{"id":20,"date":"2008-12-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-29T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2015-01-13T22:40:23","modified_gmt":"2015-01-13T22:40:23","slug":"f100bodyre-doing-chop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/?p=20","title":{"rendered":"Re-Doing the Chop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"F100ArticleBody\">Now I could get at the passenger side, I could sort some of the bad bits of the chop out. It just doesn&#8217;t line up that well where it&#8217;s been stuck back together and although I could just bury it in filler, I&#8217;d like to get it as good as I can. There was a vertical strip welded in to fill a gap on the pillar that I just cut out and threw away, and slit the welds back open. After a little bit of hammer and dolly work, I was happy that it lined up properly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"F100ArticleBody\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"374\" width=\"443\" alt=\"Ropey Chop\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/files\/Truck\/Misc\/Ropey-McChop.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"F100ArticleBody\"><span class=\"F100ArticleBody\">A few tacks, and I was ready to cut out the replacement filler strip. Again working slowly I gradually filled in the gaps then set about it with a file, a flap disk and the sander. That showed up the inconsistencies in the shape of the cab pillar, so I worked my way through that as well till I was happier with the overall look of it. I also started working my way along the roof seam and filling that in too as it dissapears in the centre of the chop so I&#8217;d rather it was smooth. The door pillar was also not smooth at the join, so that got cut again, slide hammered out, and re-welded. A lot of work but all worth it I think.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"F100ArticleBody\"><span class=\"F100ArticleBody\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"418\" width=\"443\" alt=\"Bit better\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/files\/Truck\/Misc\/Proper-Chop.jpg\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"F100ArticleBody\">Now I could get at the passenger side, I could sort some of the bad bits of the chop out. It just doesn&#8217;t line up that well where it&#8217;s been stuck back together and although I could just bury it in filler, I&#8217;d like to get it as good as I can. There was a vertical strip welded in to fill a gap on the pillar that I just cut out and threw away, and slit the welds back open. After a little bit of hammer and dolly work, I was happy that it lined up properly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"F100ArticleBody\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"374\" width=\"443\" alt=\"Ropey Chop\" src=\"\/sites\/default\/files\/Truck\/Misc\/Ropey-McChop.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"F100ArticleBody\"><span class=\"F100ArticleBody\">A few tacks, and I was ready to cut out the replacement filler strip. Again working slowly I gradually filled in the gaps then set about it with a file, a flap disk and the sander. That showed up the inconsistencies in the shape of the cab pillar, so I worked my way through that as well till I was happier with the overall look of it. I also started working my way along the roof seam and filling that in too as it dissapears in the centre of the chop so I&#8217;d rather it was smooth. The door pillar was also not smooth at the join, so that got cut again, slide hammered out, and re-welded. A lot of work but all worth it I think.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"F100ArticleBody\"><span class=\"F100ArticleBody\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"418\" width=\"443\" alt=\"Bit better\" src=\"\/sites\/default\/files\/Truck\/Misc\/Proper-Chop.jpg\" \/><\/span><\/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-20","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\/20","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=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":327,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions\/327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}