 Re: My Early Dodge | Joined: Oct 2009 Posts: 313 enthusiast |  enthusiast Joined: Oct 2009 Posts: 313 | Has anyone ever widened a van before? I'm thinking that by adding 8, 10, or even 12 inches would solve some problems, such as bigger dog houses, wider seats, more room inside, and fatter tires. would give a chopped van a wild look. Just curious! I remember an article in one of my old van magazines where somebody widened a Dodge maxivan somewhere around 12-18 inches. It was a display vehicle for a van furniture company. They did it so they would be able to fit more seats inside. It really didn't look good in my opinion. | | | Re: My Early Dodge | Joined: Jun 2009 Posts: 3,565 pooh-bah | | pooh-bah Joined: Jun 2009 Posts: 3,565 | Yux has one (camper I believe?) that was originally a whole van and they split the back "box" section in half and fatted that up... so it's the same original sheet metal, only wider (but just in the back half). I'll see if I can find a pic.
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| | | Re: My Early Dodge | Joined: Feb 2008 Posts: 3,586 Likes: 1 pooh-bah | | pooh-bah Joined: Feb 2008 Posts: 3,586 Likes: 1 | Has anyone ever widened a van before? I'm thinking that by adding 8, 10, or even 12 inches would solve some problems, such as bigger dog houses, wider seats, more room inside, and fatter tires. would give a chopped van a wild look. Just curious! Glass ( windshiled )would be a problem , i would start a new thread on this topic as its a major highjack to Kens Thread . | | | Re: My Early Dodge | Joined: Jun 2009 Posts: 3,565 pooh-bah | | pooh-bah Joined: Jun 2009 Posts: 3,565 | Sorry Ken! You weren't using this thread were you? 
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| | | Re: My Early Dodge | Joined: Oct 2001 Posts: 28,125 Madman! | | OP Madman! Joined: Oct 2001 Posts: 28,125 | You guys are too much. If you lower the roof enough the van will look wider  A little progress over this past weekend. Not as much as I had planned, but I got the dash out. I didn't take any pictures, but I will. I'm not sure whose brilliant idea it was to weld the dash in, but what a pain in the ass it is to get it our when everything is rusty. Anyway, if anyone want to tackle doing this it's best to start at the windshield frame. Glass needs to be out. Use a blair tool to drill out all the spot welds around the lower frame. I cut mine at the inner edge to have a flange to mount my future custom dash to. Then on the drivers side and passenger side the dash is spot welded to the inner front door frames. There is a 3" long 'L' bracket that is welded to the dash and welded to the door frame. This 'L' is tacked, but it also has a bead weld about 1/2" long near a hole in the framework. Then there is a 2" long tab that is part of the door frame. The dash is also tacked to that tab with 2 or 3 welds. Mind you it's not bad drilling, but my dash was completely gutted. You would need to remove everything from the dash in order to get it out. After all was said and done (dash out) I thought I prolly should have just cut it out. The dash itself is in decent shape, but the door posts on my van are pretty bad. They will be changed as soon as I find a good donor. | | | Re: My Early Dodge | Joined: Jun 2009 Posts: 3,565 pooh-bah | | pooh-bah Joined: Jun 2009 Posts: 3,565 | Sounds like some good progress Ken! 
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| | | Re: Chopping My Early Dodge | Joined: Mar 2008 Posts: 2,254 veteran | | veteran Joined: Mar 2008 Posts: 2,254 | Making proress I see, I believe they welded in the dash for support since it is unibody. My van also has the dash welded in and it is for support.
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