I have been battling with the front clip of my fresh-from-the-painter '49 for the past 2 months.
I guess that I have been too prideful, arrogant, or vane to ask for help.
Anyway, the trouble was all caused by the support rods which go from the top of the radiator support to the front of the lower radiator baffle (these are located between the grill and the radiator).
I tried to make exact replicas of original rods that I had, but I ended up making them too long which jacked the grill and hood latch up by 1/4 inch.
It might as well have been 4 inches! The hood wouldn't fit right.
Prior to finding the bad rods, I had tried to change the cab mount shims, the radiator support shims, cussing, and tool throwing.
So I then went back to square one and loosened ALL of the nuts and bolts again, that was when I found the too-long lower baffle-to-radiator rods. I made corrections to them, and Bingo, everything fell right in to place!
The sun seems too be brighter, the songs of birds no longer annoy me, and I don't snap at friends and strangers that I encounter anymore.
It is a great day to be alive!
Carl
Last edited by 52Carl; 02/27/2017 4:33 AM.
