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If it were my car, I'd bring it to a "good" body shop lest you
make the damage worse then it already is.
John
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2002 12:56
PM
Subject: IML: Body repair/sheet metal
Q?
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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Kenyon Wills
6o LeBaron - America's Most
Carefully Built Car
73 LeBaron - Long Low &
Luxurious
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