I have a couple of patch sections to replace on my roof skin, towards the lap seam with quarter on driver and passenger side. Long shot, but I know a few people have swapped out roof skins recently. Figured I would see if anyone would cut and sell me sections from your scrap parts. It doesn't...
Working on drivers pillar. I got it into place where it needs to be for glass/trim and aligned with the holes in the cowl side panel.
It however leaves about .5" of space between the flat section of upper cowl/firewall/top of a pillar. I was working on clamping the replacement cowl down and...
Yeah I intend to do that, just heard mention of others say their aftermarket panels are too long, or too short so figured I'd post up my results too.
Today I played around with prying it left or right against the quarter and was able to get it dialed it. When it gets welded/clamped I bet it...
Figured I'd post up for search results. So i learned my aftermarket panel is like .5 mm off in side to side length compared to the factory one. It also sat proud of the quarters. It kept bothering me, so I finally really dug into it. The mating flange on the qtr ends of the new dutchman/upper...
Parts Hound does ebody harness checks/rebuilds with new connectors, wires and wrap if necessary.
I cannot speak to the veracity/quality of the work though. But honestly I'd strongly think about going that way instead of keeping a bunch of splices in the dash likely to burn down my car.
Can someone measure their dutchman panel/upper trunk filler panel for me?
And the measurement between quarters up near this area??
It's looking like my replacement dutchman is kind of short, but I don't want to start just cranking away on the flanges to get them together.
Thanks!
I saw this video the other day. He talked about gluing the roof and why. That being said I wiould still stick with the NVH instead of a glue to accomplish the same thing.
Starts at 5 min in video.
Well they manufactured millions of sets, which had to meet an initial testing spec. Pulling a set from a 1-5 year old car which are in good shape just seems safer to me. Versus hoping whatever company you buy them from actually does testing and is legit. I just don't take chances with seatbelts...
I've had success with Chad Sperry at Chad's paint and Audio — Auto Rod Technologies
he does a lot to help the restoration community and the Motobase paint he sells is good quality, and affordable.
That unfortunately I cannot give you. I've likely have 3-4 on hand just so I didn't have to worry about running out. Amazon is easy for returns.
200 ml=12.20 cubic inches.
30 inches by .5inches by .25 inches is 5.56 cubic inches. So a guy could measure the flange width/fill gap and length...