Roof investigation...
Taking off interior trim is painful - its thin and well stuck down. Pretty much disintegrates as you try to pull it away. You have to clear it so you can get to the roof interior.
The trim is the beige stuff on the walls
The van has no roof brace at the C pillar
Roof wedged in with wooden blocks. Guess to give it some extra rigidity.
and the B pillar brace has been replaced by this bar with 2 bolts at each end
Showing that Dehler cut out the space over the gearbox and turn it into the rear seat bucket
Makes you wonder what they did on their Syncro version.
Roof is made of interior and exterior fibreglass shells stuck together. The majority of the interior shell on this one from the B pillar back has been torn off leaving a right mess. The only bit in reasonable nick is the over cab locker which also holds the sunroof. Piccy shows the gap in-between inner and outer, looking forwards.
Held in place with glue up top and these little screws hidden under rubber trim on the underside
The gutter
is rusty
all around
run a screwdriver over it and this is revealed
It looks like the fiberglass roof has a metal insert which is bonded to the inside of the gutter. This is covered and infilled by a foam rubber strip. It looks like at some point mastic was put over the lot and painted.
Releasing the roof would take more work than I had time today before the rain came, so took off the Double glazing instead. Was surprised too find on the side windows it is a single plastic sheet over the factory inner glass. All outer glazing came off cleanly with its metal surround and all screws. Of course the outer is mounted on the Dehler exterior trim.
Little slip of sealant to make it water tight
Rear is other way around - the plastic glazing is mounted internally, held in place by small metal plates which fit just behind the factory rubber. Sealant used here as well. Awful pics soz.
German reg number anyone?
Now this is a mystery. This was mounted above the glove box under the dashboard.
Heavy and looks like it has a transformer inside it.
Two plugs - one 2 wires, other 2 wires.
Unfortunately the wires the other side of the plugs had been cut out already so I couldn't trace them to see what it is connected to. It has no identification marking at all on it and is riveted shut.
Answers on a postcard as to what it may be.