Plugging Holes In Van Roof

As others i have used silicon bathroom calk form a gasket or liquid nail to seal holes in reused tin.

Plugging holes in van roof.

Smaller nail holes will be permanently fixed by this method standard roofing nails would be either 3 8 inch or 1 2 inch making a hole. As noted above the search capability on this forum is uhm challenging. Jump to latest follow 1 3 of 3 posts. If you climb on your transit roof you won t find any of these threaded holes because they come with rubber plug and ford simply painted over them.

The quarrix smart plug roof patch provides a stronger easier and longer lasting way to cover holes in the roof. I was thinking that crap that could get in through the big holes would plug up whatever the draining mechanism is. Plastic plugs in the roof seem a little. Fill small nail holes with silicone caulk or roof cement.

Bmitch sep 3 12 at 21 59. This patch installs easily with roofing nails and resists cracking and weakening in all temperature extremes. You don t want anything sticking up that would wear out the shingle from below. Whether the holes were caused by vent removal storms or animal damage kwik plug efficiently solves the problem.

1 for the roof cement. Do they have stainless metal screws that big. So let s say you want to use the threaded hole you would have to remove the paint and the rubber plug. Removed the rubber plug and installed a rubber grommet in that hole.

This leaves open the holes where the torx head bolts go and i did not want crap getting down in them and gumming up the threads. Installs in seconds place it nail it done. But if the shingles are going on top of the lag bolts i d remove them and fill the holes with some extra roof cement. Plugging the holes in my roof rack.

The gibraltar building products kwik plug roof patch makes it quick and easy to repair holes in your roof up to 8 in. Sometimes after receiving a load of used tin if i had some tin smith work type solder bars i would solder the holes before using the tin with a propane handheld blow torch as i don t have any tin work soldering irons or lp gas bottle smith iron forge head. These threaded holes are used to install roof rack and such. Hole is probably 1 4 or so.

How to plug antenna holes on the roof of a car i bought a 2003 ford crown victoria retired police car p71 that has a couple of holes on the roof that were used to mount the light bar and antennas. Must be the silicone that worked for you then. I was told i can find something to cover them with in the plumbing section of hardware stores but i don t know the name of them. So we have established that there are existing holes into the van both in the roof and underneath that are stopped with plastic rubber plugs.

Used an existing hole under the van into the pillar.