February 26th, 2012 | 09:36 PM
#1
Joined: Feb 2012
Posts: 73
From: Meadows Place TX 77477
Front "clip"...
Newbie question...
What exactly does it mean when someone says the front "clip"?
I have seen a lot of posts were they removed the front clip but can't figure out exactly what they mean.
Thanks for your patience.
February 26th, 2012 | 09:38 PM
#2
Joined: Sep 2006
Posts: 13,848
From: Medford, Oregon
When I hear front clip I think of the front fenders, inner fender liners, the core support and sometimes the grill. If you unbolt the fenders from the cowl, the core support from the frame, a few other minor details... then you can lift off this assembly as a unit. John
February 27th, 2012 | 02:35 AM
#3
Joined: Jan 2007
Posts: 5,468
From: Chicago
Front clip is fenders, inner fenders, hood, core support, and loaded header panel.
Many people mess this up by calling the header panel the front clip, when in fact it is not.
February 27th, 2012 | 03:55 AM
#4
Joined: Sep 2010
Posts: 21,183
From: The Hudson Valley
+1.
The whole front body forward of the doors. Comes right off at the junk yard with fairly few fasteners, and can be stacked on large outdoor shelves for later retrieval.
- Eric
February 27th, 2012 | 10:11 AM
#5
Joined: Mar 2007
Posts: 48,469
From: Northern VA
Originally Posted by MDchanic
+1.
The whole front body forward of the doors. Comes right off at the junk yard with fairly few fasteners, and can be stacked on large outdoor shelves for later retrieval.
- Eric
Well. that's the way it USED to be with body-on-frame cars. Not so easy now with unibody construction.
February 27th, 2012 | 11:00 AM
#6
Joined: Sep 2010
Posts: 21,183
From: The Hudson Valley
Originally Posted by joe_padavano
Well. that's the way it USED to be with body-on-frame cars.
Okay, so it's been a while since I worked in a junk yard... 
- Eric
February 27th, 2012 | 12:38 PM
#7
Joined: May 2011
Posts: 253
From: Flushing mi.
most yards now have a saw and cut them through the windshield post and across the floor.Tha saw is 2 cycle just like a chain saw but the blade is more od a diamond cutoff disk about 15 " across.You dont want to argue with one.
February 27th, 2012 | 04:50 PM
#8
Joined: Jul 2006
Posts: 4,430
From: Northeast Ohio
The front clip can also be called the "doghouse".
Like when you take it off the car and set it out in the yard and let the dog live under it.
February 27th, 2012 | 04:53 PM
#9
Joined: Sep 2010
Posts: 21,183
From: The Hudson Valley
Originally Posted by Bluevista
Like when you take it off the car and set it out in the yard and let the dog live under it.
You been lookin' in my yard again?!? Leave my dog outta this!
- Eric
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