My '67 F100 needs a new roof skin but I only see that part offered for '68 and up models. I have a spare '69 F100 and I'm wondering if I can use the upper part of the cab from that truck. Otherwise sheet metal will have to be custom formed to patch the area where it is rusted next to the drip rails.

Should I cut up an all original but needing a new engine '69 F100 Ranger, or sell it and find a worse one to cut up?

 

C7TZ-8150202-A .. Roof Panel / Obsolete

Applications: 1967/72 F100/750.

 

Yeah, I thought that was one of the often needed but not reproduced parts. Where have you seen it?

 

I have seen two trucks in the JY where someone cut the whole upper half part of the cab roof off about mid way of the windshield pillar. As, I assume they were doing a roof repair.
Also saw one where they had drilled out all the spot welds on the roof skin and removed the roof skin. Guess someone had given up on it an scrapped the whole truck.

Orich

 

Isn't that because Ford glued the roof panels? Would make a simple drilling of spot welds difficult.

 

If the donor truck just needs an engine I would hate to see it get hacked apart just for the roof. Especially being an original 69 ranger. Maybe it wouldn't be so bad if it was just a basic 69 non ranger. But these trucks are getting harder to find in nice shape and prices are going up on them. I rather see it be saved and restored instead of junked. Find a donor with a good roof but needing floors or cab mounts or just find one that's being parted out around you and get the roof skin.

 

That s what I was thinking...I shouldn't cut up a nice straight '69 Ranger. I haven't had time to put a new engine in it, but maybe in a few years I can get that done and sell it to someone who wants to finish up the restoration.

I thought I had seen a roof panel available at LMC or DC but I looked again this morning and couldn't find it. Are all the cab lines from '67 to '72 the same?

 

See post 2.

 

Woops...I was just staring at the part number and the fact that it's obsolete.

Thanks for the info!

 

FYI: FoMoCo spot welded the drip rails to the cab, then used paintable caulk to fill in the gaps. The caulk chipped off, water seeped in, the drip rails began to rust, the rust soon spread into the roof.

 

Yep, that's what happened to my truck. It's a common problem for SoCal trucks...but at least it doesn't have the rest of the rust problems from other parts of the country.

 

Be glad you don't have to deal with the rusty ones around me. My 71 crew had the drip rail rot and I had to cut out the roof skin corners and across the middle of the windshield and graft in new strips of metal. Here's a fine example of the East coast rust here in Northeast OH I picked up this 79 Supercab back in August for the front dana 60. The spring hangers are non existent.

 

turbo dog i have a bare 1967 cab with no rust in it, has no doors its stripped clean, but i know changing out cabs is a lot of work, if its interesting pm me.
Jess

 

1967 F100/750 only: Firewall, dash, radio, heater, brake/clutch pedals, bracket they suspend from under the dash.