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| | | Re: Sunroof question | Joined: Aug 2008 Posts: 18,213 Likes: 2 Supreme Master | Supreme Master Joined: Aug 2008 Posts: 18,213 Likes: 2 |
Everyday above ground is a Good Day!!! Never Stop Vannin'
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Owner & Creator of Wizard's Van-In Videos Member of Riding High Truckers from 1982 to 1996 2nd Member of The Toopa Sinner Tribe Member of Free Bird Vanners 1996 to Present Member of Cape Atlantic Truckers South Jersey Host Club of Freeze Out Certified Nats Judge Member of Shenandoah Valley Vans | | | Re: Sunroof question | Joined: Dec 2001 Posts: 3,455 Likes: 23 pooh-bah | pooh-bah Joined: Dec 2001 Posts: 3,455 Likes: 23 | If you have the ribs like most do then you need and extra base of silicone with the seal. I started with a layer of the black tape style then added extra tube silicone in the ribs. The black automotive windshield kind worked the for me over the years as every one of my vans had a least one sunroof.
Today I just tracked down another brand new 20x37 sunroof for a vanner up here looking to replace his leaking one. If you keep looking they are out there.
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Johnny O "O Vanners" of Connecticut! Since 1982
| | | Re: Sunroof question | Joined: Aug 2008 Posts: 18,213 Likes: 2 Supreme Master | Supreme Master Joined: Aug 2008 Posts: 18,213 Likes: 2 | The black automotive windshield kind worked the for me over the years as every one of my vans had a least one sunroof.
That's the good stuff Johnny
Everyday above ground is a Good Day!!! Never Stop Vannin'
Member of Break Away Vanners Host of Spring Break At Shenandoah Acres Family Campground
Owner & Creator of Wizard's Van-In Videos Member of Riding High Truckers from 1982 to 1996 2nd Member of The Toopa Sinner Tribe Member of Free Bird Vanners 1996 to Present Member of Cape Atlantic Truckers South Jersey Host Club of Freeze Out Certified Nats Judge Member of Shenandoah Valley Vans | | | Re: Sunroof question | Joined: Dec 2001 Posts: 3,455 Likes: 23 pooh-bah | pooh-bah Joined: Dec 2001 Posts: 3,455 Likes: 23 | For anyone looking for a large sunroof to fill a hole from an old version. Here you go. http://hartford.craigslist.org/pts/3061016440.html
1973 Dodge Shorty B-100 1995 Chevy G20 Gladiator
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a well preserve body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and proclaiming
"Wow What a Ride"
Johnny O "O Vanners" of Connecticut! Since 1982
| | | Re: Sunroof question | Joined: Sep 2008 Posts: 3,473 Likes: 1 pooh-bah | pooh-bah Joined: Sep 2008 Posts: 3,473 Likes: 1 | I would get a new one and hope technology has improved. That is a bad lesson most people have learned over the years. NEVER cut holes in the top of your van...Sooner or later they leak.
Cheers! Been There, done that, Member of those.... Built for comfort not for speed ....Well speed too !... I am a vanner, Promise me the world, give me nothing, I'll be back ... next year ! | | | Re: Sunroof question | Joined: May 2012 Posts: 26 newbie | newbie Joined: May 2012 Posts: 26 | I have a electric sunroof (3 months old) from Webasto, so top quality. I had sunroofs throughout my entire life, if done correctly, there are no issues (if you buy a brand name sunroof, not the cheap eBay ones).
Meant to drop it in the van, but the interior ceiling cover does not allow a roof installed, at least not sideways.
It is the biggest they built (have to look up dimensions), tinted glass (green), it tilts or opens completely (to the outside).
Of course complete with frame and control panel, so once you drop it in, it looks like factory (the frame below covers around the hole and tugs in the headliner.
Anybody interested, drop me a pm with email and I can send pictures. It is a great sunroof.
Greetings!
Do not touch a running system!
| | | Re: Sunroof question | Joined: Jul 2011 Posts: 1,719 veteran | veteran Joined: Jul 2011 Posts: 1,719 | can you post the pictures here? did you install it yourself?
Chuck
1988 Dodge B250 "Bloody Mary"
Shenandoah Valley Vans
| | | Re: Sunroof question | Joined: May 2012 Posts: 26 newbie | newbie Joined: May 2012 Posts: 26 | No, because I would have to sign up at yet another page to upload the pictures there, then post the link here bla bla bla.
I can email you the pictures, or post a link this evening where you can see a listing with pictures and measurements.
No, I had A-1 Auto install it as they do it all the time and give warranty. Well, mainly because I am not a "handy" person. I ran the electric to the ceiling though (did not want them to mess up all the little plastic pieces I had to take off).
Installation was simple, took about 2 hours, the headliner stays in, they just cut out the oval opening, sealed the metal, put the roof in, connected the wire, attached the frame at the bottom which tugged in the headliner and cut the fabric coming out the other end. Looked factory.
Our van has a plastic center piece running all the way from the front to the back of the van, consisting of only 2 pieces. So I would not only have to cut through the plastic trim, it would then stick out beyond the sunroof (as the sunroof is thin and the plastic trim thick). So you could see the cut lines, and nothing would line up.
Hope that helps. Will post the link to a listing this evening, okay?
Greetings!
Do not touch a running system!
| | | Re: Sunroof question | Joined: May 2006 Posts: 4,460 pooh-bah | pooh-bah Joined: May 2006 Posts: 4,460 | please post up pics, im interested as well.
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