Wonder if those formed area's are the same front to back - so to speak - you could cut out and turn around even from another year ? Just thinking outside the trunk.....
Who`s bought an AMD 1970 road runner trunk lid - fitment?
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I decided to repair mine, ended up splitting the skin from the structure.
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You can follow my progress - `70 road runner, FC7, 383, 727 It`s waited long enough, finally time to get it done.
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i did that to a hood....... blasted the frame, soaked the skin in molasses for a month
Youre doing the best choice IMO. Lips are super easy to fab and the rest is not that bad either.
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That molasses is an amazing rust remover
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I have a Glasstek fiberglass trunk lid on this car. I need another deck lid and was thinking of that AMD unit. Everything will require some amount of work for excellent fit.
I'm hijacking this discussion because I want to know @eldubb440 how you separated the hood frame from the hood skin. And why did you use molasses on the skin to remove the rust? Were you thinking that blasting it might warp it? (PS, it was nice to finally meet you in person at Carlisle!) Terry
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Hi Terry..... yup, it's good to put a name with a face
it's in the back and sides thread.... the 67 hood
I think it was about 35 spot welds holding the skin to the frame, and yes, sand blasting the skin would pretty much destroy it. Phosphoric acid (ospho) and a wire wheel and elbow grease works too.
just a little off the back and sides please
Thanks!!!Hi Terry..... yup, it's good to put a name with a face
it's in the back and sides thread.... the 67 hood
I think it was about 35 spot welds holding the skin to the frame, and yes, sand blasting the skin would pretty much destroy it. Phosphoric acid (ospho) and a wire wheel and elbow grease works too.
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just a little off the back and sides please
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Yes, just drill the spot welds around the edges and carefully split it apart. You can check my road runner thread for pics.
`70 road runner, FC7, 383, 727 It`s waited long enough, finally time to get it done.
`70 road runner, FC7, 383, 727 It`s waited long enough, finally time to get it done.
Thanks, @torredcuda . I drilled out the spot welds, separated the skin from the support, and used my paint stripping wheel on my angle grinder to remove a ton of bondo and paint. By the way, I've never had good luck in rewelding a spot weld hole to a piece of metal so I started drilling through both pieces of metal until they pop apart. When I reweld the pieces together I'm essentially filling a hole; after grinding, there's usually still a little indent/mark to make it KIND OF look like a spot weld.
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