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I split the grille and rad support to widen them 2", thereby moving each fender outboard 1", problem solved..........and since I'm going to make a new stainless grille anyway, it's no big deal.

:rolleyes: Now you're just showing off! [ddd
The car is looking awesome and you never cease to amaze!
Happy Canada Day and take us some pics at the show......I haven't made it to a single show this year. :(
 
Did the widening of the grille, only move the front out the 2" ? Did you have to do anything where the fenders hooked to the running boards

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Did the widening of the grille, only move the front out the 2" ? Did you have to do anything where the fenders hooked to the running boards

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Yes, it pushed each fender out 1". No problem at the joint to the running board, there seems to be enough flexibility in the fenders to accommodate that. What I have yet to sort out is the part that joins to the cowl (circled - the fender is not bolted to the running board in the pic). Not only that, I may need to split the fender (yellow line) and realign the edge that the bottom edge of the hood side meets up to so it lines up with the cowl properly.
I think it's called the ripple effect, change one thing (move the fenders forward 5") and everything else is out of whack ...:(
Or chickens coming home to roost....:confused:
 

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Time for a mild nosejob, took a 3/8" pie cut out of the side of the grille shell to bring the nose down a bit.
I made a 1x3" crossmember (1x1" welded to 1x2") to mount the bottom of the rad support, made the cowl to rad struts and also made the underside fender braces so now the front end is solidly mounted. With the final shape of the grille shell established, I can start making the stainless grille to fit into it.
 

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Got a start on making the grille surround. Upper piece is 1" SS angle, side pieces are 3/4" SS angle. Bends are made with a torch, elbow grease and a hammer. After it's welded together I'll mount it with studs welded to the backside then make the grille insert to fit behind it.
 

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Are you using a Tig or Mig?:confused:

Mig is all I ever use. (All I have ....)

Finished making the grille surround and got it mounted, started on the grille insert, made a frame from 1/4" ss rod and mounted it to the backside of the surround and got the first few bars welded to it.
 

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Mig is all I ever use. (All I have ....)

Finished making the grille surround and got it mounted, started on the grille insert, made a frame from 1/4" ss rod and mounted it to the backside of the surround and got the first few bars welded to it.

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Mig is all I ever use. (All I have ....)

Finished making the grille surround and got it mounted, started on the grille insert, made a frame from 1/4" ss rod and mounted it to the backside of the surround and got the first few bars welded to it.

Thanks, just wondering because of S.S. work you have been doing. I have never checked into what is needed for S.S. welding with a mig but have to soon as I need to do a bunch of it myself. I have done it with regular wire but now I need to be able to polish it.[;)
 
They make stainless wire, I've never used it as I tig weld my stainless, a regular er70 wire weld will rust however. Zz, grill looks great, I should done somthing like yours, instead of aluminum for mine, it came out fine but it's life was on the edge of flying out the door more than few times.
 
I just use stainless wire with the regular steel mix gas so it does spatter a bit but I've gotten used to it.....
Finished up the grille today, all it needs now is polishing. Posed with the stock insert, the difference is obvious though it still has a recognizable Packard profile. To sum up the mods, it's sectioned 3", widened 2" and center bar removed.

Sizing up the headlight mods - need to reshape the Packard buckets a bit then graft the Indian buckets to them - seems easy enuff :)
 

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