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RichJohnson Member
Joined: Apr 15, 2005 Posts: 162 Location: San Diego CA
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Posted: Sun Jul 10, 2005 6:23 pm Post subject: m38a1 body work |
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I recieved my replacement body today, it needs the front 2 forward facing hat channels under the cowel replaced, as well as the plates on the cowel seen to be bent downward tward each other. Im really wondering how the $&% im gonna fix that, Where can I get repo hat channels. |
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Bob_C Site Administrator
Joined: Apr 03, 2005 Posts: 271 Location: Chester County, PA
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Posted: Sun Jul 10, 2005 6:57 pm Post subject: |
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Army Jeep Parts (armyjeepparts.com) sells them. Just ask Nick or George there for them. They're really nice - and I wanted to say cost about 220$ (however dont quote me. I'm just going off of memory) for both the passanger and driver side - and they're complete. My hat channels were virtually gone when I got the jeep - so this was a huge time saver. _________________ Bob Collins
1954 M38A1 MD79056 |
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RichJohnson Member
Joined: Apr 15, 2005 Posts: 162 Location: San Diego CA
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Posted: Sun Jul 10, 2005 8:40 pm Post subject: |
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Wow thats pretty expensive, I only want the two front hat channels, they are like 8 inches each, they project forward, not all the hat channels. Im not gonna spend 220 bucks for them. Ille just cut them off and forget them. The orignal body, still on my jeep they are totally gone and it seems pretty stable. |
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OKCM38CDN Guest
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Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2005 3:21 pm Post subject: |
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Call Jeep Panels Plus... He can make shorter ones, you got nothing to lose... |
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Jeff_H Member
Joined: Apr 16, 2005 Posts: 62 Location: Winnipeg Canada
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Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2005 7:21 pm Post subject: |
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You can also try cutting the old ones off and taking them to a local sheet metal place and see what they would charge to make some new ones out of 18 gauge steel. shouldn't be to much.
JH |
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Cacti_Ken Member
Joined: Apr 20, 2005 Posts: 1021 Location: Silsbee, Texas
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Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2005 6:55 am Post subject: |
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I found that a local sheet metal shop wanted to charge me a heck of a lot more than Jeep Panels Plus. _________________ Tropical Veteran
35th Inf. Reg. "CACTI" 4th I.D. VN
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