I am missing a piece that was welded to the window frame area and the went down on inside of the interior. But have not found what it is called. At least I believe to have a piece missing. Remember breaking off a rusted piece of metal years ago. Could someone confirm?
I don't know much about the anode clips other than they were sacrificial so most are long gone by now. They weren't in the interior though, just in the window channel. There's a photo in the link I posted in case you missed it..
I believe you are missing a piece. I would call it a "cap" although I've never seen it reproduced. I assume it is spot welded in place. Here's a few pics from my 67.
That looks like what I removed a long time ago as it was rusted where it meets the window channel. Wish I knew it was not reproduced at that time, would have tried to save it. Thanks for confirming. Will try to look through catalogs for it in case it does show up
Received a piece that has that section included. Now wondering if better to just cut the section needed and weld in after clean up or replace the whole piece. Leaning towards clean up and welding in only the missing section.
The pic shows the window channel bed is shot. That bed is spotwelded. After you cut out just the bed and correctly prepare the substructure, how were you going to attach your replacement to the window channel riser where the molding studs are? How solid is the rest of the Dutchman panel? Sometimes replacing part of a panel is inferior and more time consuming than replacing an entire panel.
Replacing the whole piece will be easier and less time consuming. Only thought of trying to do partial is to keep most of the original intact. Would have to remove damaged area, slowly stitch weld and then smooth the transition.
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