Cowl repair

You are not alone!

Mine is rusted out on both sides where the vent boxes are, the whole "ring" where the heater box mounts is gone. It's also rotted out where the fenders meet the cowl from the top down and there is virtually no metal left behind the plates that the hood springs/torsion bars mount. :(

I'm have a feeling I'm going to end up replacing mine a few times, because I've yet to find an entire inner and outer cowl; I pretty much need the whole thing. I need to fix it somehow before the floors rot out again.

I figure the first time around I'm going to lap weld patches and totally seal off the cowl from the inside around and not install the factory heater box stuff but instead go with a Mojave compact heater. That should last for a few years until I can afford to take it to someone brave enough to cut the outside off and fix it the right way.