Topic: I've just ordered my new double cab roof kit! (Read 3128 times)

stuntman · « **on:** March 20, 2009, 13:18:40 »

Well I just wanted to share this with everyone, after falling out of love with my 110 CSW I decided in a fit of frustration on wednesday night to remove the roof and rear panels and door, I was planning to chop my roof down and just shortening it, but I was pointed in the direction of North Offroad as they have just starting to produce a panel to go on the back of a chopped down 110 van roof to make it into a double cab.

I should be finished tomorrow as it's on a Saturday before 12 delivery and it'll be fitted almost imediatly!

I 'may' be back in love with it.

forestrynick · « **Reply #1 on:** March 20, 2009, 13:31:49 »

Have you got any more details on that double cab kit? What does it involve, I can't find it on the website.

Nick

stuntman · « **Reply #2 on:** March 20, 2009, 14:07:38 »

It's not on the website mate.

basically you chop the 110 roof down and join this with pop rivets and silcoflex or tiger seal.

Costs around £75 for the panel - which I don't think is too bad, around £9 carriage - although I copped it for a saturday delivery (23.33)

crazymac · « **Reply #3 on:** March 20, 2009, 14:22:16 »

And you will of course supply pics of the job!!! :dance:

stuntman · « **Reply #4 on:** March 20, 2009, 14:35:30 »

Yup, a before and after pic

MudRat · « **Reply #5 on:** March 20, 2009, 17:40:17 »

seen the kit, its a very good idea, its basically the back 6-8 inches of roof. Measure twice, cut once though!!

mukkybugger · « **Reply #6 on:** March 20, 2009, 19:53:17 »

sounds good ,might look for a 110 to convert ,always been a expensive option to have to buy genuine roof
thats if you could find one on ebay. :P

Dinkydave · « **Reply #7 on:** March 20, 2009, 20:27:54 »

I used the north offroad piece on mine.

At £92 + vat it's a hell of alot cheaper than buying a proper one

Ade

stuntman · « **Reply #8 on:** March 21, 2009, 07:29:31 »

It's come down ade, it's £75+ now.

How hard did you find it to do?

Dinkydave · « **Reply #9 on:** March 21, 2009, 13:54:16 »

Just my luck they've dropped the price!! :lol:

I didn't put mine together, if I had I'd have rushed through it and probably missed something vital.

And friend of mine owns a body shop near Canterbury & did all the good stuff. As far as I know he didn't discover too many problems.

I just sourced all the parts and decorated it afterwards. I'm very happy with the result and it didn't cost me £10.000! :lol:

Xtremeteam · « **Reply #10 on:** March 23, 2009, 10:57:21 »

its easy, i used a nor panel when i built my king cab 90, pics are in my gallery of the build

stuntman · « **Reply #11 on:** March 23, 2009, 11:34:53 »

Well I'm finished.

Start to finish - about 3 hours :)

Although I am now planning a full repaint of the truck so I've not painted the roof panel yet. but it looks fine, I've fibre glassed the rain channels where they join together to get a smother join, but I'll tidy this up when i take the roof off again for the re-paint.

Dinkydave · « **Reply #12 on:** March 23, 2009, 13:09:22 »

Got any photos yet? lol

I found out over the past couple of months that due to having only half a headlining I'm getting quite a bit of condensation.

Rang up Guy Salmon and the rear section is £290

Something to add to my wish list! lol

stuntman · « **Reply #13 on:** March 23, 2009, 14:03:13 »

Fug!

Northern off road are considering doing a DC fibreglass headlining.

I have my own plans so I'll keep that quiet until I get it sorted

adafish · « **Reply #14 on:** March 23, 2009, 16:01:25 »

i picked the rear part of the Double cab headling for mine from Liveridge...cost me £25

Dinkydave · « **Reply #15 on:** March 23, 2009, 16:25:43 »

I rang around quite a few companies. Liveridge, Foley, Lassale plus a few others.

Lassale said they were considering making their own but all the others told me they couldn't get any. :'(

stuntman · « **Reply #16 on:** March 24, 2009, 07:54:37 »

The plan is mate to use the 110's CSW headlining as far as possible then to the curve of the rear section of the roof, then create an 'L' shaped box that can house a couple of 6x9's in the roof and maybe a map pocket.

Dinkydave · « **Reply #17 on:** March 24, 2009, 10:01:23 »

Now why didn't I think of that!

Anyone got a bit of headining lying around?
Lol

stuntman · « **Reply #18 on:** March 24, 2009, 11:43:35 »

Well I'm going to to try and sort the hand brake out tonight and do a little more on the bulkhead sealing, i may even remove the ifor williams back so I can start on the chequer plating.

mukkybugger · « **Reply #19 on:** March 24, 2009, 17:18:04 »

pictures,PICTURES,PICTURES GRRR [-o<

stuntman · « **Reply #20 on:** March 24, 2009, 20:44:01 »

After the weekend! It'll give me a chance to sort out the join and tidy things up.

stuntman · « **Reply #21 on:** March 29, 2009, 21:27:17 »

I started at 9.00am on saturday morning and finished at 5.00am this morning (sunday), a hell of a long day but it was non-stop.

This is how it looked on friday

Dinkydave · « **Reply #22 on:** March 29, 2009, 21:52:11 »

Great job, it looks cracking!!
Great colour scheme too, lol

Whats that rear window from?

Ade

stuntman · « **Reply #23 on:** March 29, 2009, 22:27:32 »

Series 3 truck cab :)

crazymac · « **Reply #24 on:** March 29, 2009, 22:58:17 »

That looks really neat, well done :clap: :clap: :clap:

big tim · « **Reply #25 on:** March 30, 2009, 21:20:36 »

Very nice mate will try and get down to see you soon :D

stuntman · « **Reply #26 on:** March 30, 2009, 22:24:17 »

No worries mate, you're always welcome fella

scatt · « **Reply #27 on:** March 30, 2009, 22:49:25 »

Now thats looking pretty damn good mate! but im curious why the change?

stuntman · « **Reply #28 on:** March 31, 2009, 10:22:01 »

I get bored to be honest mate, and i was never really happy with an off road CSW 110, it's just too big to be usefull, now I've shortend the cab everything is so much more visable and the load be id actually usefull.

It's a bit rougher in the flesh than the pictures show, but it's only a base coat, I'll sand it all off again over summer and give it 2 or 3 thinner coats and it should be quite nice.

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