Roof Pillars and Roof skin Reapir
 

Has anyone ever tried to repair the top parts of the upper winsheild pillar? I have some pretty massive holes whrere the seam is on the drip rails and would like to repair it before i just scrap the whole cab. The roof skin is also in pretty bad shape and im sure that LMC offers it but can anyone advise on how they fit?

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Re: Roof Pillars and Roof skin Reapir
 

Too bad you aren't close to Iowa, I have a complete cab roof I would give you.

I have seen some threads on replacing those panels but I didn't read them. You would probably get more help if this was moved to the "Paint & Bodywork" forum....

LockDoc

Re: Roof Pillars and Roof skin Reapir
 

I have replaced both the passenger pillar and the roof skin on my truck. It is a big job for sure. The trickiest part was finding a good replacement pillar. I lucked out and found a cab that was almost completely rotted except for the pillar I needed.

The replacement roof skin fit pretty well I did have to trim it a bit but it dropped right in and the 3m panel adhesive took up any small gaps left.

Here are a few pics of the work.

Re: Roof Pillars and Roof skin Reapir
 

Most repairs i have read on this forum call for cutting the A pillars about 3" down and a choosing a place on the back window area to cut it and replacing the whole roof section. One guy cut the rear of the cab just a couple inches above the floor and did some fancy cutting in the door jamb area to retain his stock vin plate

I have also seen where the owner pulls the window out (you will probably find more rust in the lower corners) hand fabricates a patch sections and welds them in place and welds all the overlapping seams shut, i would also suggest treating the rust with an encapsulator of some kind to stop the rust.

I did see one on the build section recently where they did just the pillar section and grafted the section to the inner liner, window frame and maybe re-skin the whole roof?