The Grill Surround

This is the start to fill in the side panels to the new grill. We used 1/4" material for the grill surround and will be filled in with 3/8" bars. 

We lowered the gravel pan down 1"and need to do some work on the bumper bracket openings to match up with the gravel pan.

This is one of the new side insert that will fill in the body to the grill.

Starting the welding in process. A lot lot lot of some tack welds. The first of many.

The new grill will part of the body unlike the original.

The bottom gravel pan will also become part of the grill surround. We also decided to lower the bumper brackets. 

The gravel pan with a new body line that matches the sides and the bumper brackets lowered. With a lot lot lot more tack welds.

Close up

We didn't like the straight body line on the top so we decided to add some curve that would match the body line on the truck. 

This is the actual line that we used.

When Chris started to work on the new body line we ran into the factory lead seam. this is after he removed the lead. 

These are a series of shots of the new metal work to achieve the new body line. Also had to rework the lower corners of the new hood.

One side done one more to go.

Needed to do some work on the hood to close up some of the gaps.

The next pictures are of the new look. We are anxious to get the grill done to get the final look.