Help with windshield frame
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Help with windshield frame
I need some help with my windshield frame that has rusted. It is in the right hand lower corner. I need to know if anyone knows of a repair. I have cut all the rust out but it is hard to make that corner. I was all so thinking maybe someone may have an old cab that I could get that corner.
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From: SE Wisc. (the Rust Belt)
Getting a piece of another cab is the best bet. Trying to fab a replacement piece is going to be next to impossible. The area has to be perfect or you're going to have big head aches in the future with leaks and more rust. I'm sure some one has the piece you're looking for and will be along within the day.
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I need it to be about 2" going up past the curve and 6" on the bottom side past the curve. I well take what ever I can get of the curved area. I can take a picture of what went bad. Thanks for the help.
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One of the cabs on the two F-6's I'm parting out has a caved in roof skin, so I have no problems turning it into patch panels. A piece as big as you need is available to you. Feel free to PM me and we can do the specifics off forum.
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Why do people say things are impossible??? With the piece easily available, go for it. However, here is a thread on another forum where this exact task was tackled and conquered.
47 ford windshield repair - Metal Meet Forums
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47 ford windshield repair - Metal Meet Forums
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From: SE Wisc. (the Rust Belt)
Dave,
I suppose a repair like isn't impossible but you better be darn good at metal working to make a perfect water seal repair. I've been doing body work for may years, mostly on my own stuff but I also worked a number of years in a body shop repairing all kinds of wrecks. A repair in this area is very different than most any other part of the body. You can fudge a little on a cab corner or wheel well lip and still come away with a quality repair. In the windshield area you have to be absolutely dead on so you don't end up with water or wind leaks. I've done this kind of repair using factory replacement panels and have had to do a lot of tweaking to get it to seal correctly. Trying to do by starting with a piece of flat sheet metal is next to impossible. The article you sited has a key fact, the poster participated in a Metal Meet where he had intense instruction in how to shape metal. I doubt a novice would ever be able to accomplish such a repair. It is a lot easier to use a part from a donor truck and even then it could be quite tricky to accomplish a perfect repair.
I suppose a repair like isn't impossible but you better be darn good at metal working to make a perfect water seal repair. I've been doing body work for may years, mostly on my own stuff but I also worked a number of years in a body shop repairing all kinds of wrecks. A repair in this area is very different than most any other part of the body. You can fudge a little on a cab corner or wheel well lip and still come away with a quality repair. In the windshield area you have to be absolutely dead on so you don't end up with water or wind leaks. I've done this kind of repair using factory replacement panels and have had to do a lot of tweaking to get it to seal correctly. Trying to do by starting with a piece of flat sheet metal is next to impossible. The article you sited has a key fact, the poster participated in a Metal Meet where he had intense instruction in how to shape metal. I doubt a novice would ever be able to accomplish such a repair. It is a lot easier to use a part from a donor truck and even then it could be quite tricky to accomplish a perfect repair.
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I am getting corner from Wayne (52Merc). I looked at the 47 repair all so and was going to do something like that but thanks to Wayne putting in a corner from another truck is better.
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From: SE Wisc. (the Rust Belt)
I think there is a large number of truck bodies out there where the majority of damage is in the bottom quarter of the cab which makes them an unfeasible restoration candidate but still have a solid 3/4 upper part of the cab. I've had many of these types of parts trucks and honestly can't remember any with the lower corners of the windshield area rotted out. Above the windshield is another story, I would guestimate at least 1/3 had that area rotted out from the mice building nests in that area.