Date:         Wed, 17 Apr 2013 17:36:33 -0700
Reply-To:     Alistair Bell <albell@SHAW.CA>
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From:         Alistair Bell <albell@SHAW.CA>
Subject:      Re: Adding Westy Top, was: No Lowly Vanagons
Comments: To: mark drillock <mdrillock@COX.NET>
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Mark,

i did not know the upper bunk was an option, I had assumed all mosaik kits came with the fibreglass bunk section.

It is funny how things have gone with my conversion. I still have not got a good folding bunk arrangement, I did set up a temp solution last summer, but the need for one is diminishing. My son is growing up fast and we won't be making the same family trips we once did. Yup, mixed feelings about the lad getting his own life :)

Last summer it was mostly just me and my wife on trips and the space where the top bunk would be was used to store clothes and sleeping bags etc. Even if I never get around to making a workable upper bunk the pop top is still infinitely better for me than a camperized tin top. I find it extremely cramped inside if I can't stand up, no fun if your van-bound due to bad weather.


alistair



On 2013-04-17, at 1:31 PM, mark drillock wrote:

> Here is a link to some Westfalia Add-on Poptop installation instructions
> as provided with the kit for the top. It shows that only a small hole is
> cut in the roof skin. The top kit does not necessarily include an upper
> bed. That is a separate option.
> 
> http://www.t3-infos.de/images/Mosaik-Joker_Aufstelldach.pdf
> 
> An upper bed is the complicating element if required. The stock camper
> upper bed folds the forward wood and foam piece over the back foam
> section when the top is down. There is not enough room for that second
> layer of foam with the higher arched passenger roof so the forward foam
> piece must be stored in some other place.
> 
> Mark
> 
> 
> Alistair Bell wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> I still have not finished the top bunk. There is a wrinkle when doing the hole in roof method and that is the top bunk is now on top of the curved tintop roof. This reduces the bed to pop top ceiling distance and the fold up part of upper bunk will not clear. So you have to come up with another solution - the mosaik kit (westy built kit) solves this with a hinged, two part folding out part of bed.