Fan shroud/body lift gap project complete

[MountaineerTom]

I finaly got around to finishing my fan shroud/body lift project and decided to take a few pics.  For those not sure what this is, after installing a body lift on the new body style trucks, you have a gap between the fan shroud and the radiator support.  It's caused by the body (and radiator/radiator support) being lifted, but the shroud stays in the stock location, like in the top pic.

 

The original before pic.

 

After painting.

 

And some various pics assembling it.  The pics of the lower shroud didn't turn out so good, kind of dark, and the rest of the lower shroud installed on the truck didn't turn out at all.  But if you can imaging pretty much the same thing on the bottom gap as on the top gap, then that's pretty much what it looks like.  I had to cut a couple notches in it to clear the brackets.  The stuff I made them out of can be seen laying across the work bench in the lower fan shroud pic (The silver piece laying under the edge of the shroud).  I don't actually know what it is used for, but it's some kind of thin aluminum that trims easily with tin snips and I found it at Lowe's, in the section where rain gutters are.  

 

 

And just for the #### of it, I took a pic of the gap down the drivers side.  I may try to rig something up for the sides sometime too.

 

[MarkD]

Looks good Tom

[Elwood]

Looks good Tom.