JohnL71RS’s Project restart…..

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After doing some research on this site and others I decided to replace the trunk as mentioned in my thread a couple of posts up from here. I will probably remove the old-new rear panel as well. I do have a new replacement rear panel.

With that said i wanted to make sure both of my qrt's are fitted good to the rear panel. I never finished fitting my drivers qrt. So instead of working on the trunk, i tried to finish the fit on the drivers qrt. I did get the panel to move over to get the trunk lid gap good. I will post some more info tomorrow about what i did. I left my camera in the garage last night and it was raining its ass off this morning, so i didn't get the camera. I will post the details tomorrow. Thanks for checking out my progress.

3-11-2011

Updates over the Mardi Gras break

Here is an update from my Mardi Gras break. I finished welding up my passengers post. Here are a few pics of previous work and the finished product.

I also finished the repair on the driver’s wheel housing.

Now for the crappy driver’s qrt. If everyone can remember from a previous rant I made, the qrt was a terrible fit. I had about an 7\16 gap down the trunk lid. I tried the straps around both qrts, didn’t move hardly at all. I decided to pull it over with a cable come-a-long. It went over pretty easy after I found some beefy metal for my padeyes. The only issue was when I pulled the last click on the come-a-long it popped in the outer shell. I have pics of what I mean. I made a template of the passenger’s side and put it next to the drivers side. You can see the driver’s side is pulled in about 3\8 or less behind the window. It had one bump in the panel at that spot. I just banged on it to push it in. Now it fells straight. I think it shouldn’t matter because you can’t compare both sides at the same time. I will be the only one that knows. It looks straight to me.

Passenger's side

Driver's side

Give me your thoughts on my results. BTW, I now have a perfect 3\16- gap all the way down the trunk lid on the driver’s side. Thanks for checking out my progress.