Not Another Rebuild Thread....

[McMurphy]

I obviously have not updated this during this past week, but I just seem to run out of time!!


So Coulter, you are right the rolled steel rods really do make for a very nice looking trim, but my OCD cannot allow for something like that to be added without there being a reply to it somewhere else in the cab.
I did some trim like that in my Tempest and it has bugged me ever since. It just looks unanswered and out of place when it tries to stand alone like that.

So this is what I did:
I started with the p-side with a lenght of coat hanger to make a sort of guide for bending the steel rod. I picked the p-side by no other process of elimination other than that is the side closest to my work table....
If you are looking for scientific methodology, you are not going to find it here !!


Originally I was going to do 3 sections, the mirror of the above for the d-side, and a nice little tie-in between the glovebox and the instrument guage bezel. Then I got the great idea of just a 2 piece, as you can see below...


The view from the glove box well, and after the first pass of tack welds.


I knew my dash had been jacked with, but I had no idea it wasnt straight until I saw this:


And here it is all welded in, ready for some fill: