How To Chop A Roof On A Truck
It takes a month to finish weld the chop.
How to chop a roof on a truck. Make a small t with another cut. Finish cutting the bottom metal from the t cut. Read this before you chop. The previous cuts will allow you to see where the metal needs to cut from inside the vehicle.
It takes one weekend to chop the top and tack weld it back on. Finally it can take up to a year to finish the bodywork on a bad roof chop. By pete sanchez aka 49flatty. See more ideas about rat rods truck rat rod pickup hot rod pickup.
Sep 18 2019 explore jeremy hall s board roof chop on pinterest. How to chop a top page 1 want to chop a top. Any fool can do this. By chopping just the front of the a pillars and the cap of the roof on these trucks one can actually end up with a 4 inch chop without ever touching the doors side glass back glass or jambs.
Pay special attention to the way they handle the rear window trent chopping a 1947 ford club coupe. See all 21 photos. Use the electric grinder with the cut off wheel and start a cut on top. This is where the quality of planning for the chop shows up.
Seriously if the doors don t fit right before you cut the roof off a car i can assure you that they won t fit after you weld it back on and the results could be permanent.