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Old 03-03-2015, 02:16 PM   #96
JJorgensen52
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Re: New project! The "Red Herring"

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Originally Posted by Advanced Design View Post
Nice work on the cowl. Seems the replacement panels take a lot of work to make them fit!
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yes nice job on the cowl, always good to grab parts when you can...Jim
Thanks for the kind words!

Overall, I've actually been quite happy with the way the panels fit. I had to reshape the kick panels a little, to be sure, but that was just a matter of bending and it was easier to do in two pieces. This outer cowl, my truck is actually asymmetric, I had to measure it about four times before I believed it, but the driver's side of the cowl/firewall assembly (which is all original metal) is about 5/16" shorter than the driver's side - the passenger's outer cowl fit spot on, no issues. Chalk it up to 65 years of hard work

The inner cowl fillers ... well, those just straight up don't seem to fit. Maybe I got a bad batch, who knows. I can make it work, so that's all that matters!
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