Project "Chihuahua" '65 Formula S Restoration "Estilo Mexicano"
Follow-up to post #99: The tweaked trunk has been reworked with mixed results; three corners are passable and the passenger side upper corner remains a little high. Being the fact I want to bring the vehicle home as soon as possible, I am going to forego any more fine tuning and approach that imperfection some other day or week or year (lol).
What we did was bang/bend the hood down where it lay up in the air in the passenger side lower rear corner. Then we noticed the sheet metal surrounding the passenger side hood hinge had split somewhere along the way.
So I asked the welder to clamp the sheet metal down closer to the hinge where it belongs and add a small reinforcement plate around that area to repair it once and for all. However, he added no plate and just welded on the sheet metal using MIG or TIG (see last two fotos).
The end result is that the passenger side upper corner of the trunk is a little too high (see foto #1). I see no way to adjust it "down" by loosening or readjusting any hinge fasteners.
Other fotos in order: Lower passenger corner, lower driver corner, upper driver corner, passenger hinge, driver hinge.
P.S. Edit: Sometime in the near future I may attempt to shim the driver's side hinge to find if that will lower the passenger side rear corner a bit more.
Follow-up to post #99: The tweaked trunk has been reworked with mixed results; three corners are passable and the passenger side upper corner remains a little high. Being the fact I want to bring the vehicle home as soon as possible, I am going to forego any more fine tuning and approach that imperfection some other day or week or year (lol).
What we did was bang/bend the hood down where it lay up in the air in the passenger side lower rear corner. Then we noticed the sheet metal surrounding the passenger side hood hinge had split somewhere along the way.
So I asked the welder to clamp the sheet metal down closer to the hinge where it belongs and add a small reinforcement plate around that area to repair it once and for all. However, he added no plate and just welded on the sheet metal using MIG or TIG (see last two fotos).
The end result is that the passenger side upper corner of the trunk is a little too high (see foto #1). I see no way to adjust it "down" by loosening or readjusting any hinge fasteners.
Other fotos in order: Lower passenger corner, lower driver corner, upper driver corner, passenger hinge, driver hinge.
P.S. Edit: Sometime in the near future I may attempt to shim the driver's side hinge to find if that will lower the passenger side rear corner a bit more.
