And the roof came tumbling down......

Bank Holiday Monday was a good day to start stripping out things in Nina ready for wiring, fitting the solar panel, and the mains hookup socket. The sun was out and for a change I didnt have anything else to do.

I started by removing the air con grill above the cab, and the rear head bumper that were holding the centre roof strip either end.









Next to come out was the bulkhead behind the cab.

Then started removing the speakers, light fittings and roof vent trim which were all holding the roof up.








Then it was just a case of removing the millions of screws either side and dropping the roof down.

What I didnt know was that a small inspection panel held on with 4 tiny screws, one of which was rounded out, still attached through the roof panel, and when I dropped it, I was stuck between a rock and a hard place, I couldnt move in case the fibreglass panel cracked and broke while I tried to release the screw. I ended up shouting for Jen who had thankfully popped back from her petsitting job.



Jen held the roof up enough to stop it breaking while I worked on the screw, oh and found time to take a picture of her with my Gopro much to her disgust :P

After breaking a pair of Britool pliers that I bought many years ago while working as a mechanic, I managed to get the screw out, the roof came down.






Things kind of ended here, I spent a while trying to work out what wires I need to go where, looking very important with my clipboard and copier paper attached ;).

I need a lot of wires, for a lot of lights, this thing is going to GLOW when they are all switched on :P.

Thats it for now, next thing to do is remove all my window frames and blinds, so I can send wires down to each window for my downlights on the blinds.

The solar panel has to go on while the roof panel is down as well, so lots coming up !




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