{"id":134,"date":"2004-11-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-11-21T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-04-01T16:57:17","modified_gmt":"2011-04-01T16:57:17","slug":"bel-air\/drivers-side-cowl-corner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/?p=134","title":{"rendered":"Drivers Side Cowl Corner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/files\/BelAir\/2004\/11\/DS_Cowl_Corner_HalfOn.jpg\" width=\"220\" height=\"328\" alt=\"DS_Cowl_Corner_HalfOn.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On Saturday I started making the second outer cowl panel, and ended up re-doing the patches that I had done previously. After a few hours of cutting and shaping, I had a panel that I was happy with. I think I made a better job of this one, but nobody will see it anyway. I ground out the joins a little ready to weld it on, then painted the inside of the panel and the area it would cover. I&#8217;d pretty much run out of time then, so closed the door on it ready to continue on Sunday.   <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/files\/BelAir\/2004\/11\/PS_Cowl_Half_Filled.jpg\" width=\"220\" height=\"336\" alt=\"PS_Cowl_Half_Filled.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It all started to go wrong for me on Sunday, my grinder&#8217;s power lead broke and went on and off intermittently. Then I ran out of gas for the mig, so I cleaned the rest of the paint and dirt that I could reach with the grinder brush then gave it a quick skim of filler on the passenger side and across as far as the unfinished corner. A quick half hour with the DA sander an I could see how it will look when it&#8217;s finished. A couple of low spots need filling, but overall I&#8217;m pleased with it. I think I&#8217;m going to box the support uprights in to smooth it a little more, but thats a job for next weekend.  <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/files\/BelAir\/2004\/11\/Firewall_Today.jpg\" width=\"443\" height=\"315\" alt=\"Firewall_Today.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/sites\/default\/files\/BelAir\/2004\/11\/DS_Cowl_Corner_HalfOn.jpg\" width=\"220\" height=\"328\" alt=\"DS_Cowl_Corner_HalfOn.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On Saturday I started making the second outer cowl panel, and ended up re-doing the patches that I had done previously. After a few hours of cutting and shaping, I had a panel that I was happy with. I think I made a better job of this one, but nobody will see it anyway. I ground out the joins a little ready to weld it on, then painted the inside of the panel and the area it would cover. I&#8217;d pretty much run out of time then, so closed the door on it ready to continue on Sunday.   <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/sites\/default\/files\/BelAir\/2004\/11\/PS_Cowl_Half_Filled.jpg\" width=\"220\" height=\"336\" alt=\"PS_Cowl_Half_Filled.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It all started to go wrong for me on Sunday, my grinder&#8217;s power lead broke and went on and off intermittently. Then I ran out of gas for the mig, so I cleaned the rest of the paint and dirt that I could reach with the grinder brush then gave it a quick skim of filler on the passenger side and across as far as the unfinished corner. A quick half hour with the DA sander an I could see how it will look when it&#8217;s finished. A couple of low spots need filling, but overall I&#8217;m pleased with it. I think I&#8217;m going to box the support uprights in to smooth it a little more, but thats a job for next weekend.  <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/sites\/default\/files\/BelAir\/2004\/11\/Firewall_Today.jpg\" width=\"443\" height=\"315\" alt=\"Firewall_Today.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}