It became apparent that a previous repair job and some rust in the firewall was preventing the hood hinges from being placed in the proper location to align the hood.
Once we knew what we were up against, we pulled the front clip to gain access to the firewall.
A little pokin’ and prying revealed a rusty-crusty sandwich lurking just beneath the surface of the firewall steel. This was going to have to come out and be replaced with new steel.
We also removed the original heater box hole in favor of a smoothed firewall, which also cleans up the Vintage Air A/C system install.
A few hours later, and Adam had all the rusty steel replaced inside the firewall, and a new skin finish welded in place.
