1972 Canadian H-Code 340 Dart Swinger Special Resto - Finally started!
Managed to get out and work on the car a bit today, damn hot out thou, and try to track down some of the fitment issues I'm having with my AMD quarter. The problems pretty much are relegated to the front of the quarter getting the upper line to line up, which I am able to obtain but was getting a large gap at the very bottom of the quarter to rocker flange. Part of the problem I found was with the front of the wheel tube was out proud of the rocker too much and the quarter would stop at that point leaving a lot of the gap.
The tub can't be adjusted inward and the back of the tub and trunk drop all seem to line up well so my solution was to make a cut at this spot on the tub, hinging slightly at the corner. You can see from the inside shoots when I overlapped it until the tube lined up with the rocker properly then ran some tape along the cut revealing the small amount that needs to be removed and then welded back together.
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This brought the tub in alignment with the rocker and when I test fit the quarter again it helped the bottom gap quite a bit without affecting the tub flange to quarter flange any significant amount.
Unfortunately a bigger problem that I found and thought might be just some alignment issues and flustered me was the loss of my door to quarter gap which opened up significantly.
I finally decided I should measure the AMD quarter panel against the other side for length and found out why I lost my gap.
I brought in the quarter that I removed and remeasured it with fiberglass tape which has next to no stretch and got the same result.
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So the quarter appears to be shorter than the original, disappointing, I haven't come up with a fix for this yet.
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On the bright side my spot welder arrived! :cheers:
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Managed to get out and work on the car a bit today, damn hot out thou, and try to track down some of the fitment issues I'm having with my AMD quarter. The problems pretty much are relegated to the front of the quarter getting the upper line to line up, which I am able to obtain but was getting a large gap at the very bottom of the quarter to rocker flange. Part of the problem I found was with the front of the wheel tube was out proud of the rocker too much and the quarter would stop at that point leaving a lot of the gap.
The tub can't be adjusted inward and the back of the tub and trunk drop all seem to line up well so my solution was to make a cut at this spot on the tub, hinging slightly at the corner. You can see from the inside shoots when I overlapped it until the tube lined up with the rocker properly then ran some tape along the cut revealing the small amount that needs to be removed and then welded back together.
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This brought the tub in alignment with the rocker and when I test fit the quarter again it helped the bottom gap quite a bit without affecting the tub flange to quarter flange any significant amount.
Unfortunately a bigger problem that I found and thought might be just some alignment issues and flustered me was the loss of my door to quarter gap which opened up significantly.
I finally decided I should measure the AMD quarter panel against the other side for length and found out why I lost my gap.
I brought in the quarter that I removed and remeasured it with fiberglass tape which has next to no stretch and got the same result.
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So the quarter appears to be shorter than the original, disappointing, I haven't come up with a fix for this yet.
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On the bright side my spot welder arrived! :cheers:
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