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Old 01-12-2024, 11:55 PM
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Well, the CHL cowl assembly got here at 11:45, so after lunch I took it out to the shop and got to work. I attached the cowl grille to see where I wanted to cut this in.



I drew a line around the grille and then used 1.250 wide tape to draw another inside that for the cut line.



About 15 minutes later, half of the ugly was gone. I was going to cut it thru the vent holes but I wasn't certain how close they would line up so cutting it here, the seam will be completely hidden under the grille.



I then clamped the cut off onto the new piece and marked that to cut. I haven't cut out the lower cowl yet, so I cut the new one long enough to trim back to fit....hopefully.







The new piece is quite accurate, except for the grille screw holes. 2 are good, but a third one is off 1/4" and the fourth....well, I don't know what happened here. If they are all getting stamped like this, someone needs to fix that die. Oh, well, minor issue it fix.







Had to cut thru the column brace to get enough of the lower cowl.



There almost done...

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I'm REALLY slow at trimming away the extra material to get a donor to drop in place and after 4 hours, this does look quite good.






I'm going to leave the slight overlap on the lower cowl panel. It's going to be challenging enough to get this welded full width and having some overlap will make the seam sealing a little better.






The top lip, that is immediately under the dash panel, is way too straight and will need much massaging to get it to lay down flat, like the original.







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