cornfield customs
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i have been working on the chop for a couple weeks. let me tell you this is probably one of the more difficult chops i have done. for people that dont know much about these trucks, the roof is double layered. it has the roof skin and an inner skin that is the steel head liner. so that creates a problem when it comes to hammering and dollying everything smooth. plus for some reason the sheet metal is super thin so welding it back together is no fun.
so the customer wanted a 1.5 in. in the front and 1 in. in the rear vertical chop. so after some math and template making i determined that to get the 1.5 in the front vertical, i needed to remove 1.875 in. linear. and 1.0625 in the rear. i braced up the cab and the cutting was on. had a buddy come over to help with removing the roof, and i let him do some cutting since he had never chopped anything
cut and put back on
here you can see the gap where the roof needs moved back on the rear
and here is where that became an issue
so i decided to split it at the factory seams to make it look factory and keep out the inner panel more
moved the rear of the roof back and tacked it up
then had to move the rear of the door post back, also split at a factory seam
so the customer wanted a 1.5 in. in the front and 1 in. in the rear vertical chop. so after some math and template making i determined that to get the 1.5 in the front vertical, i needed to remove 1.875 in. linear. and 1.0625 in the rear. i braced up the cab and the cutting was on. had a buddy come over to help with removing the roof, and i let him do some cutting since he had never chopped anything
cut and put back on
here you can see the gap where the roof needs moved back on the rear
and here is where that became an issue
so i decided to split it at the factory seams to make it look factory and keep out the inner panel more
moved the rear of the roof back and tacked it up
then had to move the rear of the door post back, also split at a factory seam
Great job[cl Keep us posted on the front glass
