Date:         Thu, 21 Oct 2004 17:08:27 -0400
Reply-To:     Greg Potts <Greg@POTTSFAMILY.CA>
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From:         Greg Potts <Greg@POTTSFAMILY.CA>
Subject:      Re: Installing a pop-top on a non-pop top EASY  ???  IN ONE
              WEEDEND ??
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Hi Doug,

I will chime in on this, having done this conversion to a 1979
Baywindow bus. In the winter of 2000/2001 I transferred a 1974 pop-top
onto a transporter body. Including the time to harvest the donor roof
and prep for a repaint the process took a total of 100 man-hours. It
would have taken a lot less time  if I had already known how to weld,
and even less time if I had used autobody epozy in place of welding.
YMMV.

There weren't actually a lot of tools involved, We did most of the work
with an angle grinder, cutoff wheels, a 110V wirefeed gas welder and a
couple of wrenches.

Here are the pics I took of the 3-month (1 night a week plus occasional
saturdays) project:

http://www.pottsfamily.ca/westfakia/creation/

Happy trails,

Greg Potts
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

1973/74/79 Westfakia Conversion **Bob the Tomato**  LY3H
1977 Sunroof Automatic L63H/L90D
http://www.pottsfamily.ca/westfakia
http://www.busesofthecorn.com


On 21-Oct-04, at 4:04 PM, Doug in Calif wrote:

> Having done this job to my 87 syncro GL (non-westy) as part of my westy
> conversion, I can tell everyone, that to do it RIGHT its a BIG job
> indeed.
> You better be handy with metal and have a good assortment of tools,
> lots of
> know-how and lots of time, and I mean weeks.