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Posted By : Andrew Szczecinski, 24-Sep-2006,
06:37pm
Hi
Removed the roof lip as the previous owner had made the mother of all roof lips with filler!
As you can see from the pics the rot has also gone into the top of the winscreen frame, although it does stop once it hits the rubber seal but I think
IÂ’ll need to cut back a fair way to get good metal. HavenÂ’t removed the screen yet as I want to cut away all the bad stuff from
the roof before I take it out. I think I will also find rot at the base of the winscreen side frames (sorry donÂ’t know technical name) so I
may also have to replace these.
I have been pondering on the best way to tackle this job, particularly as i would prefer to do away with the lip completely and have a smooth transition
from the screen to the roof. Do I try and make up my own panel from sheet steel and possibly make up the screen side frames as well? Very hard and time
consuming but not impossible. Or do I try and finder a donor car and cut out what I need?
Alternatively do I try and buy replacement panels. I have seen the front roof lip panel but from the crappy diagram on rimmers/canleys site I cannot
establish whether it will wrap down far enough to replace the bad stuff along the edge of the top of the windscreen. It doesnÂ’t look as though
it will wrap around enough?
Im also unsure if the replacement side frames in rimmers and canleys will completely replace the windscreen side frames?
Has anyone out there tackled this job before? Any guidance would be much appreciated
Thanks - Andy
Roof lip repair - HELP!
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Posted By : Andrew Szczecinski, 24-Sep-2006,
06:38pm
Heres another shot of the corner
Roof lip repair - HELP!
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Posted By : Jonathan Binnington,
24-Sep-2006, 07:18pm
andrew, like i said, I have a roof
just contcat me...
looks like you also need to effect some scree frame repairs
jonathan
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Posted By : Chris Taylor, 24-Sep-2006,
11:08pm
The roof and screen frame are designed as two separate panels and you will find it hard to modify the design with existing repair panels. You will need
the screen frame back to its correct profile before the roof lip repair panel will fit properly.
Personally with rot like that I would look at finding a donor screen frame. However, if you have the right sheet metal skills, almost anything can be
rebuilt. Make plenty of cardboard templates before cutting steel. (Cornflake packets are ideal!)
Sadly I think the screenframe is one pressing with the bulkhead unlike Mk1 and Mk2 GT6 which have a bolt in screen panel. Good news is that any
Spitfire Mk4 and 1500 should be suitable for a donor. Spit frames do not seem to rot at the top in the same way, but you'll need to study the
construction VERY carefully to work out where to cut and how to weld in the new screen frame at the bottom if the rot extends below the bottom of the
screen.
Not sure exactly which Rimmer/Canley panel you are referring to, but I think the gutter repair panels they sell are just the external vertical gutter
at the outermost edges, which are spotwelded to the rear of the screenframe.
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Posted By : Jonathan Binnington,
25-Sep-2006, 06:54am
andrew, is it a mk3 gt6 you have? my roof is mk1 and probably won't be the same
sorry for any confusion
jonathan
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Posted By : Karl Mccarthy, 04-Oct-2006,
04:03pm
hey there, all is not lost!!!!
i have just done the exact same job on my mk3 which ive recently bought. It looks a lot worse than it is, Rimmers do a roof repair section
(crappy fit but maneagable!!) and the screen surround from a mk4/1500 spitty slots straight in. i will endeavour to put up the pics and give
you a blow by blow if thats of any use... just as soon as my computor stops playing about
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Posted By : Andrew Szczecinski,
04-Oct-2006, 05:51pm
Hi Karl
Thats great!
Any help would be much appreciated. Its one of those jobs that im fairly confident i can do but i think it needs a good dose of thinking
about before i get chopping and welding.
Look forward to hearing/seeing more.
Thanks - Andy
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Posted By : Philip Charlton,
05-Oct-2006, 10:29pm
you dont need a repair panel.
bit of filler'll sort it rate out!
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Posted By : Andrew
Szczecinski, 06-Oct-2006, 03:46pm
Phoned ISOPON . . . . they don't deliver in 100kg tubs.