Sunday. Beautiful day, but really windy. I removed all the spot welds I could reach without taking off the bumper...that dreaded chore. I first had to remove my trailer hitch. Should be pretty simple, just six bolts. Well there's always one bolt that gives you a hard time. I spent about an hour trying to remove this one bolt. The more I loosened it, the more impossible it was to turn. Finally, I got the bright idea to thread another nut on the end of the bolt and run it down as far as I could. That did the trick. Just needed to break up some rust.
Then, I got sidetracked for another hour when I saw how rusted my hitch was. I broke out the needle scaler and went to town. It's kind of addicting, but I'm sure my neighbor didn't care for the awful noise it makes.
Finally I got the bumper off and drilled out the last three spot welds, then cleaned up all the old spot welds and scraped off the caulk.
Truck quarter panel/inner panel replacement
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One last thing, I used a 7' level and a tape measure to get the positioning of the area below the tail light just right. I positioned the level horizontally just below the tail lights, then measured from the rear bed rail to the level. The driver's side was 2.5". The passenger side was 2.75". So, I had to push the lower rear part of the quarter panel about 1/4" toward the front and clamp it to get it the same.
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