Joined: Sep 22, 2010 Posts: 32 Location: Black River/Michigan
Posted: Sun May 21, 2017 7:21 am Post subject: M38 arctic top roof
Long story very short--yesterday bought artic top a tree branch had fallen on. The roof as punctured and has a pretty bad dent/s on it. I may be able to fix it bought thought I'd take a long shot and see if anyone just had the roof section for sale.
Or has anyone reskinned one of these? That's the route I'm going to evaluate today.
It's sheet aluminum and the seams are welded. If the 4 curved sides are still in good form or can easily be massaged back to good form just buy a sheet of aluminum in matching gage that will fit as one piece.
Making sure the 4 edges are true again is paramount. So use the side panels mounted to the jeep as a jig. The stiffeners or hat channels inside the top skin will have to be reshaped or fabricated from scratch. _________________ Wes K
45 MB, 51 M38, 54 M37, 66 M101A1, 60 CJ5, 76 DJ5D, 47Bantam T3-C & 5? M100
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