So over the last week or so I got the cowl vent project finished up. It turned out pretty well so I will be on to the next project which will most likely be removing the old firewall, doing a few repairs on the cowl area of the body and then installing a recessed firewall I purchased many years ago from Bitchin Products.
Below is some pictures of the rest of the cowl vent & cowl vent door repair.
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With the new section screwed in position I had scribed a line to where the old metal needed to be cut out.
I laid the tape down on the scribed lines to make it easier to cut the old metal out. Much easier to cut to the edge of the masking tape than a fine scribed line.
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Here it is all cut out other than the tabs I left in the corners so I could screw it back in the correct position for final fitting.
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With the piece fitted up other than the corners with the tabs still in place I tack welded a couple of tabs on top and drilled and screwed into the cowl so the position would be maintained with the 4 corner tabs cut out.
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Finally ready to start welding in place with the corner tabs removed and those areas fitted up.
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After getting enough tacks on the patch at the base of the windshield to hold it in position I removed the locating tabs on the top of the cowl. So now just lots of welding and grinding left to do.
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After getting it tacked all the way around I bolted the door back in to check the fit. Looks good so the welding continued.
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After a couple more rounds of tack welds it's getting there. I like to grind most of the tack welds down between welding as it gives everything time to cool down and makes it easier to keep track of what is a new tack weld and a previous weld.
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With all the welds done and finished out it looks much better than the rusted mess I started with. Will just need a thin layer of body filler to make it look like new again.
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Here I have the cowl vent door to hinge bracket welded back in place and finished out. I did make a small adjustment on the position to get the gaps evened out. This was easy with just the screws holding it on as I just needed to drill the holes in the door slightly oversize, reposition it a bit then screw it tightly to the bracket before taking it back off the car again to final weld it in place.
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And here it is bolted back in place, the fit looks good. The used parts I purchased on ebay made this project much easier so well worth what I paid for them.
On to the firewall project. Not looking forward to getting the old firewall out but it won't remove itself so I see a lot of drilling and four letter words in my future!!
Brian :cool: