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****, I'm on a roll! More progress was made on the project today. For those of you that haven't been following along, the previous owner cut the crap out of my core support so that he could put a great big radiator in there that hung way down and was a prime target for speed bumps, rocks etc. Rather than replacing the whole core support, I decided to install this core support stiffener from USCartool.
I bought some aircraft stripper and proceeded to go at the bottom of the core support with brushes, scrapers and a scotch brite pad and this is what I ended up with three beers later.
I put the stiffener in place and held it there with a few C clamps while I proceeded to bang it into its final resting spot with a large dead blow hammer.
It'll probably need to be heated up with a flame to get it to it's final fitment when the guy comes over to weld it in. Member VOETOM's brother is going to bring his equipment by and weld it in for me hopefully by next weekend. I need to get some primer on all of this bare metal ASAP.
****, I'm on a roll! More progress was made on the project today. For those of you that haven't been following along, the previous owner cut the crap out of my core support so that he could put a great big radiator in there that hung way down and was a prime target for speed bumps, rocks etc. Rather than replacing the whole core support, I decided to install this core support stiffener from USCartool.
I bought some aircraft stripper and proceeded to go at the bottom of the core support with brushes, scrapers and a scotch brite pad and this is what I ended up with three beers later.
I put the stiffener in place and held it there with a few C clamps while I proceeded to bang it into its final resting spot with a large dead blow hammer.
It'll probably need to be heated up with a flame to get it to it's final fitment when the guy comes over to weld it in. Member VOETOM's brother is going to bring his equipment by and weld it in for me hopefully by next weekend. I need to get some primer on all of this bare metal ASAP.