Double wall to Single wall conversion

[Bentblazer]

Just wondering what I can expect to change if I trash my double wall and convert to a single wall. After four years of bringing the blazer back to life I decided to restor the top this winter and a little closer inspection my double wall is pretty rotten, cracks, sags, missing chips. Two years ago I bought a single wall on evilbay for 150 bens, mainly for the hatch, of course it was trash. But looking closer at the top it is in much better shape, one repairable crack and no visible rot. Aside from the bedside mounting holes are there any other changes I would have to make to the top for this change? It seems that all that I would have to do is drill new holes in the mounting flange for this to work and maybe glass the original ones up. Thanks for any input. By the way everyone have a good thanksgiving.

[jcfoote60]

I converted mine over. I was lucky enough to find a donor 72 with totally trashed bedsides so I removed the capture nuts and cages they slide around in from under the bed rails. I then grabbed a couple buddies and placed the single wall onto the blazer, securing the front windshield. I then made sure the top was squarely on the bedsides and from the top rail of the top, marked where the holes needed to be in the bedside. Then we removed the top. The stock bedsides have oblong holes so I tried to reproduce that by starting with a round hole and using a die grinder worked in both directions to elongate the holes (not fun). After that, the issue I ran into was getting in under the bed rails to weld in the cages for capture nuts. Then I had an idea. The cages have flat tabs on each side were the original spot welds were and so I tried JB Weld instead of welding. I plopped the capture nut into the cage and applied the JB and walla, it worked great! The top secures firmly even cranking down on the bolts from above. Does it look factory? No but I had the same problem as you did and with a little work it turned out fine.