I guess I got a lot done...
My back, my knees, and feet think so.
Since it was raining, I worked under our covered deck. I removed the orange and black hood, drilled out the rear vent covers, drilled out the lift shock attaching mounts, and moved the thing to the wal in the man cave part of the basement that I'm gonna hang that thing on like a big assed piece of art.
Then.......I grabbed the skanky hood, took it outside, and wire wheeled the funk off of the bottom. Cut the under brace off ( hits every freaking thing under it when it's closed) and cut the front aero catch mount holes in.
But,..that required..........collateral damage. I want the things in the same space that the stock hood bumpers are...and that area is double skinned. ( just like yours is)
You have to get to the bottom of the upper mount to add the backside reinforcement...I had to cut the structure away.
I can't weld it back either,..Id never be able to get at the back so,...I gotta figure somethin out.
After I got the holes cut in the hood for the Aerocatch thingys, I cut the back of the hood for the vents..got out the Clecos, and temp'd them in.
Then....I trashed the hood scoop.
Stupid piece of junk is supposed to fit some Chevrolet pickup...it don't fit the monster hood for sht. Ordinarily that's to be expected, there's always trimming that has to be done with any universal scoop.
Cept,...this wasn't universal..it's supposed to fit a piece of junk Chevrolet pickup. And,...it was supposed to be stuck on with that double sided 3m trim adhesive tape. And,..as much trimming as I had to do to get the thing to fit, it completely wiped out the ledge that you're supposed to stick the tape onto. How I'm gonna make it work will probably involve PBA, and bolts...
I'll glue them bitches to the scoop, and make it bolt on instead.
Getting the Aerocatch mount pins located proved to be a challenge..and as usual,..one of them needed " adjusting"..several times.,...when you look at the two of them you see one is significantly further back than the other...another hacked up alternative to the " measure twice, cut once" rule that I choose to ignore.
That almost brings me up to date..Leaving one small tidbit..
Knowing that I have bare metal, and bodywork in front of me. I go out on Sunday, and buy a qt of some junk primer, and it's respective reducer for 33 bucks from Oreillys. ( it is primer after all ) At the same time, and as much as I hate bodywork I would absolutely go ape sht If I was to have some unsatisfactory result if something was to prematurely fail..
So,...I take the 33 dollar junk back, and go out and get this junk instead....
That costs 5 times more money.
Damn you Dave...Damn you and your do it right the first time eyes.