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Originally Posted by boywonder
One thing from the factory tour threw me a bit of a curve ball......One new vans, and according to Jonathan and the worker building the van on the production line, they remove a roof cross-member support from the roof before making the cut and they epoxy and screw it behind the roof cross member at the B pillar, so the cutout is one cross-member width behind the welded in cross-member at the B pillar (the cut out starts at the rear edge of the epoxied in cross member). I asked how long they have been "doubling up" the roof cross-member at the B pillar and the answer was "forever".
Well, "forever" apparently doesn't go back to 2003.......
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Maybe different locations handle it differently? I know SMB-W uses a different top that SMB-N, for example.
Below are two pics from when I redid my cab headliner. I think it shows what you are talking about, but I'm not sure. I assumed the second crossmember behind the B-pillar was OEM, but maybe they moved it there? Is this what you saw in the factory? My van is a 98 Ford EB built in Indiana.