Anyone have any comments about installing a sun roof into a club cab..

I have one salvaged from a Chrysler car that was factory installed...

Any advice apprecitated...Mark

 

that would be very cool

 

That would be cool, but most iv'e seen that weren't factory installed, leak. I know you said yours is from a factory model car, but check to see if there was any other reinforcement around the edges for support or how it was in there. Might work great. You can do it!!!!

 

The wife's truck has an aftermarket sun-roof; at least I think it is aftermarket.

It can be popped open at the front, to scoop in air; or, it can be popped open at the rear, to let air out.

I have no idea as to what brand it may be; but, it is pretty snazzy looking.

 

Check to see if the contour of the sunroof matches the roof of the truck, if it isn't a real close match I would pass, it will be hard to fit and probably always leak.

I'm not trying to spoil your fun but I have seen a couple of sunroof installs that should have never happened.

 

My thoughts too. It's pretty easy to cut a big hole in your roof, but not so easy to uncut it after the sunroof drives you crazy.

 

According to a bud that installs glass for a living, the key is to SEAL the mating surfaces with something that does NOT ever dry/harden... like butyl bedding compound for glass. I've used it around the gaskets on several Jeep windshields and it stays pliable/soft thru the temp range... does NOT leak!

 

That is an interesting concept on a first gen I think that it would be inovative

 

The local tombstone store has rolls of sticky tar-looking stuff that is for sealing the two sections of, of all things, a burial vault, like >> what difference would it make, once the dirt is kicked in.

This stuff will seal ANY leak and remains flexible and pliable for years.

I have no idea what it is made of.

It comes sandwiched between two layers of a wax-paper kind of stuff, and is about two-and-a-half inches wide, maybe a quarter-inch thick.

Some of this stuff, worked between the layers of the cab sheet-metal, around the sun-roof opening, would insure no leaks for many years.

 

BearKiller, Woudl love to see some pics of the wifes truck..
that would be a really cool mod if it didnt leak...

 

Between her and the boy opening it a dozen times a trip, if it was a going to leak, it would be a pouring in.

No drips yet.

I didn't install it; the previous owner did, or had someone do it.

 

Not to deter any traffic from here, but there is a similar thread over on Cummins Forum i'll link to it, there r some links to places that sell the kit. My cousin had one installed on her Yota carolla years ago, they did a good job, but ruined the paint from not protecting it from the sparks of cutting the roof!

http://www.cumminsforum.com/forum/au...d-sunroof.html