So my sunroof leaks real bad and the motor is also on its way out.. Just wondering what my options are for keeping to stock panel in and filling the gap, the car needs rust holes filled also so its going to get painted eventually. Any suggestions?
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I saw a post recently of a guy who welded a rod around the edge of the panel then welded the other side of the rod to the edge of the hole in the roof to avoid warping the panel.. I have also read of people using 3M body adhesive but having to cut the rails to keep the panel flush with the roof.. I would like to avoid the later option as I would like to remove the un-needed weight from the roof area.. Just wondering if anyone here has ever attempted a sunroof delete before?
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Originally posted by RobTapps88 View PostI saw a post recently of a guy who welded a rod around the edge of the panel then welded the other side of the rod to the edge of the hole in the roof to avoid warping the panel.. I have also read of people using 3M body adhesive but having to cut the rails to keep the panel flush with the roof.. I would like to avoid the later option as I would like to remove the un-needed weight from the roof area.. Just wondering if anyone here has ever attempted a sunroof delete before?
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Originally posted by amcp View PostWhen I removed the sunroof from my track car I cut out the structure that was welded to the roof. I then skinned the sunroof panel. It weighs nothing after which allowed me to use 3m window weld to "glue" it in place. Looks like a factory sunroof too.
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if you want seamless i don't believe alot of the methods mentioned will help.
You are better off getting an entire roof off a non sunroof model and grafting it in. Issue you are going to have is welding so much thin metal is going to distort the metal quite easily. Carefully tig welding might do the trick, but its going to be very tedius. Trick is to keep the heat out of it while welding, brass backing on the back of the welds to get rid of heat and going veeeeeryy slowly. you don't wanna be filling gaps between your roof and your plug piece either, so the hole needs to be perfect to your welded in piece.
something like this:
Thought I would post this job I'm doing on my baja bug. I bought this bug from austrailia but don't like the sunroof which leaks.After a lot of thought about different ways of doing this I decided on stepping the hole and spot welding a patch panel in.The new panel was cut from a scrap...
There are more pics of you scroll down.
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Originally posted by e30davie View Postif you want seamless i don't believe alot of the methods mentioned will help.
You are better off getting an entire roof off a non sunroof model and grafting it in. Issue you are going to have is welding so much thin metal is going to distort the metal quite easily. Carefully tig welding might do the trick, but its going to be very tedius. Trick is to keep the heat out of it while welding, brass backing on the back of the welds to get rid of heat and going veeeeeryy slowly. you don't wanna be filling gaps between your roof and your plug piece either, so the hole needs to be perfect to your welded in piece.
something like this:
Thought I would post this job I'm doing on my baja bug. I bought this bug from austrailia but don't like the sunroof which leaks.After a lot of thought about different ways of doing this I decided on stepping the hole and spot welding a patch panel in.The new panel was cut from a scrap...
There are more pics of you scroll down.
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