{"id":26,"date":"2008-05-18T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-18T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2015-01-14T14:53:06","modified_gmt":"2015-01-14T14:53:06","slug":"f100bodydoor-edge-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/?p=26","title":{"rendered":"Door Edge Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I decided to get rid of the original core support and crossmember as it wouldn&#8217;t fit the bigger radiator I got for free from a BMW X5. I levelled the front, then put the front wings and hood back on and took a lot of measurements. I made temporary wing supports out of wooden blocks, then cut it off where it was welded to the Camaro clip. I need to order up some box section to make the replacement now that I have a plan in my head as to what to do.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/files\/Truck\/Misc\/NewHoodon-Wood.jpg\" alt=\"New Hood on Wood\" width=\"443\" height=\"332\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I decided to pull the drivers door back off and cut the rotten parts of the bottom skin out. After a while with the grinder, I found the whole bottom of the door was as rotten as a pear. It&#8217;s too much to patch in,so I need to get some patch panels. After re-tapping the door hinge mount plates, I hung the door properly and found out the new edge that I made wasn&#8217;t as good as I thought. The gap ran out towards the top, and after thinking about it for a while, I cut it out and set about making another new one. The old hood became a sheet metal donor and after a few hours work I had a nice even gap. My self darkening mask had gone flat, so I had to use the old mask and I wasn&#8217;t happy with my welds, so I&#8217;ve left it to finish another day.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/files\/Truck\/Misc\/NewDoorEdgeAgain.jpg\" alt=\"New Door Edge Again\" width=\"443\" height=\"383\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I decided to get rid of the original core support and crossmember as it wouldn&#8217;t fit the bigger radiator I got for free from a BMW X5. I levelled the front, then put the front wings and hood back on and took a lot of measurements. I made temporary wing supports out of wooden blocks, then cut it off where it was welded to the Camaro clip. I need to order up some box section to make the replacement now that I have a plan in my head as to what to do.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/sites\/default\/files\/Truck\/Misc\/NewHoodon-Wood.jpg\" alt=\"New Hood on Wood\" width=\"443\" height=\"332\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I decided to pull the drivers door back off and cut the rotten parts of the bottom skin out. After a while with the grinder, I found the whole bottom of the door was as rotten as a pear. It&#8217;s too much to patch in,so I need to get some patch panels. After re-tapping the door hinge mount plates, I hung the door properly and found out the new edge that I made wasn&#8217;t as good as I thought. The gap ran out towards the top, and after thinking about it for a while, I cut it out and set about making another new one. The old hood became a sheet metal donor and after a few hours work I had a nice even gap. My self darkening mask had gone flat, so I had to use the old mask and I wasn&#8217;t happy with my welds, so I&#8217;ve left it to finish another day.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/sites\/default\/files\/Truck\/Misc\/NewDoorEdgeAgain.jpg\" alt=\"New Door Edge Again\" width=\"443\" height=\"383\" \/><\/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-26","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\/26","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=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1342,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions\/1342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}