The Judge is ready to paint now.......so last night we spent a few hours getting all the front sheetmetal pre-fitted to the car. The radiator support and both front fenders are new aftermarket parts, so I expected to have to do a little tweaking to get them perfect. You don't wanna be tweaking on freshly painted parts.......so we do all that now.
Both fenders needed a little bending in the lower rear area of the "dog leg", as they didn't have the exact curve of the doors. A couple pulls of a slide hammer brought them out perfectly. I also had to do some metal work around the right side marker light to make it fit properly.
I was having a heck of a time getting the front end perfectly square because it seemed to be pulled about 1/4 of an inch toward the passenger side in the front. After working on the problem for an hour, I measured the new radiator support and found that it was slightly out of square. I don't know if it was made that way or if it happened in shipping......but it was screwing everything up.
A quick push of the top of the radiator support over toward the driver's side about 1/8 of an inch with a Porta-Power jack and everything fell into place perfectly. The hood fits great and clicks into place easily. All the gaps look good. These fenders actually work very well after you do a little fitting with them.
Time to tear it all down again and start spraying some Polar White paint!
