Cowl Hinges And Air strut Lower Mount

[freds]

Starting to get serious about mounting the body parts (after a lot of time spent on body prep without using Bondo etc.) I have read many posts (thank you all) about alignment and interference problems fitting the cowl. In preparation for "getting there":

1. I decided to offset the hinges by placing both spacers on the outside which moves the hinge body position mounting away from the radiator/AC condenser but does not move pivot center line.

2. To shorten the lower leg of the hinge, on the passenger side, to clear one of the A/C hose connections, and make a new slot for bolting the hinge to the lower cowl. This also makes no difference to the tipping geometry of the cowl.

3. To weld the air frame-side strut mount to a strip of 1/8 steel which has two axial slots through which 1/4-20 bolts go into riv-nuts in the frame. This will allow for final positioning of that mount where it does not force the cowl forward when closed.

That's my thinking. What have I missed???? Comments please.

Thanks
fred

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[David Williamson]

as long as the hinges will still fit the fog light buckets with some room to adjust the hood location as you get the final alignment you will be good.
David W

[freds]

as long as the hinges will still fit the fog light buckets with some room to adjust the hood location as you get the final alignment you will be good.
David W


Thanks for the cautionary note feed back. I checked that and the offset is only the width of one ffr spacer. Also the there are decent width slots for the mounting.

fred