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Then I was finally able to get the front end mounted on the hinges. I stiffened the inner panels and the baffles at the rear with beads and gained some, but I should have used some sort of guide because they came out looking like they had been done by a mole.
The gap at the cowl looks good, but the wings at the front of the door will need some sort of guide and latch mechanism to pull them down and to the rear where the door enters. The top of the fender rests on a ledge that supports it where there was an undercut that wouldn't allow the tilt. When I made the new inner fender panel I had to make a new wing support to carry the inner half of the fender. I had to stretch the flange to give it some curvature for tire clearance.
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Hi Eugene
nice progress, thanks for sharing.
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No problem Steve, posting helps keep me on track.
I ran some tape to represent either pie cuts or longitudinal slices to widen the front fender. The inner and outer fender sandwich the headlight so that will remain unchanged and the rear with the baffle forms the door pocket. The top of the wheel opening is fine, but the front and rear need to wider by about 2 1/2". I like this front cut better because it doesn't involve the rolled edge. At the rear a gentle bend in front of the baffle with a small insert should retain the original shape. The apron will need to be extended also and will require an insert to keep the bottom edge level. I picture a long pie shaped insert that swings the front out.
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Great to see so much progress.
Be interesting to see how the widening of the wings works out.
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We shall see Marcus. I need to finalize the assembly of the hood and fenders and the anchor points before I started whacking on the wings so I have some fixed reference side to side.
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I mounted some toggle clamps on the baffle to anchor the fender to the rocker panel. It is upside down, and a safety is in order, but the weight of the hood is all behind the hinge point under the apron.
Then I started playing with a flexible pattern to see if I was on the right track with the longitudinal cut on the fender. Just painters tape overlain with duct tape. I bent some strips and matched the wheel well opening by stretching the flange and offsetting them to clear the tire in the front. This shows the wedge I expect to end up adding. I tried to stuff the pattern to retain the shape of the fender and even tried compressed air, but it wouldn't inflate properly .
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Making good progress, looking forward to see the progress on the fender
Bests Antoine
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Thanks Antoine.
I had some damage to repair at the rear apron and did not want to involve the leaded seam so I cut out the rusted and dented parts and pieced them back. I metal worked the rest as much as I could with the limited access. It is double walled there and may require Bondo where I could not reach without cutting access holes. Then since I was there I built a recessed pocket for the license plate.
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I had to finish the apron work before I could fill in the tank opening. The original was a ten gallon that had a flange on top that sat under the spare tire well. I'm installing a 15 gal tank so I raised the floor of the well and bridged the tank opening with an insert that I ran shallow beads in. Looking ahead to the roof insert that will eliminate the sunroof opening I decided to use this as a learning experience and cut it to fit with butt welds.
I squared up the opening by adding strips on three sides and repaired some rust in a corner. The first use of the Tuck Pucks. It's handy to have three different dish depths. To form the ribs I made a pair of aluminum dies that would match the existing profile. And then used the cutoff to match the spacing and set the fence. By chance I had a short enough tail that I could turn the sheet and finist the ends except for the corners. I clecoed it in place and scribed to trim for the fit and started welding. One bad spot, but other than that minimal distortion.
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Nicely done there Eugene.
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