Thread: RRC Roof Removal - Tips / Tricks?

Originally Posted by fitzy

I Sikaflexed the roof on my two door as well, great nice and strong.
Then one day it fell over and I needed a new roof, what a bugger to get the old one off, you can't get in to cut it out as there are return edges. Lots of swearing, a jack from the floor to the roof dogleg bends in steak knives and more swearing did the trick.
Lesson - don't Sikaflex roof
Clark rubber have one side adhesive foam rubbery stuff that I think will be perfect

We have the same issue with Citroen DS's... Like a Range Rover, every panel including the roof unbolts. You can only "suggest" so often that sikaflex shouldn't be used... It sure does work well if you never want to remove the roof again though! (DS's are more of a problem as you usually find the rail the roof bolts to is heavily rusted (even though it always looks fine when the roof is fitted).

seeya,
Shane L.

I did this a few years ago, and sure enough, found that bloody tape, complete with missing sections and wobbly application. No wonder dust and muddy water was everywhere from a previous owner driving through puddles at speed! I put the roof back on with 3M putty, 08568. I was tempted to use Sikaflex but could see how impossible it would be to remove the roof again, which, knowing my history with cars, would have to happen eventually.

While I was at it, I also put some Formshield on the inside of the roof and it made a difference to how much heat comes in. But if I did it again I'd use Dynaliner, which is a far better product.

It was also while attempting to put all those damned screws back in, on a hot day, with the sun in my eyes, that I realised the only way the factory workers built these fiddly cars was because they were all drunk. Alright, I have no proof, but it's a plausible theory . . .