Not a lot of options for removing rust from drip rails besides making small patch panels. My roof was so bad I just decided to cut the whole roof off and replace from donor cab.. way easier. was done in a weekend except for finish body work and primer.


Roof skin was completely detached.



This gives you an idea of how bad it actually was. This was filled with Bondo....Poorly...





Its a convertible!



Roof body work was completed before tacking



after welding and rough grinding was done



after welds were ground down.



after a skim coat of filler and some primer

 

Nice work..

 

Great job

 

Most splendid work there man. Cant even tell it was ever done.

 

That sure looked a lot easier than sectioning from a donor. Too bad my donor roof was too bad to use the whole thing. I even had to patch part of the patch, but beats pounding one out from a flat sheet.

Ernie

 

I keep bugging Pat Ford (Dennis Carpenter Ford Resto Parts) about when DC is going to offer a replacement roof panel for the 56 F100. At the SuperNats this year Pat said that Dennis was in the final stages of production of a complete 56 steel cab. Implication was that roof sections would be available at that time. Lots of good 56 cabs bite the dust because of rusted out roofs!
Nice work on the graft!

 

I was amazed on how well everything ligned up..

 

I even looked into having dies made to reproduce the roof with drip rails already attached , and the die set up was over 40k alone. That's a lot of roofs to even start making money so I had to let that go. I just got lucky with a local shop that had a cab that was totally gone in the bottom half. 40 bucks and I had a new roof.

 

Great job & $40 for a new one. I could be so lucky.

 

Nice job!!