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I replaced the roof on my first van back in the 90's due to the rust in the front gutter, i was pretty lucky to get one from a wrecker that was rust free and still had part of the side walls and front pillars on it the wrecker had cut 4 inches underneath the gutter the hole way around the van

what i did was brace the vertical internal van braces and front pillars together in all directions also the front pillars need to be braced low enough for your cut

I then drilled out all the spot welds that hold the side walls onto the gutter, ground the welds on the vertical internal braces and door pillars then marked a line around the front pillars and cut, you then should be able to remove the roof from the gutter up

Then did the same on the second had roof as part of the walls were still connected to the gutter, ensuring that the cut line on the front pillars was the same, put the roof onto the van and was pretty happy with how it sat there and all lined up, plug welded the spot weld holes onto my now new gutter welded all the door and front pillars

Hope this helps

Cheers Phil

Donner car will also make the conversion a bit easier especially if you are going to use the dash etc,
it did for me 

thanks Sammy

I got the ve rack sitting pretty much were the bedford one sat (height and spacing off the crossmember)
the length of the ve rack is narrower so I will be putting spacers on both ends the same as Busy did to his transit rack will post pics of them and mounting brackets when I get it all sorted 

I lengthened a vn commodore diff long axle into short side milled a Chanel into the sleeve in case the oil didn't go over it 

I like the Griffin blood thing, its no wonder with 48 of them and you wont have to go very far for parts if you need any thats pretty cool