Woo Hoo It's Started!

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Originally Posted by Garage Dog 65

You're getting pretty good at slicing and dicing the sheetmetal !

Nice work !!



Jim

Thanks Jim. I figure since I'm getting better at it, I would go ahead and do some more just for good measure. I'm trying to finish up this hood fitment project. After getting the front edge tacked back on, we put the inner structure back in.



After we put the structure back in, we found that it too had the wrong profile. After looking at it and doing some hammer and dolly work, we decided that to make the front hood to grill gap good more material was going to need to be added. Since this is the case, no more cutting. I can fix the rest with the added material. We tacked a 3/16" rod to the front edge. This will allow us to grind the gap properly and even everything up.









Now that the round stock is tacked on it's time to finish weld the sheet metal front edge of the hood before we take it off again to weld up the round stock.

















Sorry for so many pictures, but the fit was so poor before I am excited at the fit now. As always, comments good and bad are welcomed! Thanks for looking.