I purchased a new 8 inch nose replacement panel to repair the center nose that normally gets smashed in at some point by some driver poor at parking. This is the Green Stuff. It comes with a weld-thru green primer to prevent corrosion.
This is a very used front nose panel that I purchased online (p2). The unit was advertised to be used as wall-art, Go figure! Who in the hell would use a split bus nose as wall-art?
Anyway, I had other intentions for it. I needed the section to the left of the light bucket and to the right of the bucket (p5). The area to the right of the bucket, on my current nose was damaged (as seen in p1). The complexity of the curve didn't allow for me to straighten it out by a stud hammer. So, rather than using filler like how it was originally setup, I'll cut it out and replace it with the downer.
(p3)
I had to remove the rusty bottom, it bothered me greatly, even though, it was not my area of interest. By blocking out the areas that I want to protect with a marker, I let the cutting begin. Please see my cutting videos at the end of of this section.
(p5)
(p4)
Photos p4 and p5 shows the downer areas sized up to the location in which they will be graphed. I will attempt to repair the left-side of the light bucket with a hammer and dolly before cutting it and replacing the sheet metal.
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