Plugging Holes In Van Roof

Plugging the holes in my roof rack.

Plugging holes in van roof.

1 for the roof cement. You don t want anything sticking up that would wear out the shingle from below. 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. 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 let s say you want to use the threaded hole you would have to remove the paint and the rubber plug. 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. Fill small nail holes with silicone caulk or roof cement. The quarrix smart plug roof patch provides a stronger easier and longer lasting way to cover holes in the roof.

Used an existing hole under the van into the pillar. Installs in seconds place it nail it done. These threaded holes are used to install roof rack and such. Jump to latest follow 1 3 of 3 posts.

And is the perfect solution when converting from static vents to ridge ventilation products. Plastic plugs in the roof seem a little. As noted above the search capability on this forum is uhm challenging. 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.

Hole is probably 1 4 or so. Must be the silicone that worked for you then. The gibraltar building products kwik plug roof patch makes it quick and easy to repair holes in your roof up to 8 in. Do they have stainless metal screws that big.

Might distort the roof though. As others i have used silicon bathroom calk form a gasket or liquid nail to seal holes in reused tin. Removed the rubber plug and installed a rubber grommet in that hole. Whether the holes were caused by vent removal storms or animal damage kwik plug efficiently solves the problem.

This patch installs easily with roofing nails and resists cracking and weakening in all temperature extremes. I did investigate hd and similar stores once for plastic plugs and did not see anything that looked close to suitable for waterproof hole plugging. 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. I was thinking that crap that could get in through the big holes would plug up whatever the draining mechanism is.

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.