So finally got to work on the car again today. We put the valance and bumper on a few weeks ago and did some fitting. I should back up a bit and say that when we were fitting the front clip we did a little tweeking of the bumper to make it fit the fenders and hood better. The bumper really was in great shape to start with. We cut this 2x4 to fit inside the nose and drilled out the backside to accept part of my porta-power. Placed the porta-power between the engine cross member and bumper to push the nose away from the hood just a tad.
Well we had the bumper on the car and had to make the fender meet the bumper in places and now we have to make the bumper meet the fenders so we used epoxy repair material out of a gun. Paul at fast, a member here, has given direction in great detail about how to repair the endure bumpers and I am trying to follow his directions. Here are a few samples of two different epoxy repair materials that we are using.
The upper one is the thicker of the two and we used it to build the bumper out to meet the shape of the fenders.
Mike built it up on the car and sanded it to the correct shape then we took it off again to sand the back side that you see here.
Next time we get to work on the car we plan on using the thinner of the two epoxys to do most of the other repair on the bumper.