If yours is like mine, it's easy... you can unscrew all the the track screws by moving the hatc back and forth. Remove track and hatch, then you can slide the hatch off of the track. Grind off the spred part of the bolt that holds the slide on. Then unscrew and remove. If you can't find replacements, buy the screws/bolts and drill a hole from the end down into the body so that after putting it all back together you can spred the bolt so everythng stays together as before. My machinist drilled the holes for me for $5 and the rest of the nuts/bolts/washers weren't more than $5.

:: Trouble with the old style Santana 22 cabin hatch.

:: The tracks used for this are out of production.

:: Naturally so are the slide cars that attach the hatch.

:: What puzzles me is the method by which these hold on the
:: hatch and how they were ever supposed to be removed in
:: order to remove the hatch. The ends of the screws that
:: go through the hatch and into the slides are flattened
:: at the ends and the last part of the threads are
:: stripped. There is a nut trapped on this screw, below
:: the hatch and above the slide. My thought is that the
:: idea is to put some flat wrench on this nut and
:: tightening the screw, trap the hatch between the head of
:: the screw and the nut. This would engage the hatch at
:: four points and allow the slides to slide.

:: But how do you remove them? Tightening or loosening the
:: screw and nut does not provide enought room for the
:: hatch to lift off.
::
:: I have found slide cars that I have been able to modify
:: and make usable.

:: But I still am unable to wrap my head around how
:: threading a nut onto a screw, putting it through the
:: hole in the car, flattening and modifying the end of the
:: screw is supposed to work. Well...let me say, I can see
:: how to do all of that but then (even if all goes as
:: planned) I am left once again with a hatch that I either
:: can't remove or is so superficially engaged with the
:: cars as to be unsecureable
::
:: Anyone else out there going around on this
:: merry-go-round?

:: What am I missing?

:: Dan