Thread: Work junk, and junk... at work. By 'junk.

Maybe you will also like this Arkansas style upper body measuring system...



Test question: What happens next after measuring?

I watched some Ford assembly line vids from back then and wow its a wonder anything lined up the way they did it. Swinging complete unsupported outer structures with rockers using a crane and plopping them onto full length floors and zap zapping away. There was no measuring, only practice makes perfect-ism.

I'm back working on this car now. Today's work went fine and I was happy with what I accomplished... but it was an exercise in futility.

We had another cowl hood in storage, and new hinges and springs for this car. The new hood we have did not fit well enough so we wanted to try another. After removing what was on it, I put new hinges on and tried the storage hood. It was better, but I don't have a striker or bracket to latch it with.



Main problem I found was the top front fender mounting holes are placed differently on the two fenders, with the passenger side holes being about a half inch farther inboard than the other side.





I was slotting the front hole and broke my only burr bit. Had it for at least a decade. Time for new. Seemed strange to me though, the cutting head separated from the shaft. Like maybe those things are fusion welded, made from two pieces. Wierd. I meant to get pic but didn't. Anyway, I borrowed.

The header and valance panels were also preventing a proper side-to-side alignment of the hood, so I removed them for now. In this pic the top one is just wedged in. Gaps are great if you hold the thing shut-



So I reported that this hood was gonna work nice. And it would...

but it belongs to another job, a long-term one not currently on site.

Phooey! Fits nice but I can't use it. At least we know now that our new hood is indeed the problem. The back of the scoop looks crooked to me on both hoods but thats probably to be ignored for now. No telling what I'll end up with. Glad to know that theres not a problem with core support positioning, because now I'll not worry about that any more. Fenders are going to need work at top rears but a nice 1/4" hood gap all around should be achieveable and thats a load off my mind.

Brilliant!

Will do that! Thanks for droppin in. That blue Ford truck was running today.

I installed the new striker assembly on the new hood and reset gaps again without drama. Screwed down the cowl's front edge and established the correct position for that part. Nice clearance on everything up front with no cutting required.

Then I located any problem areas on the hood and surrounding panels. Such as this low area at the front of the hood on one side-



..and this wedge-shaped cowl gap-



...then this wavy area at the rear on the other side-



So I worked on all that stuff-

(Re-worked the bend on the edge of this cowl, FYI.)













That was all yesterday. Today I wrapped up loose ends and took it apart. Sorta multi-tasked, ha ha. Painter can start grabbing stuff anytime now. Theres still a dent in the driver's rocker somebody will fix. I'm concentrating on getting all the front end stuff ready to prime.