The title says it all! I bought a nice sunroof kit for my truck and got started today.. All was good till I went to set the thing in and found the hold I cut in the roof to be about 1" to big all the way around! I accidentally used one of the head liner templates. Well now I need to find a new sunroof kit ASAP! Does anyone know of a certain model that would need a 33 1/8" x 17.5" cut out or a little larger? I found a CRL that needs a 35 1/8 x 17 1/8 do you think It would work? I cant beleive this happened! What a bitch!!!

 

ouch...that really sucks I'd try returning the one you have and buying the biggest one you can find that will still fit your roof. One thats even bigger then the hole you have now if you can find one. Or cut out your roof to 35 1/8 across and cut a 35 1/8x3/8" piece of sheet metal and weld it in place shrink the hole down to 17 1/8" HOpe that makes sense good luck.

 

Yeah, I would look for a new sun roof kit that will fit in the hole. Or weld in sheet metal as Geoff mentioned. I don't think theres many other options.

 

I think I may have found one.. It requires a 17 1/8 x 35 1/8 cut out and mine is 17.5" x 33 1/8" it has a 18 3/16 x 36 3/16 frame so I think it would work.. What do you think? I wonder if you can split the difference on it and seal it down?

 

If getting a bigger one doesn't work out, you can always do a custom rag top.

I know how much that sucks - I once drilled a roof for an antenna - used a speck of something by accident instead of my mark. Ended up being off by like 3 inches... I now leave the critical cuts/holes to do before midnight...

 

oh man, that sucks. my wife always beats me up for doing the same thing (measure once, cut twice)

well i hope you find a bigger moonroof!

bob

 

Nope, measure at least THREE times...take a break, come back and measure again, go take a nap, come back and measure again and then, only then cut...cause once you cut it...it don't grow back!

Good luck dude! And keep us posted of the solution.

 

Would it be crass of me to ask for pics?

 

Damn, talk about kicking him when he's down... (I had thought about that too but decided not to - flipped a coin )

 

we all know, THIS THREAD IS USELESS WITHOUT PICS! gotta get those little digs in, weve all done some silly things while working on our rigs. sort of a right of passage.

lee

 

ohhhhhh man, that stinks, I know just how you feel, I ALWAYS screw something up when trying to save a few bucks and do something myself.

Hope it works out for you.

 

Looks like you're learning the ancient Chinese art of Cutty-Fitty, lol.

 

Uhhhhhmmmmmm.......... targa top?

 

just about to suggest making it into a convertible.

 

rag top?

 

Ha! Since its been a day and Im over being totally PISSED at myself I can laugh about it now! Ill get some pics this afternoon! Its funny there is a lowered Nissan X cab that has no roof at all! I ordered the next size up sun roof kit and hopefully it will fit in with no problems!

 

pics pics! we're still waitn' on pics!

 

I thought I was seeing on the Acme Tool site they had a sheet metal stretcher.

No Joy guy, Hope the new sunroof works out.

 

sheet metal stretcher...

You may look into those rag-top sunroofs like they used to have on the old VW Bugs... I think you can get those pretty big... I'll see if I can google something for ya

 

I'm not sure if this size is bigger, if not I think they make them as big as you want. They use to be popular to put on camper shells back in the minitruck days and I remember you could get them like 4 feet long

http://www.streetbeatcustoms.com/slidragtop40.html

http://www.streetbeatcustoms.com/sunconkit.html