40plyrod Posted November 27, 2011 Report Posted November 27, 2011 Sometimes it sure seems as if I like to take the hard way. Lately I've been working on the front sheet metal on the 40 getting it ready to be put back together and adjusted before body work is started and one of the tasks involved getting the grill bars sorted out. This should be a relatively simple task however due to the fact that my plymouth came with only 5 of the bars and I made a bad transaction on ebay difficulty insued. In hind sight I probably should have placed an ad for the grill bars I was missing here on the forum (If you have some for sale please don't tell me:o)but instead I purchased a set "listed" on ebay as 40 plymouth grill bars only to find out after they arrived that they were 1941. To make matters worse and much to the dimay of my wife I paid too much ($100) got riped off on the shipping (the seller said he made a miss calculation on the shipping and charged $20 more) and to top it all off when the package arrived it had been sent COD. Total cost $170 for 20 1941 plymouth grill bars 3 bent beyond use. This was quite awhile ago and I've cooled off since but I never had the guts to tell my wife that the grill bars that I spent way too much money on(that we didn't really have) don't fit. So for the last week I've been trying to make lemonade out of the lemons I bought. The nice thing about the 41 bars is they are made out of lighter stainless than the 40 which made bending them to fit the contour of the 40 front end easier. I started by trimming the hook end of the bar bending them to shape. The problem with the 41 bars is the end is left unfinished where as the 40 ends are capped (I'm assuming that the 41 ends are hidden under the grill surround) Once the contours were right and the bar sitting well I marked the ends to lenght and cut them. The hard part was folding the ends to cap them off, this required a jig and also chewed up the unusable grill bars (I used them to fit the jig and to experiment on where to cut them and how to hammer them) The end result is the the grill bars now fit, I don't ever have to tell my wife and I have modified my car in another way that very few people will ever notice. Quote
randroid Posted November 27, 2011 Report Posted November 27, 2011 40plyrod, That was close! Congratulations on the modifications; the method used was a stroke of genius and you will evidently live to drive another day. -Randy Quote
40plyrod Posted November 27, 2011 Author Report Posted November 27, 2011 Had to resize the pics. Quote
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