Has anyone done a complete cowl replacement? I started to drill out the spot welds to take the cover off and patch the hat area and found the outside of the coveron the drivers side to be completely shot. I am now looking at buying the complete assembly. It really doesn't look like that much more work considering I have to drill out the spot welds anyway. Does anyone have experience with this? Is it that much more work? I know I will have to support the car in the middle when I do this.

Thanks, Jeff

 

Use the search function you'll find a lot of good posts on this. i did mine is a 1970 - little different but concepts the same. Hardest part is getting out all the spot welds. Attached an article to get you started. good luck

http://www.mustangmonthly.com/howto/...ent/index.html

 

I did mine too. I found it to be easier than floor pan replacement just because you can do all the work on your feet, for the most part. The article is where I got my info from. I also found the replacement cowl assembly, which came from NPD, a dynacorn replacement part, fit like a glove, perfect. Mine came in separate pieces. I did primer and paint the inside of the cowl, once it is welded together, there is no future access.

 

I did an entire replacement and re-used my old cowl and then welded up the vent's to prevent further leakage (i hope). I personally thought this was the hardest part to do on the car and I've replaced like 45% of the metal on my car:S Maybe not hard, but it takes a good deal of time and putting it back in... Wasn't to fun doing 200-300 spot welds.

 

My solution

 

Thanks for the input! I think I am just going to do the whole thing and that way I know it will be brand new. I will get to drilling tomorrow. Jeff

 

Go to Lowes and buy some Pilot Point drill bit's their like 30.00 for a set, much cheaper then buying spot weld bits and they work just as good with no need to drill pilot holes

 

What did you do? It looks sealed off nicely. I was considering welding mine shut while I'm at the sheetmetal. I'm going to pop the cowl off either way to make sure if there's any metal in there in need of replacement that's the time to do it. The other advantage I thought might be that like zmetalmalitia said you can't get in there after you weld it up and I didn't want to have to see black paint through the slots because I haven't decided the exact color yet. I don't know how much you can see if it's painted black, but I can see where all of the overspray is when I painted the stripes last time. Lol. Besides I don't know the condition of all of the metal just yet. It still needs blasting. I'm hoping to get it guttede all most all of the way tomorrow.

 

Mark, can you give us some idea what you have here?
Thanks,
Dan