{"id":140,"date":"2009-03-29T18:28:45","date_gmt":"2009-03-29T18:28:45","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2015-01-13T22:39:49","modified_gmt":"2015-01-13T22:39:49","slug":"f100bodyfront-valance-repairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/?p=140","title":{"rendered":"Front Valance Repairs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For a bit of a change, I decided to make a start on the front valance panel. I had two of them with the truck, one bent like a banana and one that was full of holes. I picked the one that was the straightest, and spent a while bending it roughly back into shape. I also wanted to fill the bumper slots, so the rusty one became a donor for repair patches and filling it in.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/files\/Truck\/09\/03\/Valence_Before.jpg\" width=\"443\" height=\"303\" alt=\"Valence_Before.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After carefully cutting out the damaged bumper slot, I used that as a template for a piece from the donor, and after a lot of slow and careful welding it was filled in with very little distortion. A quick run over with the flap disk, and it was pretty much ready to go. It needs a fair bit of reshaping to get the rest of the dents out, but I&#8217;m happy with the result. I&#8217;ll do the other side when I&#8217;m fed up of doing something else!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/files\/Truck\/09\/03\/Valence-One-Side.jpg\" width=\"443\" height=\"332\" alt=\"Valence-One-Side.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a bit of a change, I decided to make a start on the front valance panel. I had two of them with the truck, one bent like a banana and one that was full of holes. I picked the one that was the straightest, and spent a while bending it roughly back into shape. I also wanted to fill the bumper slots, so the rusty one became a donor for repair patches and filling it in.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/sites\/default\/files\/Truck\/09\/03\/Valence_Before.jpg\" width=\"443\" height=\"303\" alt=\"Valence_Before.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After carefully cutting out the damaged bumper slot, I used that as a template for a piece from the donor, and after a lot of slow and careful welding it was filled in with very little distortion. A quick run over with the flap disk, and it was pretty much ready to go. It needs a fair bit of reshaping to get the rest of the dents out, but I&#8217;m happy with the result. I&#8217;ll do the other side when I&#8217;m fed up of doing something else!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/sites\/default\/files\/Truck\/09\/03\/Valence-One-Side.jpg\" width=\"443\" height=\"332\" alt=\"Valence-One-Side.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-body-f-100","category-f-100"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140","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=140"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":323,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions\/323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}