After the IFS was complete then I decided that I needed to hang some of the front sheetmetal prior to installing the engine. Although I had reworked some the front metal to repair some of the rust, it hasn't been assembled to the frame and body since the panel truck first arrived. So this was a good time to also do a rough overview of how everything was fitting up.
Due to the new IFS, the inner fenderwells needed to be trimmed quite a bit to clear new geometry. I may go back and reinforce these cutouts a bit when I disassemble it but for now I'll just let them go as is. After trimming these pieces the front sheetmetal went on pretty nicely. The only issue that I saw was that the RH fender was sitting a little lower than what it should. I looked on the bottom side, where it wrapped around the outer cowl panel, and there was a gap between the fender and the cowl panel. I think if I slot some of the holes so the fender can slide up and flush on the bottom-side then the fender would be better positioned. I wrote that on my punch list of things-to-do when I disassemble it.
1949 Chevy Panel Truck A Project Journal I'm old but I make up for it by being immature.
