Keynon, the problem is that the metal is bent along
the outside of the dish. When you pull it out you are
not releasing the stress built up in the bend. You
might try tapping around the outer edge of the dish
while you pull outward with your hook. Failing that
you are going to have to get access to the back side.
There is a bodywork forum at metalshapers.org in the
autorestoration forum.
Kerry
--- kenyon wills <imperialist60@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> my 1960 was rubbed by another car's bumper at some
> time in
> ancient history. There is a gouge/dent that goes
> across
> the DS rear door and continues into the rear quarter
> panel
> above the R wheel. I am stripping the car and will
> repaint
> it, so this is a full-on paint project, not a local
> area
> repair.
>
> I can fill in the gouge, but an area the size of a
> manila
> mailing envelope is pushed in perhaps an inch in a
> very
> mild depression. The entire panel with the enveolpe
> sized
> depression is gigantic and is under the fin on the
> side of
> the car.
>
> When I grab the panel with a slide hammer or a hook
> through
> the trim mount hole and pull on it, trying to bow it
> back
> out, it "biongs" out into the correct shape but then
> springs back to its bent form. I tried to pull
> really hard
> on it, but it is not taking to manual or
> slide-hammer pulls
> because it is not a small crease, but a large curved
> depression.
>
> I figure that I can either:
>
> drill a hole through the body and the interior
> wheelwell
> sheetmetal (there's a 1/4" gap between them). I can
> then
> use a bolt with a really large washer or even a
> piece of
> wood to distribute the pressure, and then connect a
> come-along to it and pull/bend the panel out to the
> shape
> that I want, reversing the pressure of impact.
>
> OR
>
> remove the rear wheel and use a scissors jack inside
> the
> weel well to push/bend the panel outwards from the
> inside,
> deforming the wheel well metal in the process, which
> is
> just fine as long as it looks OK on the outside,
> which I
> think that it will.
>
> Any other suggestions before I start using force on
> this
> large-surface area panel?
>
> Do you know the address for the body work Email club
> that
> has been mentioned?
>
>
>
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