rear top panel
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rear top panel
If anyone will know the answer to this question it'll be one of you guys. How did people do this stuff before the interwebs?
My husband and I are restoring a 1969 big block corvette. We had the chassis powder coated and I have sandblasted and painted every darn part on the car and of course we had to replace stuff. It's the original rebuilt (by us) engine...
We had the body off the car and did a lot of body work...getting rid of the rear tail-pipe cutouts and repairing the left rear panel. Then we put the body back on the chassis and spent time reducing the 1/4” uneven gaps on the doors and headlamps to 1/8” and lots of other stuff...so you know we're serious.
We're almost ready to primer the thing. My husband is block sanding (cause he's the expert) and he's pretty sick of it, although he's done a lot of body work before. I noticed there are two ridges on the back panel (the one with the gas tank hole). They run side to side and apparently are from the supports underneath. If you put a straight edge across them there is about a 1/32” – 1/16” dip. Have you heard of anyone filling this or should we just let er go?
Or...maybe we have too many shims on the body mounts?
PS. How good does the underside need to be?I have washed and sanded it and we're going to paint it but there are a lot of factory globs of hard stuff. We want to sell it.
Your advice is much appreciated
My husband and I are restoring a 1969 big block corvette. We had the chassis powder coated and I have sandblasted and painted every darn part on the car and of course we had to replace stuff. It's the original rebuilt (by us) engine...
We had the body off the car and did a lot of body work...getting rid of the rear tail-pipe cutouts and repairing the left rear panel. Then we put the body back on the chassis and spent time reducing the 1/4” uneven gaps on the doors and headlamps to 1/8” and lots of other stuff...so you know we're serious.
We're almost ready to primer the thing. My husband is block sanding (cause he's the expert) and he's pretty sick of it, although he's done a lot of body work before. I noticed there are two ridges on the back panel (the one with the gas tank hole). They run side to side and apparently are from the supports underneath. If you put a straight edge across them there is about a 1/32” – 1/16” dip. Have you heard of anyone filling this or should we just let er go?
Or...maybe we have too many shims on the body mounts?
PS. How good does the underside need to be?I have washed and sanded it and we're going to paint it but there are a lot of factory globs of hard stuff. We want to sell it.
Your advice is much appreciated
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So I just went to look. It's actually where the back wall of the storage compartment joins that is raised. Then it dips until it gets to the underside of the vents where it seems to go up again.
It's about a 16" span from one bump to the other.
PS. those are really cool pictures
It's about a 16" span from one bump to the other.
PS. those are really cool pictures
Last edited by edthegreat; Apr 1, 2016 at 06:32 PM.
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The tape shows where the first high spot is. The other high spot is 16" away towards the ventilation cut outs.
The straight edge is between the high spots. There is a 1/16-1/8 dip between them.
This shows the direction the high spots run. This high spot is directly above where the back storage compartment wall is.
Has anyone seen this before?
Last edited by edthegreat; Apr 2, 2016 at 03:13 PM.
