Thread: Time for a Re-fit

Originally Posted by debruiser

I went to super cheap and got myself a pneumatic pop riveter - it's a cheap piece of crap BUT it's great!! Makes popping 100's of rivets quick and easy, no more aching hands and feet I think it was about $125, well worth the investment I think.

Probably a bit late for this project though.... you've already done the tub. I re riveted my tub in a hour or 2 with it.

Funny that you should mention that. At one point I did think about nicking up the road to see what was available. Then I thought "Nah. It's good exercise."

Tropical roof: top-coated.

You've probably already answered this but do you spray paint outside? or just take it out after your finished to let it bake in the sun?

How do you go with overspray and the neighbours? I always try to be careful about that sort of thing (I live in town, the neighbours downwind are quiet close and good neighbours) I wouldn't want to upset them too much.

I usually spray paint in the carport, a matter of feet from my neighbours on the other side of the fence. They don't seem to mind. This project has been going on for years, and they've never said anything -apart from occasionally sticking a head up over the fence to have a yarn about how it's going.

So, hopefully nobody has been upset. I've said all the usual stuff about hope-this-is-not-bothering-anybody.

When Painting I hang clear plastic under my brothers house and make an encapsulation (I am an asbestos removalist so making "bubbles" is my specialty). Once painting is complete I just leave it in there for a few days. I have been told to put some heat lamps in there but I haven't had any issues yet.

Today saw the tropical roof panel put in place - and what a pleasing thing that was. It was helped by the fact that my hardtop (not originally from this vehicle) must have had a tropical panel to begin with, as all the correct holes were in all the right places.

Walking home from the local boaties' supplies last weekend, just as I had been thinking about rubber washers to seal between the panel spacers and the roof, I found some bicycle tyre tube discarded on the footpath. Today, out came the scissors and hey-presto: nice little seals.

Here are a few photos:

Tropical panel in place, waiting for its fixings.

The manna-from-heaven inner tube (also known as the "Hand of God Inner Tube").

Nice stainless steel fixings, spacers and groovy little rubber washers all lined up and ready to go.

Stainless bolt head in place. Nice and tidy.

When the rain finally forced me inside this afternoon, I assembled the tailgate top. Looks good, especially with its new handle. Yes, I know the hammer-finish on the galv needs retouching (actually it may be a stray bit of masking tape still left on it...).

John

The weekend ended on a pretty high note.

On Sunday morning, I raised the hardtop roof up to the carport ceiling using a few ratchet straps, backed the Landy in under it and lowered it down. It looks rather nice in position. For the moment, it's only held by a few loose bolts; got to buy a few more this week.

Nice new windscreen to roof seal & hardtop sides to roof seals (ex-UK).

It's starting to look the part.

A little more to do now, but we're nearly there.

Cheers,

John