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Well the Holidays are gone and the family is gone and i'm allowed to be in the garage again...lol. I cleaned up and remodeled the garage to gain more space to work in. Went vertical with storage and moved my DIY sand blasting cabinet project to it's forever home in one corner. Gained enough room to be able to use my 4'x2' rolling table/cabinet to work on. I then got down to figuring out the whole front grille / hidden lights mounting situation. I had cut open the welded seam on the left front fender nose surgery that I had done a few months ago because I realized that it was done wrong and the fender wouldn't mount up straight. Since i had that mounted right now i thought i better get the whole front end sheet metal on and fitted up with the fenders and rad support and cross bars with the 66 charger lights and grille. Good thing i did. The left fender was banged up pretty good on the nose and now it wont sit as high and square as the right side does. I need to do some investigation about just where the problem is because it's about 5/8ths of an inch lower at the nose than the right. The angled mounting tabs for the upper crossbar that holds the hood latch are different. The right is good but the left was missing. I welded an angled piece onto the left side in the identical location and exactly the same size and shape but it sits 5/8 lower than the right. The cross bar lines up level with the rad support frame and the grille center medallion lines up centered with the center of the car too. That left end is needing some work.
I had a few moments of scratching my head with the lower crossbar pieces though, they are different than the 66 Charger ones although the parts book and service manual say they are the same. If I place them like they came off then the headlight cases wont fit or spin. I took a while before i thought of swapping ends left to right. Now the higher section on each bar sits under the center grille, and low and behold the grille mounting tabs lined up perfectly with the holes on both bars! Who knew? On the '67 Coronet those higher sections are where the light buckets sit. Now the two lower sections of the bars are to the outer ends and the cases can spin with room to spare. Weird.
So i have the center grille on, both cross bars on, the turn signal housings bolted on and still need to figure out the difference on the left end.
I have the mounting plates from Joel on the way for the cases to spin on so once I have those mounted up i'll have a better idea of where and how everything lines up. It's going to look badass though i'll say that much. I forgot to take pics and it's very cold today so i'm not going out there. I'll have some by the mid week.
Well the Holidays are gone and the family is gone and i'm allowed to be in the garage again...lol. I cleaned up and remodeled the garage to gain more space to work in. Went vertical with storage and moved my DIY sand blasting cabinet project to it's forever home in one corner. Gained enough room to be able to use my 4'x2' rolling table/cabinet to work on. I then got down to figuring out the whole front grille / hidden lights mounting situation. I had cut open the welded seam on the left front fender nose surgery that I had done a few months ago because I realized that it was done wrong and the fender wouldn't mount up straight. Since i had that mounted right now i thought i better get the whole front end sheet metal on and fitted up with the fenders and rad support and cross bars with the 66 charger lights and grille. Good thing i did. The left fender was banged up pretty good on the nose and now it wont sit as high and square as the right side does. I need to do some investigation about just where the problem is because it's about 5/8ths of an inch lower at the nose than the right. The angled mounting tabs for the upper crossbar that holds the hood latch are different. The right is good but the left was missing. I welded an angled piece onto the left side in the identical location and exactly the same size and shape but it sits 5/8 lower than the right. The cross bar lines up level with the rad support frame and the grille center medallion lines up centered with the center of the car too. That left end is needing some work.
I had a few moments of scratching my head with the lower crossbar pieces though, they are different than the 66 Charger ones although the parts book and service manual say they are the same. If I place them like they came off then the headlight cases wont fit or spin. I took a while before i thought of swapping ends left to right. Now the higher section on each bar sits under the center grille, and low and behold the grille mounting tabs lined up perfectly with the holes on both bars! Who knew? On the '67 Coronet those higher sections are where the light buckets sit. Now the two lower sections of the bars are to the outer ends and the cases can spin with room to spare. Weird.
So i have the center grille on, both cross bars on, the turn signal housings bolted on and still need to figure out the difference on the left end.
I have the mounting plates from Joel on the way for the cases to spin on so once I have those mounted up i'll have a better idea of where and how everything lines up. It's going to look badass though i'll say that much. I forgot to take pics and it's very cold today so i'm not going out there. I'll have some by the mid week.