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Roof replacement

Postby Ianftr8 » 02 Oct 2013 09:32

This is a post on behalf of a friend who needs to change the roof on his car - I have had a really good trawl about and cannot find the write up that showed the pictures.

Can anybody point us in the right direction.

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Postby saabfast » 02 Oct 2013 10:46

I worked from scraps of info found on the internet and the 'How to improve your TR7' book but it is pretty vague in places. I think there is now a comprehensive write-up on jclays site?

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Postby Ianftr8 » 02 Oct 2013 12:25

Thanks Alan,

I had a good trawl through - I was really looking for Chunk's ( I think) Rally car build blog, the write up which showed chopping the whole tin top off and replacing it.

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Postby RUDDY » 02 Oct 2013 13:14

The thread below shows the roof being taken off my new shell and being replaced with a non sunroof skin.

It's quite a simple procedure, un pick your donor roof from the internal side so that it leaves an un-holed 'new' old panel, ie drill the spot welds from the rear and avoid puncturing the flange of the roof skin.

Do the reverse on the roof you are removing, drill out the spot welds through the skin but don't puncture the internal rood structure.

Swap over the skins and spot weld back on after cleaning and treating all mating surfaces.

If you don't have access to a spot welder you will have to drill and plug weld, not sure if some of the new bodyshop adhesives would be enough on their own to hold a skin on.

Cheers, Paul

http://www.forum.triumphtr7.com/topic.a ... C_ID=11433

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Postby Ianftr8 » 02 Oct 2013 13:46

That's exactly the posting I was looking for, Thanks Paul. I'm sorry I confused you with Chunk.



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Postby Stevie P » 03 Oct 2013 14:43

Thanks Ian and Ruddy

Just what I needed for inspiration to change the roof skin.

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Postby Maxwell » 03 Oct 2013 15:07

TR-Driver \ 2012 Issue 3 [Page 22]

Maxwell [:D]

2.0 TR7 DHC \ Maxwell \ sold
2.0 TR7 FHC \ Robyn \ sold
3.5 TR7 V8 DHC \ Oliver \ sold

2.0 TR7 FHC \ Current
1.8 Mazda MX5 \ Current

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