Either I'm being particularly dim (quite possible) or a Great Magic from The Dark Side was employed when this lot was put together...

Has anyone ever got these out without too much carnage?

(I'd attach a pic if I could work out how to do it...my jpegs are "invalid", apparently...)

il be doing the same job in a few weeks,so let me know how u go on.cheers

I have a similar problem (but no answer )

Only a minor issue for me. Our TinTop is easy, interior in / out in half a day.

However, we just bought a very nice leisuredrive off a very nice chap and I wanted to get some wires "up top". Goodness knows how they build these things, I reckon I would need a chainsaw and a crowbar to move the furniture At least I have no worries about "flimsyness" - talk about solid !

This was talked about a month or 3 ago on here (couldn't find the thread).

No doubt someone will be along soon with some words of wisdom

Veagle wrote:(I'd attach a pic if I could work out how to do it...my jpegs are "invalid", apparently...)

Do you mean the actual cab headlining?

To post pictures, open a 'Photobucket' account. Up load your photo(s). Hover your cursor over the image you want to paste into your post and a drop down menu of choices will appear. Left click on 'Image code' (second up from the bottom of the list) and the word "Copied" will briefly appear. Simply paste the copied code into your post text and the picture will (should) appear when you click post 'Preview' or 'Submit'.

Failing that, email me them and I'll pop 'em up for you

Thanks to all for the interest... (and particularly to 1664 for the piccie info - I'll give it a go)

The good news is: SORTED!

I have a neighbour who is a mechanic at a local motor home dealer - he came over this afternoon and discovered a set of screws I'd missed.

I'll try & download pics later in the week, but here goes the literary attempt:

Directly below the front cupboards there is a cross panel that abuts the two 3/4 length longerons I described earlier (in my van they are both covered in burgundy coloured ribbed stuff).

On each side there are two screws that go up & out at an angle from underneath the longeron into the bottom of the cupboards. They are right in the corner and easy to miss (my excuse anyway...) - my mistake was not to trim off the covering right up to the very edge - I'm trying to leave as much lining as possible still attached to the various bits'n'pieces until I actually get to do the recovering.

I've never done any interior work before, so it's all a bit of an adventure. Nice to know there's a helpful bunch of enthusiasts out there.....I'll try to get some sort of pictorial record going.

i recently sold a very nice leisure drive to a very nice chap!where abouts are you trying to run the cables to?MAY be able to help.

Emailed you Adam