Nose panels

So with all the pain on the nose stripped off, and the body filler used by the PO's body shop to hide the rust in the infamous nose panel removed, we can see what we are dealing with.

The ends do not look too bad.  You can see where the body shop used a whizzer to grind away seam rust, and then coated with body filler to hide it.  I am of the school of thought that it is better to remove the offending panel.

Ahhh, there is the start of the rot.

And there it is in all its pure unadulterated ugliness.

I used a whizzer and a sawzall to 'carefully remove the metal at the base of the inward angle of the upper panel.  Then a hammer and chisel to remove the spot welds and material on the bottom of the bumper support.

I have the new panel, and will need to do some grinding to remove the remainder of the spot welds, and then some sandblasting to get a good clean surface to weld the new panel.  BTW, the new panel was purchased from Bus Depot, but I have also seen them listed at CIP1.

More photos when I do the install.