Volvo 760 TURBOT DIESIAL. Shiters opinions?

[Richard]

Sunroof motor is completely different unfortunately.

 

I bet you could make your one work if you take it to bits and get everything moving, there isn't much to them.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

I've had mine to bits, the problem is in the worm drive/gearbox which is crimped together and looks unopenable!!!!

[Honey Badger]

Grip and thin strips of foam would do the job, it will stink of styrene for ever though.

 

Grp will warp it though, it has really quite high shrinkage, just painting the board with resin will do bugger all for strength either.

 

Foaming PU glue and thin ply sound the best bet, if you could cut a shape round the sunroof and then glue and screw it through the headlining it should stiffen it up nicely.

 

Top work on this by the way, will be an interesting contrast to your primera as a daily driver.

[cms206]

I'll have a nosy Boll, think I kept the motor out my 760 breaker but I dunno how good, bad or indifferent it is.

 

As regards the headlining I'll give rml2345 a nudge, his 740 saloon headlining was similarly fucked though he had no sunroof. He split his into fore and aft sections at the B-pillar and retrimmed it using an offcut of cream shagpile carpet.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

I see Skandix can supply a new sunroof motor. For just 500€!!!! LOL I bet they sell loads of those

[Richard]

You might find it frees up if you work the manual override vigorously for a few minutes. I've managed to resurrect electric window motors what way.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Grp will warp it though, it has really quite high shrinkage, just painting the board with resin will do bugger all for strength either.

 

 

I thought the GRP was qiute a good idea, obv it would need to be a resin thin enough to soak into the fibres but if the cardboard could be 'impregnated' with the resin I reckon it would work absolutely great, in fact I might try it

[Inspector Morose]

Works for Fiberglass matting so I can't see why it won't work for your headlining.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Just lifted it out the boot of the Primera, and sighed loudly as it broke into 3 pieces.

[mouseflakes]

Shit
 

I reckon your super-thin ply option would work Bols.

[Honey Badger]

I work with grp every day and there will be shrinkage wich could warp the panel making it harder to fit, typically you have to balance the construction of a laminate to keep it directionally stable. you can't do this as it would mean a laminate both sides of the fibre core which might stop you being able to stick the foam liner on.

 

If you do go the GRP route then use a fine glass veil instead of chopped strand mat as the glass to resin ratio is higher and as its thinner it will drape easier, you will have to use more layers though.

 

Test a small area of the liner with some resin first to make sure that it will stick and make sure that there's nothing in the liner to stop the resin curing.

 

Paint the resin onto the liner first then laminate onto it, make sure you get a decent small finned roller to consolidate it well and get all the air out.

 

You want a GP resin with wax additives in it to cut down some of the smell, Scott Bader Crystic 2-8500PA would be a good one, cheap as chips but with wax additives to stop the smell and thixotrope in it to stop draining when you use it.

 

Any thing I can do to help if your going to GRP it just let me know. It makes a pleasant change to be able to add something useful to a thread on here.

[the judge]

I think no headlining would be best way forward......

[Alan_Green]

Yeah. Roof looks fine. Cool in fact. And for what it is, who cares? As long as it is running/welded. Or stick some fuzzy felt up there if it bothers you.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Eh? It looks flippin rubbish with no headlining. I think I am gonna try to fibreglass it.

[Jim Bell]

PVA some 70s porn on it like a truckers cab cot.

[Lankytim]

Would a 940 headlining fit? Also I have a spare ally in my scrap pile if youre interested.

 

Actually, my Dads 740 est is being cubed if you need any bits. Manual sunroof though..

[Mr_Bo11ox]

I think I read that a 940 headliner does fit LT, do you know of one knocking about locally?

[dollywobbler]

No headliner is a bad idea. When I took the headliner out of my Range Rover, I was staggered at how hot it got when the sun came out! Proper oven-like. It also looks dreadful. My 740 estate had the headliner replaced with a union flag, containing LEDs. CLASSY.

[cms206]

No headliner is a bad idea. When I took the headliner out of my Range Rover, I was staggered at how hot it got when the sun came out! Proper oven-like. It also looks dreadful. My 740 estate had the headliner replaced with a union flag, containing LEDs. CLASSY.

The Council Estate has no headlining at all, can't say it's ever made the car feel any warmer... that said it's a pale colour so probably reflects a lot of heat.

[Lankytim]

I can't think of any.. my Dad's headlining is good if you can cut it down to fit a saloon?

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Hows it going muthafokkerz

 

I got the headlining sorted in the end. I went with the fibreglas idea which worked pretty well. I bought 500ml of cheap resin off the bay and a sheet of glass matting, fairly tightly woven.

 

I laid the headlining out on a big piece of plywood and put on a couple of layers of mat. Stippled loads of resin on, and rolled out the air bubbles as best I could with a roller. Did the same on both sides - although originally I didnt want any fibreglass on the 'visible' side I decided it was worth it for the rediced risk of busting it again during refitting.

 

 

That actually worked surprisingly well and gave it plenty of strength back in its fragile bits.

 

 

I brushed the rest of it with thinned-down PVA glue as well:

 

 

Don't know if that did any good or not but can't have done any harm.

 

Once it had had a couple of days to dry out properly I brought it in the house for stage 2:

 

 

bought a big piece of the pukka black headlining fabric off eBay for about £25. Spent another tenner on a couple of cans of 'trim-fix' glue and employed textiles expert Mrs Crab to help me make a neat job of it.

 

 

Looking good so far - I had been worried it might wrinke up on the curves round the 'bubble' for the rear passengers heads but we got it nice and tight and avoided any mess. Difficult to see the fibreglass repairs too, but theyre not completely invisible admittedly.

 

 

we trimmed a good 2" margin round the outside of the board and folded the fabric over and taped and glued it on the back to make a neat job, no pics of that though.

 

That was amazingly successful so, while on a roll we went up the garage and reinstalled it straight away:

 

 

 

To my surprise it went in farily easily, couple of hours and it was all done including cutting out and trimming the hole for the sunroof

 

 

Excuse the shitty phone pics, I forgot my camera

 

Anyway its all done and refitted and I have to say, looks the flippin bollocks!!!

 

 

 

This was probably the trickiest job left to do so i am super chuffed its done and has turned out so well. Cost about £50 in materials and a quite a lot of hours fannying about but I am well happy with the results. This thing should be hitting the road imminently!!

[mouseflakes]

Huzzah!

[HMC]

Thats turned out brilliantly! I did wonder when you said it had snapped in 2 when you got it out of the primera, whether or not you could salvage it.

[Twiggy]

That`s impressive.

[320touring]

Phenomenal work! Cap doffed

[phil_lihp]

That's highly impressive work and looks great, well done!  

[lincolndanny]

Top draw Bol..........Maser?

[Honey Badger]

Classy Job on the headlining Mr Bol.

[KruJoe]

You sure went to town on that job, the pair of you.

 

Gonna bring it to Wales then?

[trigger]

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