[jkalgren]

Thank God for YouTube... several excellent videos available... and I used ideas from each.

I took the grinder (aka death wheel) with a cutting disc and cut around the roof... near the lip. The trick was to get the bulk of the roof off while leaving the spot welds and seam to deal with separately to make that part easier.

Unfortunately, the inside of the roof was just as bad as the outside!



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So I started cleaning it all up with wire wheels.



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You can still see the rest of the roof panel (the lip) in the pics above... so I needed to deal with that as well.

I bought a spot weld bit from Harbor Freight which did a nice job, once I learned to control it and not drill through both layers! Oops! Used the wire wheel all the way around to expose the spot welds... drilled through each, and then used a hammer and chisel to remove the lip of the roof that I had left.