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Advice for Mk7 SWB roof fitting please

Postby llekra » Tue Jan 23, 2018 10:20 pm

How is best to go about fitting a roof? I want to fit some insulation underneath but retain as much space as possible?

is it best to glue some wooden runners to the roof and screw carpet covered ply into?

Thanks for the help
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Re: Advice for Mk7 SWB roof fitting please

Postby hectors-tranny » Wed Jan 24, 2018 11:33 am

Lots of options here, but yes it will depend on how much height you have and are wish to sacrifice. What height roof is your van?

Here's how I did it with my high-roof van. (Note I carpeted after fitting the ply. (I carpeted the ply before fitting with my old van, but the screw holes always looked ugly.) You do ideally need battens if you are using 4mm ply, which sags if it has to bridge too wide a gap.

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(With a previous van I saved height by screwing directly into the roof supports, plus I bonded some timber in between these directly to the roof and screwed into those as well. But it didn't look as nice as this way.)
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Re: Advice for Mk7 SWB roof fitting please

Postby llekra » Thu Jan 25, 2018 12:20 am

thanks for the reply.

Im going to bond some batons to the roof to save headroom. its a low roof swb.
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Re: Advice for Mk7 SWB roof fitting please

Postby bigjohnthomas » Thu Jan 25, 2018 12:49 am

I used 6mm plastic rivets straight to the roof spars to hold my ply up ford style

we are not living in the 80s with bits of wood glued to stuff anymore you know
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Re: Advice for Mk7 SWB roof fitting please

Postby dumper » Thu Jan 25, 2018 2:11 am

Just doing mine the same as Hector’s I’m still living in the 80s all the best rock albums came out in the 80s bjt 8)
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1990 190 lwb 2.5 di
1998 100 lwb 2.5 di
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Re: Advice for Mk7 SWB roof fitting please

Postby hectors-tranny » Thu Jan 25, 2018 11:34 am

llekra wrote:thanks for the reply.

Im going to bond some batons to the roof to save headroom. its a low roof swb.


Use the best possible solvent based adhesive you can and clean thoroughly first. A couple of my battens came unglued over time on my old van.
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Re: Advice for Mk7 SWB roof fitting please

Postby bigjohnthomas » Thu Jan 25, 2018 12:08 pm

Roof goes boing boing glue drops off roof falls on head :P
There's already 6mm holes in the roof spars that ford use to fasten the headlining up in busses
Bits of boiled up dead horses arnt going to hold a roof and insulation up for next 30 years
Behold the future
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Re: Advice for Mk7 SWB roof fitting please

Postby hectors-tranny » Fri Jan 26, 2018 2:43 pm

bigjohnthomas wrote:Roof goes boing boing glue drops off roof falls on head :P
There's already 6mm holes in the roof spars that ford use to fasten the headlining up in busses
Bits of boiled up dead horses arnt going to hold a roof and insulation up for next 30 years
Behold the future
Welcome to the 90s 8)


I must admit that I used adhesive extensively on my old van, and some pieces did get unstuck. This is why for my new van I didn't use it at all! :D
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Re: Advice for Mk7 SWB roof fitting please

Postby bigjohnthomas » Fri Jan 26, 2018 3:25 pm

When I got my last little mk7 the ply floor had been glued down in that not a screw in it :shock:
And it wouldn't bloody come up it was bending the floor rather than move
Bloody glue :x
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