What an informative video. Thank you. Seriously, i aa just now in the process of cutting the drip rails off my 68 C10 and yoir way of doing is hands down the best presentation ive warched. Im following your guidelines exactly. I deeply appreciate you.
I just purchased the 71 Chevelle Malibu and for the life of me I've never seen drip rails rest out on a Chevelle and very little rust in the rest of the car except for the corners of the rear window any usual driver side and passenger side floor so anything's repairable and the work you've done here is really encouraging thank you
Amazing! Tearing down the Falcon the other night and thought ‘I wonder if I could shave those drip rails off?’. It’s how I imagined it would be done, I just wasn’t sure if it was a bad idea. Thanks for making the video and giving me the last bit of confidence, as well as a few pointers, to get going on it!
I think I might have to do this to my car. I don't have the skills to make new drip rails and mine are so rusty they are basically self shaving themselves haha. I was a bit reluctant to do it but I like your idea here of flush mounting that piece and I might steal it for my car it seems like a nice compromise between nothing and a full rail.
Would like to remove the drip rails on my 68 chevelle due to rust. Theres not enough metal left of the drip rail to weld back to the roof. What type of metal should I use in its place?
Thanks - I’m not sure I understand where you are referring to. The roof skin does not move up or down, so the welds are in a similar location to the original spot welds.
Hey Mr. Allison, Which Method Did You Use? Did You Either Stich Weld, Lay A Continuous Weld Down The Top, Or Did You Let The Body Shop Work It For The Smooth Transition...? Thank You
It was welded using hundreds (thousands) of tack welds. A few tacks in one area, then move a foot away and do it again. Let it all cool then go back and start again. This process can take a few days, but helps to eliminate warpage. The body shop then used a panel adhesive to finish the edge of the gutter face, where it met the roof. This gave a very nice, finished look and added an additional level of moisture protection.
Because when it rains the drip rails actually caused the droplets to be pulled in towards them. Now that you shaved them off the rain is going to randomly fall all over that car now
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What an informative video. Thank you.
Seriously, i aa just now in the process of cutting the drip rails off my 68 C10 and yoir way of doing is hands down the best presentation ive warched. Im following your guidelines exactly.
I deeply appreciate you.
Glad it helped! Thanks for commenting!
I just purchased the 71 Chevelle Malibu and for the life of me I've never seen drip rails rest out on a Chevelle and very little rust in the rest of the car except for the corners of the rear window any usual driver side and passenger side floor so anything's repairable and the work you've done here is really encouraging thank you
I’m glad you found the video encouraging! Good luck on your’s!
Amazing! Tearing down the Falcon the other night and thought ‘I wonder if I could shave those drip rails off?’. It’s how I imagined it would be done, I just wasn’t sure if it was a bad idea. Thanks for making the video and giving me the last bit of confidence, as well as a few pointers, to get going on it!
Great video, thank you so much for making it
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching!
Great video! Thanks for sharing all those details!!
Thanks for watching!
Love the idea on the drip rails might do that on my 68 Chevelle thanks
I think I might have to do this to my car. I don't have the skills to make new drip rails and mine are so rusty they are basically self shaving themselves haha. I was a bit reluctant to do it but I like your idea here of flush mounting that piece and I might steal it for my car it seems like a nice compromise between nothing and a full rail.
Go for it! I sure liked the way this one came out.
Would like to remove the drip rails on my 68 chevelle due to rust. Theres not enough metal left of the drip rail to weld back to the roof. What type of metal should I use in its place?
Any mild steel will work, I like 18 gauge. For better rust protection, you could also use galvannealed steel. It’s better for welding than galvanized.
looking good Jeff. I used the drip rails from a camaro to rework mine. not shaved, but look kinda like stock.
Every little change makes it more your own!
Looks really good! When you weld the bottom is that hitting the edge of the rear roof like where the roof line used to be.
Thanks - I’m not sure I understand where you are referring to. The roof skin does not move up or down, so the welds are in a similar location to the original spot welds.
My old ford has rubber pinched in between the sheet metal... did your car?
There was something like tar paper behind the C-pillar, and some rubber type product under the dutchman panel.
Hey Mr. Allison, Which Method Did You Use? Did You Either Stich Weld, Lay A Continuous Weld Down The Top, Or Did You Let The Body Shop Work It For The Smooth Transition...? Thank You
It was welded using hundreds (thousands) of tack welds. A few tacks in one area, then move a foot away and do it again. Let it all cool then go back and start again. This process can take a few days, but helps to eliminate warpage. The body shop then used a panel adhesive to finish the edge of the gutter face, where it met the roof. This gave a very nice, finished look and added an additional level of moisture protection.
Hope water doesnt leak into ur glass
Because when it rains the drip rails actually caused the droplets to be pulled in towards them. Now that you shaved them off the rain is going to randomly fall all over that car now
It doesn’t
It’s crazy how the engineers were able to design those things.
So ur telling me that u would shave the drip rails off a All Numbers # Big Block
I would shave the drip rails off any car, if the customer wants it done.
Video is to vague.
in what way?