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Jim,

I hope that you had a Merry Christmas full of joy and family.

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Thank you, and I hope you had wonderful holiday season with Santa bringing lots of presents

Jim

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Had to relocate my dip stick as it interfered with exhaust manifold and spark plug wire

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Jim, that's a clean looking setup.

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Thanks Bud, the hard part was finding V/Cs with a threaded boss to mount the coil pack,

Didn't want to drill holes for fear of leaking oil

Still have to relocate O2 sensor, shorten and repin

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Don't remember inner being that RUSTY.......

Oh well, time to seell parts to buy bed sides

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Jim I been following you for years now. You are a legend. I always enjoy your posts.

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Thanks for following along all these years, I try to live up to the high standards of this site

Here is my present situation fix it with little money

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My plan is to flange it and panel bond, we'll see how it goes

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I prefer the quick release mandrel, makes changing wheels much faster

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for some reason my narrative went away between pictures

This is about the tightest arc you can cut with a 1 1/2 inch cut off wheel, I like to sneak up on it, leaving a little white paint to see my line

The wheel generates a lot of heat quickly, so touch the metal, if you can’t hold onto it, then your cutting too quickly and you may warp the metal

I generally cut right, with my contact area of the wheel at 4 o'clock, don't force it as you may explode your wheel, not pretty

It's a slow process but far more accurate than my big dangerous angle grinder, that thing scares the begeases out of me

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Progress

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[quote=jaros44sr;9168221]Progress

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nice cut Jim I have same issues with both tools

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Opened up the outer bedside to solid metal

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I think I know why AMD didn't finish the lip

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Was able to bend the flange closer to a 90 with my Cresent wrench

Now have to figure out the 45 degree bend

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This patch panel was bought as a replacement for a 67-72 fleetside pick up

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Don't do it like me, now I have to build a template

Saw the great Chip Foose do it when he put boxster head lights in a Europa

Cut your patch panel first, then use that as your template

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Had to stretch it a bit to get the convex right

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Wish I had the tools -Greg has, but in the mean time I'll have to use a chunk of railroad and my body hammer

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Not to bad for the first attempt at hammer and dolly


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Looking good, Jim.

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Thanks for following, Bud

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This seems to be starting point for each piece

Could not bend the 45 degree without warping the entire panel, so I pu the 45 on the flange

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Yesterday's failures, are today's success

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