How To Chop A Roof On A Truck

It took over a year to finish the roof chop on my car.

How to chop a roof on a truck.

Any fool can do this. This is where the quality of planning for the chop shows up. Make a small t with another cut. This is a top chop on a 1946 ford truck cab we did overnight in 3 hours with the nightshift crew there s a few tips in the video intended to make diy chops a little easier.

Weld support into windshield and rear glass opening as well as cross bracing so nothing moves. Hinge position and straightness of post determine where to make the cuts. Determine where to remove the crown on the roof i chose to remove height at the corners while adding flat material to the center of the roof. While every type of car is different the lessons here can be used on any car from technical points things to look for and things to take into consideration.

Turn the car over and score along the inside joint where the a pillar meets the roof. Sawz all nips off the metal left in the middle of door post. See all 21 photos. Continue toward the front of the car and be careful not to cut through to the upper overlapping metal.

Finally it can take up to a year to finish the bodywork on a bad roof chop. How to chop a top page 1 want to chop a top. Pay special attention to the way they handle the rear window trent chopping a 1947 ford club coupe. Remove finish put machinist blue dye on metal and scribe chop lines.

The nightshift at village customs rat rod shop. Use the electric grinder with the cut off wheel and start a cut on top. By simply removing a few inches from the front of the a pillar slicing a sliver from the cap and then deleting the overhang the roof of the truck will be drastically altered. 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.

It takes a month to finish weld the chop. Read this before you chop. By pete sanchez aka 49flatty. On roof quarters cut notches cut down to belt then out to windows.

Place some masking tape on a hard surface glass or a mirror works fine then cut a strip to uniform width. Carefully lay out cut lines. Put hose clamps on chop lines and use them as cutting guides. Cut to about 1 3 of the depth of the styrene to preserve strength while enabling the styrene to bend at the joint later in the chopping process.

What one ends up. Cut off roof skin at cut lines.