Finally, I am able to get back into reporting on the Build. I moved into a new house and traveled to spend some time with our grandchildren, so the time off was well spent. The current project is to remount the front splitter to allow for proper ground clearance when the suspension is set to the proper ride height. When I set up the suspension height, I look at the splitter and saw that I had a really good asphalt shovel. It needed to be changed.
I have been working on this for a few days, but held off reporting on it because I wanted to make sure it was going to work. I am doing this differently than others have reported, and they are experts and I am a novice.
I decided to leave the body mounted and only remove the splitter, battery box, and unbolt the radiator mounts, the horn mounts and the battery charger mounts.
With the splitter removed, the vertical portion of the body above the splitter was 3 inches. I wanted to remove 2 inches. With that in mind, knowing we are dealing with a complex curved surface, I drilled a hole so that the top of the hole was tangent to the 2 inch mark at the center of the body. I used a bolt in the hole, as well as two holes to the side of the body that were already there, to serve as "stakes" to attach a tight string. The string would be my cut line, but it had to be taped off. The center point was an absolute, but the side points were just an approximation on the conservative side.