1984 Chevy El Camino (Build Up and Progress)

[melman109]

Re: 1984 Chevy El Camino

Thats looking good fam!

 

[Dave V]

Re: 1984 Chevy El Camino

nice work its looking good....

 

[Longroof79]

Re: 1984 Chevy El Camino

Looks good man.
How were you able to make the filler piece fit close to flush with the surrounding tailgate? I cut out a piece of 18 ga. metal to fit the opening, bent and tweaked it so it conformed with the shape. But it tends to sit slightly lower than the flanged portion of the tailgate. I'd hate like hell to have to fill it with 5lbs of bondo in order to flow with the shape of the tailgate.

I'm not trying to be critical. Just trying to learn something.

 

[L.A.X-RATED]

Re: 1984 Chevy El Camino

That's west up.you got an ese pLAying catch-u :!: p!.i just ordered mine(rollpan) from" truck stop" i think i got a good deal,323.00 to the door?there a vendor out in the i.e.somewhere(riverside or fontana i believe) that carey's gc products.nehoo time to start burning some 0.23,feel me :wink: looking great gracias for the reference pics :idea:

 

[LSCustoms]

Re: 1984 Chevy El Camino

Looks good man.
How were you able to make the filler piece fit close to flush with the surrounding tailgate? I cut out a piece of 18 ga. metal to fit the opening, bent and tweaked it so it conformed with the shape. But it tends to sit slightly lower than the flanged portion of the tailgate. I'd hate like hell to have to fill it with 5lbs of bondo in order to flow with the shape of the tailgate.

I'm not trying to be critical. Just trying to learn something.

not quite understanding what you are asking me... can you clarify your question?

 

[LSCustoms]

Re: 1984 Chevy El Camino

some feathering out with sanding and then body filler to get it as straight as possible today before work... i dont really care if this is perfect or not, im going to be getting another tailgate and modifying it the way i want , hiding some lights, etc... so this just needs to be good enough and straight enough for now...lol
the part where the plate was is all metal, just posting this pic to show that...

 

[Longroof79]

Re: 1984 Chevy El Camino

Looks good man.
How were you able to make the filler piece fit close to flush with the surrounding tailgate? I cut out a piece of 18 ga. metal to fit the opening, bent and tweaked it so it conformed with the shape. But it tends to sit slightly lower than the flanged portion of the tailgate. I'd hate like hell to have to fill it with 5lbs of bondo in order to flow with the shape of the tailgate.

I'm not trying to be critical. Just trying to learn something.

not quite understanding what you are asking me... can you clarify your question?

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I guess what I was trying to say is, the piece of sheetmetal used to fill the opening seems to fit lower than the flanged opening of the tailgate. Therefore, wouldn't it take more body filler to level out the filled area and tailgate?
Unless of course the flange area was trimmed away and the sheetmetal piece was butt welded to the tailgate.

Perhaps I'm making more of an issue out of it. Thanks for bearing with me.

 

[LSCustoms]

Re: 1984 Chevy El Camino

I guess what I was trying to say is, the piece of sheetmetal used to fill the opening seems to fit lower than the flanged opening of the tailgate. Therefore, wouldn't it take more body filler to level out the filled area and tailgate?
Unless of course the flange area was trimmed away and the sheetmetal piece was butt welded to the tailgate.

Perhaps I'm making more of an issue out of it. Thanks for bearing with me.

dont mind the questions, just wanna make sure i know what you are talking about, when you say "filler piece" are you talkin about the entire roll pan piece. are you talking about the top of it being flush with the bottom of the tailgate, or am i still missing your question, mine sits pretty flush and i lessened the gap between them, is their a pic i have that illustrates your point?

 

[LSCustoms]

Re: 1984 Chevy El Camino

I guess what I was trying to say is, the piece of sheetmetal used to fill the opening seems to fit lower than the flanged opening of the tailgate. Therefore, wouldn't it take more body filler to level out the filled area and tailgate?
Unless of course the flange area was trimmed away and the sheetmetal piece was butt welded to the tailgate.

Perhaps I'm making more of an issue out of it. Thanks for bearing with me.

you must be talking about just the license plate piece?

 

[LSCustoms]

Re: 1984 Chevy El Camino

Looks good man.
How were you able to make the filler piece fit close to flush with the surrounding tailgate? I cut out a piece of 18 ga. metal to fit the opening, bent and tweaked it so it conformed with the shape. But it tends to sit slightly lower than the flanged portion of the tailgate. I'd hate like hell to have to fill it with 5lbs of bondo in order to flow with the shape of the tailgate.

I'm not trying to be critical. Just trying to learn something.

16ga would prob work better here, but even with any piece of metal after cutting it to the contour of the bigger hole, not the countersunk part... you want to tack it flush, not flat against the inner piece, so even if you piece is thinner than the lip, you can use a magnet to hold the edges flush and then tack it, does that make sense?