Took some time this morning and dug the spare passenger's door for my Monte out of its hiding/storage space behind my parts washer and dumped it onto my panel cradle for a little review. Issue here is that I have one brand new door skin for this door and both candidates, the heir and the spare, have obvious signs of lower skin to inner shell damage and repairs. What this means is that I will have to "skin" both doors and decide which one has the least damage and can be repaired easily. I do Not want an instant replay of the sturm und drang that I went through with the driver's side.
I did manage to remove most of the existing skin from the spare this afternoon, no pictures, but there is still the lower skin to shell seam to deal with and that is going to be a slug fest as most of the inner skin and outer skin are pretty much one and the same. These repairs go back to pre Miller days and I had to to a lot of workarounds to get something approximately useable. The repair of the repair may require a lot of material removal just to get to a point where the edges are solid and rust free and I can start to graft new metal into place.
At that point it will get set aside and the existing door on the car will be dismounted and the same exercise done with it. Once down to the bare inner shells I can compart them and decide which to choose or whether I go looking for still another candidate. Fun
Most of the pictures for all of this will likely get posted to my Project Regress thread as that is where anything about the Monte tends to get put.
Nick
I did manage to remove most of the existing skin from the spare this afternoon, no pictures, but there is still the lower skin to shell seam to deal with and that is going to be a slug fest as most of the inner skin and outer skin are pretty much one and the same. These repairs go back to pre Miller days and I had to to a lot of workarounds to get something approximately useable. The repair of the repair may require a lot of material removal just to get to a point where the edges are solid and rust free and I can start to graft new metal into place.
At that point it will get set aside and the existing door on the car will be dismounted and the same exercise done with it. Once down to the bare inner shells I can compart them and decide which to choose or whether I go looking for still another candidate. Fun
Most of the pictures for all of this will likely get posted to my Project Regress thread as that is where anything about the Monte tends to get put.
Nick
