So the past couple of days I've been working on the passenger door. Im not sure whether or not they will turn out so good, but i'll finish it and determine then If im going to start over.
From the start the first thing I did was remove the door hinge area sheet metal, it wasn't so bad nothing im not used to. I had already decided to use the gray passenger door for the patch, after brutally removing the needed piece I realized I probably should have just fixed the gray door instead.
The removed patchwork from the previous repair
And here it is cleaned back to good metal with the new patch on top.
After removing the patch piece I realized the gray door was in much better shape and I should have just repaired It instead. This is behind the sheet metal of the gray door after drilling out the spot welds MUCH cleaner
And after spending a whole night fitting it and welding it and grinding it, I now made this green door no better then the gray one I just cut up since both doors needed the bottom Inners replaced any way.
Here is said bottom, had it bent up by an old friend.
And after some grinding' this is what Im rewarded with. If I hadn't cut up the better door I would be so sour about it since it turned out pretty decent.
Now with the thing flipped over I had to find a solution for the outer skin. Since this is the part that will actually show im a little more worried about it.
You can kinda see the low spots in this skin when you look down it, Which is a repop door skin. You can also see the gray door under the back of the car hacked up.
Bad skin confirmed by the liberal use of bondo, about 1/16" thick. theres hardly any near the body line 1/3 the way up.
This is were Im at today. I called this afternoon to get the lower replacement panels for the doors but they only have the drivers side and it will have to be ordered a new full skin is $330 ish Canadian from Gbody parts before shipping and all the other nonsense. So I cut out a piece of sheet metal that ill get bent along the bottom and maybe It won't turn out so bad. My biggest worry is that the bottom curveture will end up flat and after all the welding and grinding, and the crappy skin already on there with low spots. Ill' have too use a bunch of filler to make it look right.
I did However find this
http://www.highwaystars.net/body-ex...&sort=featured&category=68&is_category_page=1
They sell a skin for $120 US might be a viable option but I've never heard of them before. Wouldn't be surprised if the skin was the same one sold everywere else. Anybody here ever use one from them?
