In this photo, 8" inches of the noes has been removed to fix a few crushes along the driver's headlight and the point in the center was banged in pretty badly. A former own drilled a lot of small slide-hammer holes to try to pull the tip out.
I removed most of the outer front nose panel skin from the heavily rusted and bent out of shape inner valance. The target is to remove the inner valance and headlight support bracket.
Exposed is the headlight support bracket on the top and the inner valance at the lower half. This is before the removal.
Side view of most of the inner valance removed. The hard part is removing the part in which it is connected to the frame. I'm am going to finish removing the headlight support bracket so that getting to the top of the beam would be simpler.
Front view of the removal. I mostly used a plasma cutter to remove most of the metal and a cutoff wheel when control was required.
Here is all the scrap removed. Stay tuned.
Getting the bottom valance off the bumper support beams is not an easy task. After another 2 hours, i'm basically still in the same situation. In this photo below, I removed 80% of the metal off the bumper support beam and I have the headlight support bracket detached from the passenger's side. I've decided to remove it to have access to straighten it out. It had been impacted by the minor accident.
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