MGB MGB front fender alignment question

[RickB]

My 70 BGT was damaged up front when the PO hit something.
The original aluminum hood took most of the impact, along with the windshield.

The right front fender has a dent at the very front but the rest is straight. However it appears to have been moved downward by about 1/2 inch up there, and this decreases to the back where it meets the windshield where it looks normal.

Where the door meets the fender there is about a 1/8 - 3/16 inch gap at the top and no gap at the bottom.

How would I go about trying to fix this? I can take care of the small dent in the front, but I'd like to know that I could maybe loosen some nuts and tweak the thing up a bit to align it.
Is this possible?

 

[kennypinkerton]

Might need to take it to a frame shop and have 'em stretch it back to spec.

 

[tony barnhill]

Check the square of the engine compartment (same way you check the square of a window opening in your house)...then pick a point on both fenders & measure up from the garage floor to see if they're both the same....if either measurement is out, time for a frame machine.

 

[RickB]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:]time for a frame machine[/QUOTE]

Oh joy.

Thanks guys.

 

[kennypinkerton]

I'd say a hit hard enough to break the windscreen is definately hard enough to twist the frame a bit. Call around. Might not be as expensive as you think.

 

[jlaird]

Frame twisting with the modern equipment is not too bad.

 

[RickB]

Whatever it was hit the center of the hood & the center of the windshield.
There is a dent at the edge of the fender right in the very front, looks like whatever hit the hood caught the tip of the fender.

It's about 3/8 inch below the level of the hood right there in the front then gradually decreases as you look back along the edge toward the door.

I'll try and get a picture up later today, I have some reunion thing SHE says I have to go to today instead of going to the All British Field Meet. Grr...