You have to drill out the pop rivets and undo the little bolts along the
sides. You will need two people as the other side will always turn.
You will find some amaxinglu good and easy to strip original paint under
there. I have just done this. Good luck.
Kind regards,
Mark Pilkington.
Rich & Lori Williams wrote:
> A day and a half of solid progress got most of the body disassembled
> and a huge pile of parts cleaned, stripped, primed, and in some cases
> even painted. I even managed to get the top off of the old beast
> after several struggles with nuts that have been nicely corroding over
> the last 41 years (thanks for the help dad). Anyway, my question is
> related to painting the tropical roof. Those of you who have done
> this, what's the best way to go about things here. Upon a brief
> inspection it appears that all the rivets must be drilled out in order
> to remove the sun shield from the main roof. Is this really the case
> or is there something else that I am missing? Okay - don't answer
> that. A P.O. had the great wisdom of painting the entire sun shield
> with a heavy coat of a substance that looks like what is used to paint
> the tops of RV's. Kind of textured and thick. So I want to strip
> this whole thing down and respray with the original
> white/ivory/limestone/whatever but wanted to ask before I set out to
> take the sun shield off. TIA Rich'60 SII 109SW
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