E136 Tri-Five Front Clip Sheet Metal Installation! 1956 Chevy Bel Air Restoration
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ก.พ. 2025
- How to install the front clip on a Tri-Five Chevy! In this episode, we install the front fenders, front wheel wells, fender skirts, radiator cradle, most everything forward of the firewall!
Bill Thomassie
"Christine" 1956 Chevy Bel Air
2-door Sedan Restoration
Music Credits:
"Greaser" by TrackTribe
• TrackTribe - "Greaser"...
TH-cam Standard License
I picked up a 56 this week, very helpful, thank you, looks like I have 135 episodes to get caught up.
This video will be So helpful for my buddy who's putting together his 55. Thanks Bill. Christine is looking beautiful 😍
It's not perfect instructions, but it'll help someone who's fumbling around!
Looking more complete all the time. Thanks Bill!
It is! I'm almost finished with the wiring and the dash is mostly assembled, so the interior is starting to look like 1956 again too!
Patient attitude is so helpful. It’s looking amazing and enjoyable to watch every episode.
Great job! We start on my brothers 55 by watching you and appreciating the build back to its glory days .
Yes! I just wish I was as patient as my edited videos make me out to be! LOL!!!
Your videos are awesome and I cant thank you enough! I have a 57 2 door sedan I'm working on and managed to score a set of Belair belt line trim but wasn't quite sure how it all went together. I started my sheet metal work and got the driver's floor board done, but then had a change of interest and started getting my 409 ready to build.
Thank you for the compliments!
This one of those now you tell me things. When you hang fenders run some painters tape on the edge of the door and the fender. That saves on the chips. I really like the progress. There should have been a mount and shims that came with your body bushing kit for the radiator support. Keep having fun.
There is a rubber pad that goes underneath it that's aboutv1/4" thick. Since it wasn't bolted, I was able to see that it was miraculously floating about that high and roughly centered once everything was buttoned up!
Looking great,your daring installing the fender without taping up the edges of the door and fender to prevent chipping of the paint.your more steady than me lol.
Yeah, I could have (should have) done that. I got away with it, but that wasn't the smartest way to work!
Looking good Bill, she’s really starting to look like a car again! I bought the same hardware kit for my 57 saves a lot of time chasing down nuts and bolts
I'm sold on it!
Great information, Thank you for showing this!
I hope one day it proves helpful to someone!
Looking Good!
It's coming out really good!
Haven't tuned in for a while. Great updates on the car and it really looks sweet.
It's coming out about as good as I had hoped!
Loving the videos. Inspiring me to get back to work on mine. I thought the rubber seals on a lot of the sheet metal parts were to stop squeaks. I think I have seen that seal kit sold as an anti-squeak kit.
Nice job she is really looking good!! Not much left on the exterior. Hopefully the wiring isn't too big a pain. Thx!!
I'm almost finished with the wiring and it's just been a lot of tedious work with a ton of planning done on the fly.
I'm going to order that hardware kit, even though my car is still all together. Probably may need some of those bolts. Also, I am purchasing a 'Thread Chaser Kit" to add to my tools. I have 'taps & dies' but sometimes you just need to clean the threads up and not take a chance on removing some metal. ;) At least that's what all the videos I watch say. ;) Good video. Sorry you are having the stress now of a completion date, rather than just easy enjoyment of restoration. ;) Good Video!!
I HIGHLY recommend this hardware kit! I would have never found all the bolts that I needed and even then some would have been cruddy and mis-matched.
looks great thanks
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Could have put stuck some weather stripping between those parts but like you said no one will ever see it looks really good
Thanks!
Just came across your channel tonight ---- got a whole lot to catch up on ---- but for now with this video ----- What company did you get the ---- Complete front sheet metal fasteners from? ---- Very nice all the bags were labeled ---- Your car looks very nice --- I'll have to go back to your beginning video ---- start crash watching ----- Looks Good ------ So - You 've got another subscriber ---- Hope you have a Good Weekend --- Rodney
@VintageCruiser-i6u Glad you're enjoying it! I think those came from H&H out of Arkansas... kit #532
Almost there
Almost, but not quite!
I’m so confused! I thought all the front sheet metal is supported at the front by the core support? As you put the fenders on what was supporting the weight of the front fenders? I’m guessing you depended on gravity keeping the core support in place and still used the core support to hold the weight? Seeing the core support wasn’t bolted to frame, how the heck didn’t it fall over? Whatever you did it worked! AND she looks so tough now! Great job Bill!
It is, but all the screws and bolts at the firewall (on top of the cowl, in front of the cowl, and at the rocker) are what's really holding it up in the air. What I never mentioned is that there is a factory rubber shim that is 1/4" that goes under the cradle. Even though its not bolted down, it's floating up about that high.
I wonder if the ‘55’s are supposed to have those lower fan shrouds? My project came to me as a “rolling basket case” and I don’t recall ever seeing those parts. Your car is looking good! Inching closer to completion!
I believe so. I don't think there was a fan shroud originally. Mine is an aluminum after-market piece that I put on many years ago. I think Chevy originally expected to shield everything around the fan so that the air came through the radiator. That's not positive enough for me. I love this aluminum shroud. It came from Ecklers.
Matadoor red & Inda Ivory!!! SWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEET!
Technically, it's GM "Pull Me Over Red", which is a color that's been on Chevy's Vettes and Camaros recently. But I agree that it's awesome looking!
I'd feel safer if you put a valve cover on that driver side, I know how nuts and bolts jump outta your hands. BTW I saw a TH-cam video 10-12 years ago on installing windshields on these tri 5's, can't find it but it shows similar problems
I have a moving blanket that I throw over the whole thing, but I'm getting close to putting the real covers on for exactly that reason.
our to the nerve wracking part ... seems to be fitting pretty good considering how gutted out the body really was ... keep after it ...
You're not kidding... this body was JUNK. It's rock solid now!
I heard that if the windshield side ends don't seem to fit right, It's not the car, It's crap aftermarket windshields!
I did rebuild both corners with new sheet metal and could have been off by maybe an eighth-inch, but not by as much as what I'm seeing. I can't say for sure that the new glass is the problem. The old glass fit similarly when I tried to put it back. I don't know.
i would assemble inner to outer fendes first .
Yep, that's exactly what this vid shows.
@@RestoringChristine1956 no your wrong . assemble inner and outer together first .
Look online you can buy. Its not that difficult.
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