New canvas installed

Bleyseng · Post by **Bleyseng** » Thu Jun 11, 2009 5:53 pm

couple of pics of the switchout...

Washed the mold off of the inside and outside first!

Done!

Vdubtech · Post by **Vdubtech** » Thu Jun 11, 2009 6:03 pm

Dude, that looks amazing!! Tell me everything!! I'm about to have to do this on my '79 and it scares the hell outta me for some reason. I actually would have tried to bribe Colin into staying another day in NY and helping me with it if I had two nickels to rub together. I have a brand new Bus Depot canvas just waitin to go on the top-and I have to replace the top anyway so it's already off the Bus.

sped372 · Post by **sped372** » Thu Jun 11, 2009 6:20 pm

Very nice! We just did ours as well. Feels like such a luxury to not have gaping holes allowing mosquitoes and rain in!

Bleyseng · Post by **Bleyseng** » Thu Jun 11, 2009 6:58 pm

takes two people to lift the top on and off and install the canvas. I used a Construction air stapler with 3/4" staples not weenie staples to hold the strip in, all in all pretty easy but it takes time to clean everything!

Stoopid instructions were a joke as the pics were unreadable..copy of a copy?

Manfred · Post by **Manfred** » Fri Jun 12, 2009 8:33 am

Awesome info. I have to do this too, but it's pretty low on my list. Nice to know this is here for reference later.

hiwaycallin · Post by **hiwaycallin** » Fri Jun 12, 2009 8:38 am

You certainly made that look easy. How long did it take?

IFBwax · Post by **IFBwax** » Fri Jun 12, 2009 8:42 am

Let us know the exact canvass you bought and how it holds up please. Looks great.

Bleyseng · Post by **Bleyseng** » Fri Jun 12, 2009 10:30 pm

it took from 10 to 3pm with lots of cleaning on the fiberglass. I got the canvas from Busdepot and its from JKCampers in England.

The biggest thing I noticed is that it lets in tons more light! yay, its not as dark as the OEM yellow canvas which made it dark inside. It is way thinner fabric but thats not bad IMHO. The 3 windows do let in alot more air too. =D>

Oregon72 · Post by **Oregon72** » Fri Jun 12, 2009 10:35 pm

Bleyseng wrote: Stoopid instructions were a joke as the pics were unreadable..copy of a copy?

YES!!! a total joke. I don't know why they even included them. copy of a copy, of a copy, of a copy.....

Very nice job by the way =D>

Ritter · Post by **Ritter** » Sun Jun 21, 2009 2:38 pm

Looks great!

Having also just done this (the hard way), I can say with tongue firmly in cheek: It's easy! Have fun!

jtauxe · Post by **jtauxe** » Mon Aug 17, 2009 7:40 am

Ritter wrote:Having also just done this (the hard way), I can say with tongue firmly in cheek: It's easy! Have fun!

So - what was the "hard way"?

Ritter · Post by **Ritter** » Mon Aug 17, 2009 8:35 am

jtauxe wrote: So - what was the "hard way"?

With the top on (so I've been told).

LiveonJG · Post by **LiveonJG** » Wed Aug 19, 2009 8:30 am

Ritter wrote:
jtauxe wrote: So - what was the "hard way"?
With the top on (so I've been told).

Oh yea, that would be.

-John

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New canvas installed

New canvas installed