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welding in decklid vents
cnfabo - September 6th, 2013 at 09:17 PM

Hi guys,I'm in the process of welding in vents from a later model onto my earlier deck lid but it seems the curve of the two are different..I can bend the vents only so much as they have the lips on the inside that make me bend them only so much..anyway around this..or should I grind them flat ??

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Thanks

HappyDaze - September 6th, 2013 at 09:28 PM

Lay the vents on a bag of sand, and gently tap into shape with a rubber hammer.

cnfabo - September 6th, 2013 at 09:47 PM

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Originally posted by HappyDaze
Lay the vents on a bag of sand, and gently tap into shape with a rubber hammer.
lol Greg...any other way...should I just grind the lips down and it will be more flexible then,it is only a race car so no one will be where the f@r+ are the vent lips gone:lol:

cnfabo - September 7th, 2013 at 10:21 AM

All good, I just gave them a love tap with the mallet on the deck lid it its pretty close