Endre
(Andy) Bujtas
Following Dale's advice, I fabricated a skid plate for the front air dam.
It is made of 4 pieces welded together. The front piece is made of 2 3
inch sections of flat stock butt-welded together, and 2 - 2 inch side
sections. I made a template that follows the curvature of the front lip.
I drew the curvature on a 10 x 72 inch piece of particle board.
The set the shape, I nailed some pieces of wood to the particle board.
They are installed at the tangent points on the line I drew. Then, the
3 inch front section (prior to welding the side pieces) has cuts made
with a chop saw down to about 1/4 inch. This allows the piece to bend
easily to conform to the template. Then the ends are tack-welded to afix
the shape. The cuts are made every 1 inch around the center of the nose
and 2 inches apart going out to the sides. I will be mounting it this
weekend. It took a Saturday afternoon to get this far, but this is the
toughest part.
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