Posted By: 19cuda73
Cutting Off 1/4's 66 Charger - 12/30/12 07:41 PM
Posted By: Jeremiah
Re: Cutting Off 1/4's 66 Charger - 12/30/12 07:45 PM
Drill the spot welds on the 1/4 skins
Posted By: Kern Dog
Re: Cutting Off 1/4's 66 Charger - 12/30/12 07:47 PM
Save as much as you can. Patching in an area that you already had sorta sucks.
I'd drill out the welds at the top and chisel the panels apart at the pinch weld. Same goes for the rocker area and door jamb.
Posted By: superbeeman69
Re: Cutting Off 1/4's 66 Charger - 12/30/12 09:21 PM
Is that the one your fixing or restoring? If that's a parts car, cut a few inches from the trunk gutter, through the trunk floor inside of the rail. Near the door, go into the rocker past the factory seam and match to the saw mark through the floor. Up top, take above the factory roof to 1/4 seam. Find it on yours first (seam is leaded up, it will be darker than steel when you sand it down) so you know where to cut. When you go to put it on your car, you will need to drill out all the spot welds as stated, take off all the left over trimmings and off she comes. If your having trouble separating the 1/4 from wheelhouse, add some heat from a butane torch from the inside wheewell. It lets that factory seam sealer go gooey and let the panel go without distorting or messing up the outer panel.
Posted By: Mr.Yuck
Re: Cutting Off 1/4's 66 Charger - 12/30/12 09:57 PM
why are you cutting that off? looks decent to me. If you do cut it, do a nice clean job where the molding goes, then you can hide any wleds w/ the trim
Posted By: Jeremiah
Re: Cutting Off 1/4's 66 Charger - 12/31/12 02:10 AM
I can use side glass, a trunk lid/trim, and any window parts that might be available.
Posted By: 19cuda73
Re: Cutting Off 1/4's 66 Charger - 12/31/12 02:17 AM
Most of that stuff was already gone. Some one had cut the structure inside of the 1/4's to get the rear window hardware and glass out.
Posted By: 19cuda73
Re: Cutting Off 1/4's 66 Charger - 12/31/12 07:16 AM
Happy New Year to you and all of our Moparts Friends.
Posted By: therocks
Re: Cutting Off 1/4's 66 Charger - 12/31/12 12:29 PM
Jeremiha too bad you are so far away.My kid has just about all you need.The deck lid is sitting by my 65 and he has all the glass and lots of the assembleys.Rocky