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Single vs Double wall Tops
How can you tell the dif, does anyone have some pics please I want to know
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Re: Single vs Double wall Tops
Double - Bolts from the bottom up, 1st pic I will post
Single - Bolts from the top down, 2nd pic I will post Single - Also has a interior dome light like a P/U truck You will also notice the thickness around the Window ![]()
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Re: Single vs Double wall Tops
The difference is the way they are bolted down. I think single bolts from the top down and double wall bolts from the bottom up?
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Re: Single vs Double wall Tops
OK, next question then which one is a better top?
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Re: Single vs Double wall Tops
Singles are better IMO and their lighter when taking them off an on!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Re: Single vs Double wall Tops
was the single wall and double wall available as an option for every year or are they year specific?
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Re: Single vs Double wall Tops
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Single wall tops were only available as an option in '72. Mounting holes between the two types of tops do not match up. In other words, if your rig had a double wall top and you put a single wall top on, you will need to drill new holes to mount the top. Same if you go the other way. Which is better, it's an idividual choice. Some say the single wall top because they are lighter, not by much though. Double wall tops have a problem with the top layer "denting in", due to degradation of the fiblerglass over time. But I've seen single wall tops with "dents" too.
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Re: Single vs Double wall Tops
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Re: Single vs Double wall Tops
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Re: Single vs Double wall Tops
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Re: Single vs Double wall Tops
I think we would need a few more 72 only peeps to confer
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Re: Single vs Double wall Tops
I have a single wall top on my blazer. I thought that most of them came with one until I read this.
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Re: Single vs Double wall Tops
My '72 has one set of holes for the double wall, and slotted holes with sliding nut thingies for the single wall. If I remember correctly the '70 I had only had the holes for the double wall top.
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Re: Single vs Double wall Tops
Wow, this thread has generated alot of new info for me on these tops, although I am not a Blazer man yet, I must finish my Longhorn first, I love these and will own one in oh say about 10 years
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Re: Single vs Double wall Tops
my 72 only has the slider holes for the single wall top
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Re: Single vs Double wall Tops
I've had a few 72's and all had double walls and 1 set of holes.
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Re: Single vs Double wall Tops
My 72 had a single wall...not sure if double wall holes are there or not but I use to have a single wall before I gave it away...
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Re: Single vs Double wall Tops
Are the rear hatchs the same for the single wall and double?
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Re: Single vs Double wall Tops
yes
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Re: Single vs Double wall Tops
OK so I am weighing on this one. Last weekend my 16 year old son and I removed the double wall from my 69 and set it outside the shop. Not a bad lift for the 2 of us....then we picked up my single wall from a 72 to test fit in on my 69 and holy moly, it was all we could do to lift it into place! So I have heard on these kinds of posts that double walls are heavier?? not so in this case, I even asked my son which he thought was heavier and he said no question the single wall was heavier...also I was in a conversation with a guy in Oregon who has tons of pickup and some blazer stuff and he said that single wall tops were only available as an option for last half of 1972 model year run, because GM was getting the next generation tops ready for the 73 and up model that was removable. It made sense if you look at the 2nd gen blazer tops they are constructed almost identical to our single wall tops.
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Re: Single vs Double wall Tops
JC, sound like you have them mixed up to me, the single is way lighter
of the 2 I own, one of each, I can remove the single by myself, it was all we could do to remove the double w/ 2 full grown men, got pic's ?
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Re: Single vs Double wall Tops
My 72 only has holes for a single. Man, I feel funny not having posted in so long. I have a bunch of great stuff to share, just need the time to post it all. Maybe within the next few weeks...
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