A-Pillars are available now!

[69RunnerMike]

Bummer. I want to see how involved seperating these pieces actually is. Sounds like a pain in the butt.

Are they spot welded together?

 

[threewood]

Are they spot welded together?

They have to be.

 

[AudunAasen]

Spoke with Kevin at AMD this morning. He said they don't carry the 3rd piece and that he doesn't see any announcement that they will soon carry that part and that it would be another year if they were planning on producing it. Sorry for the bad news.

Too bad that AMD doesn't make these parts, and also has no plans for this in the near future. Regardless, I am grateful that you took the trouble to investigate. Thank you, @69RunnerMike

 

[bryivalg]

This picture shows the outer windshield A-pillar (AMD part# 375-1468-1L):
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Next picture shows the inner windshield A-pillar (AMD part# 375-1468-2L):
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The two next pictures shows the third part of the A-pillar (the part I need). This part of the A-pillar acts in a way as an extension of the drip rail down towards the outer cowl side door Hinge.
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Does this help to understand the structure of the A-pillar, @69RunnerMike ?

Hi, are you sure you are ten third volume A-pillar? I also need to buy and I don't know where. Thanks

 

[AudunAasen]

Friends, now AMD have the third part produced.

 

[69RunnerMike]

Well son of a gun. AMD told me in November that they had no plans at that time to supply that piece. Merry Christmas!

 

[hdwrench]

Hi, @threewood

Did you manage to get an entire roof section because you needed a complete A-pillar? Maybe that's what I should try if the third part of the A-pillar isn't being reproduced? It's so rotten that I won't attempt to try and save it.

Yes, this is a real rust bucket, so it's going to be the full package! But I'm not as skilled a metalworker as several others here, so most of what I need will be bought from AMD. Therefore, it might not be that interesting to create my own build threads. However, I have received a lot of good help and inspiration from several build threads here. But those craftsmen are of a different caliber!

Attaching a picture of how it looked in the garage today

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that is a nice jig ur project is resting on ! you build it ?

 

[AudunAasen]

that is a nice jig ur project is resting on ! you build it ?

Thank you @hdwrench !
Yes, I built this jig myself. When the project is as challenging as mine, I needed a jig that ensures correct geometry.