How To Chop A Roof On A Truck

By chopping just the front of the a pillars and the cap of the roof on these trucks one can actually end up with a 4 inch chop without ever touching the doors side glass back glass or jambs.

How to chop a roof on a truck.

See more ideas about rat rods truck rat rod pickup hot rod pickup. Use the electric grinder with the cut off wheel and start a cut on top. Sep 18 2019 explore jeremy hall s board roof chop on pinterest. Pay special attention to the way they handle the rear window trent chopping a 1947 ford club coupe.

Make a small t with another cut. Finish cutting the bottom metal from the t cut. Any fool can do this. It takes one weekend to chop the top and tack weld it back on.

By pete sanchez aka 49flatty. It took over a year to finish the roof chop on my car. Continue toward the front of the car and be careful not to cut through to the upper overlapping. See all 21 photos.

Read this before you chop. Seriously if the doors don t fit right before you cut the roof off a car i can assure you that they won t fit after you weld it back on and the results could be permanent. It takes a month to finish weld the chop. Finally it can take up to a year to finish the bodywork on a bad roof chop.

The previous cuts will allow you to see where the metal needs to cut from inside the vehicle.