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Hi Folks , I wish everyone here a a happy , healthy and prosperous New Year .
Well when you get a little older and a bit chubby it's hard to climb up and into the engine bay on a big bolt . So I decided to make the front fenders and grill flip forward . After a bit of cutting and welding . It works . You will have to take a look to see if this would work on a pickup also .
Some points
Where I cut the fenders is good but it needs a 1" sheet metal lip welded onto the under side of the back portion of the fender , the full length of the cut instead of the 2 steel tabs you see in the pic .
Not in pics I cut the radiator support just below the 2 bolts on each side that go to the grill support .
Where the headlight wires come out on each side have to be moved up so when you raise and lower the clip they won't get snagged on the radiator support .
The wiring clips have to be removed also .
I had to trim the lower lip off the bottom of the inner fender . And the rear part of the inner fender that has the 3 holes that mount to firewall has been cut from inner fender and will be mounted separate from the rest of the inner fender . I also had to to trim a bit more ( about an 1' ) of the inner fender up where it meets the fender and firewall , it was catching and wouldn't let the clip flip forward .
I'm just going to use a trailer plug to disconnect the lighting wiring harness , when I flip it forward .