im redoing top of my cab.it gots suffers rust by rain gutter.what should i do to fix it.should i cut it out and put new metal or what thanks wesley

 

cut it out weld in new tried all the other stuff dint last kept on rusting
the smart folks pull the windshield and weld in a whole new non rusty top faster and easier cut it at the posts and rear window ..

 

thanks

 

Depending on where the rust is, you can get away with replacing just the roof skin with a good one....

I've seen the whole front of the roof rotted across, but the gutter itself was perfect. in that case you can just replace the skin with a clean used one

otherwise, replace the whole roof. cut it at the pillars

 

this is what i did.next time i think i will put a whole roof on,an older style one like the club cabs have (don't know when they changed over).they don't seem to rust like the newer ones.

 

While you're at it, pull the seat out, shorten the pillars, and drop the roofline to where you have 3" of side glass and windshield...


Now we can call it a lowrider, highboy ..... if' it's 4x4, that is...

 

My entire roof is made of "USC All metal" LOL

The surface rust had thinned the metal so bad I had to skim coat the whole thing with this all metal stuff, and the front of the roof was solid foam not even smoothed out thanks to the previous owner....But it looks good now.

Also, It seems that only the Diesels have the gutters that rot out, Our theory is the engine shakes and rattles so much the sealent cracks and allows water and moisture to get in

out of the 20 or so 1st gens we've had. 6 or 7 of them being gassers and NONE of them having roof rot, but most of the diesels did.

Today i looked at a 93 W350 gasser dually PLOW TRUCK with 200k miles on it, and the roof was mint. the rest of the cab was gone, but the roof was perfect...

 

ill take pictures and show yall what mine looks like.mine looks way better then that

 

my friend asked me
why i was cutting up the Newer cab
and use it

the 93 had roof rot
the 1973 had floor rot
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