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Started by Old Tired Rebel, March 29, 2013, 11:28:43 PM

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Old Tired Rebel

How hard is this to be fixed?






JB400

With a hammer, dolly, welder, knowledge, and some patience, not hard.  How many of these things are you missing?

Fred

Quote from: stroker400 wedge on March 30, 2013, 12:10:20 AM
With a hammer, dolly, welder, knowledge, and some patience, not hard. 

And plenty of competence.
If you don't know what you're doing it might pay to let someone who knows tackle it.   :Twocents:


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Old Tired Rebel

Quote from: stroker400 wedge on March 30, 2013, 12:10:20 AM
With a hammer, dolly, welder, knowledge, and some patience, not hard.  How many of these things are you missing?

The driver side is the only one that is rotted.other than the areas I already know about..

JB400

Just to let you in on a secret, I was being a little sarcastic with the question :rofl:  All is good though. :2thumbs:

tan top

if you can get another chunk on a post from somewhere  thats rust / rot free & carefully unpick all the spot welds  , not difficult to splice a bit in  , just time consuming to do a factory appearing job ,
  be a little quicker fabricating your own bit  maybe :scratchchin:  , wont know the full extent till you cut every thing out & clean it up to shiney metal ,  is that the only bit rotted ?
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Baldwinvette77

i had to do this on both sides of my corvette (yes im aware vettes aren't chargers) i find it easier to make multiple small peices and stitch them together, if that were my car, i would start cutting out the junk with a cutoff wheel to a point where i wouldn't butcher up anything else, then finish off the cuts with tin snips,then grind them clean, you may have remove a section of the a-pillar before you can fix the rocker, so you may need to brace it, if you know how to weld it's not very hard, the most difficult part is removing the metal, 2nd hardest is making new parts (which is rather easy), the rest is just welding them in, or at least thats how i view rust repair  :popcrn:

just a tip for you if you dont already know it, for your small patch panels, tack weld a bolt or steel rod to it, to use as a temporary handled, once you have the piece where you want it, weld it on and break off your handle.

Old Tired Rebel

Quote from: Baldwinvette77 on March 30, 2013, 08:44:24 PM
i had to do this on both sides of my corvette (yes im aware vettes aren't chargers) i find it easier to make multiple small peices and stitch them together, if that were my car, i would start cutting out the junk with a cutoff wheel to a point where i wouldn't butcher up anything else, then finish off the cuts with tin snips,then grind them clean, you may have remove a section of the a-pillar before you can fix the rocker, so you may need to brace it, if you know how to weld it's not very hard, the most difficult part is removing the metal, 2nd hardest is making new parts (which is rather easy), the rest is just welding them in, or at least thats how i view rust repair  :popcrn:

just a tip for you if you dont already know it, for your small patch panels, tack weld a bolt or steel rod to it, to use as a temporary handled, once you have the piece where you want it, weld it on and break off your handle.

Good Idea and thanks. I have one question I thought vettes were fiberglass except the frame?

green69rt


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