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Old Sep 8, 2021 | 08:10 AM
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Default Re: M113K Into a Crossfire - Journal
Productive evening. Set about beginning to fix three major items. First, the fan must be replaced. Second, the upper radiator hose is awful. Need to figure out something better. Third, cannot repair the first two without addressing the upper radiator core support, or as @Dave2302 likes to call it, the slam panel.
Here's how things looked going into it:


The first item on the agenda was to grab the donor core support and cut off any piece of metal not part of the main horizontal. Ie, the vertical parts running to the headlamp buckets.

Once this was done, it was time to section out the center portion of the car's core support.



Next, roughing in of the new panel


And finally, finish metal work, lining it all up, and drilling the 6, (well 5, actually*) mounting holes.

I used stainless steel nutserts, and stainless screws.

So I said 5 holes, and while 6 were drilled in the car, the front right hole was there in the black panel from drilling out the spot weld to the headlamp bucket. Unfortunately, it didn't quite line up, and instead had to be elongated.


I'm not too happy with that, but also not sure how I want to fix it.
Next will be the other fix items on the list, and then reassembly. After getting the cooling system worked out, hopefully it will be time to drive it again.


p.s. - I do plan to paint the new panel the correct sapphire silver blue, soon.
 
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