jes72mustang

I know this topic has been covered many times as this is a key area of problems with us classic stang owners.

My name is John and my mustang has a leaking cowl....

I have taken some preventive measures to help it from getting worse. I have read the other threads. from my investigation both inside and outside the car, it seems as though the "hats are fine, but the sheet metal looks like swis cheese. lots of little holes. I do not weld and do not have much experience with body work other than BONDO. And I want it done right. So I wanted to tak the stang to a few shops to get estimates.

Has anyone else had a shop do their cowl repair and what kind of price did you pay?

I am thinking about this for the fall or winter when I won't be driving it anyway.

Thanks

Soaring

Sounds almost like a testimonial at an AA meeting. Seriously though, it's one of the hardest and most time consuming jobs we can do on our Mustangs, so don't be surprised if you have to pay a pretty penny. One of your hardest jobs will be to find someone who knows what they are doing, so that it is done right. Try to find a Mustang restoration place and ask a lot of questions. In the meantime, pull out that carpet and see what rust damage has been done. If no holes, then POR-15 the heck out of it. Put in some seam sealer, then prime and paint those floors. If you have holes, you may as well go ahead and replace the floor pans as well. Welcome to the pleasure of owning a vintage Mustang.

stangrr66

Im going to have to agree with Soaring, fixing the cowl on a mustang is harder than hell, and it takes forever because there is so much involved. It needs to be done right the first time, so its worth spending the money.

67CarolinaCoupe

found this upon a google seach..... maybe it will help.

http://www.early-mustang.com/cowls.html

Soaring

Yeah, there are many ways to do it, but is is really a PITA no matter how you do it. Good article though.

stangrr66

That is a good article, the most time consuming part is drilling out the spot welds, and mustangs unfortunately are filled with them.

73Cleveland

I checked out the POR-15 site and that looks like some pretty good stuff!

Soaring

There are several rust encapsulating products on the market. We old Mustangers generally like a product that is readily available like POR-15, but there are many others out there. Here is one example. http://www.supertherm.net/RustGrip.pdf

jes72mustang

Thanks for the replies, I had seen that article before, and Soaring the floors were replace by the PO. I was really hoping to hear if anyone had this done by a shop and what they charged.

65_2plus2

When it comes to those evil words "Cowl leak" we are all screwed, including my self.
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