thanks BG, I hope to be done soon. lots of work going on, spent a day doing AC at the rental yesterday.
today I tackled the bent cowl. this truck isnt very rusty but the door swang around in ks wind for a long time so the drivers cowl was smashed and the door jamb all out of alignment. I cut off the old cowl below the upper splice and then found all the spotwelds. the part under the hood had about 10, musta been a new guys first day.
i pulled the jamb back to roughly square from the 70 degrees it had been, and used poboy clecos (self tapping screws) to hold the mockup, looked ok but the jamb was still out of whack.
so I used the kansas body machine (ratchet straps to a solid object) to hold it while I welded it all up
pretty satisfying to go from wallered and banging to nice and clean.