73 omega Rear quarter damage
#1
73 omega Rear quarter damage
What should be my plan of attack here, the rest of the panel has only surface rust
-Hammer and dolly
-just cut out only bad area
- or replace whole quarter, all the way to roof
#2
How accessible is that panel? Doesn’t look horrendous perhaps get a stud welder and pull on it with a slide hammer etc definitely should be able to hammer and dolly. It all depends on how comfortable you are with body work . Replacing the quarter also involves lots of work tell us a little more about what your comfortable doing .
#4
The only real bad thing I see is the crimp just below the window. That might be harder to pull with a stud welder. I personally would not try to straighten the quarter just because of that. And unless you are real comfortable with replacing panels, I would have that part done by a professional.
#5
That said
The only real bad thing I see is the crimp just below the window. That might be harder to pull with a stud welder. I personally would not try to straighten the quarter just because of that. And unless you are real comfortable with replacing panels, I would have that part done by a professional.
https://www.summitracing.com/parts/o...SABEgKxrfD_BwE
this may be the best way to go,
#6
If the metal is in good shape repair it. Old panels are much nicer to work with . I have done worse and it comes down to how your metal skills are. What tools you have and so on and so forth. Working old metal is much nicer than new cars because these new cars have engineered steel that does not like to go back into shape. The old mild steel panels you can shrink and stretch the metal till the cows come home. If the metal is good I would not repair. Cant stress that enough
Last edited by coppercutlass; December 25th, 2018 at 10:49 AM.
#7
I'm a body man by trade and love metal work. As long as i can keep my filler under 1\8 thick which is the safe margin i will repair but good metal has to he done . people see big areas of filler and think mud bucket but you can skom an entire panel. The thickness is what makes it bad.
Thread
Thread Starter
Forum
Replies
Last Post