After bracing, I went on to cutting out the drive side outer cowl. I used a spot weld cutter (well several of them as I broke the teeth off about every4 or 5 spot welds) and a drill bit to create a pilot. Make sure you make pilot holes, or at least deeeeeep indents. The spot cutter loves to just skip across your sheet metal, breaking teeth along the way.
I gave up on getting the upper spot welds out while the panel was in one piece. I cut just below it with a die grinder and out the panel came. Now that it is out of the way I can get a better idea of where the hiding welds are and use a little more dexterity to get them out. I do not want to **** up the features of the cab upper cowl area!
