Hi all.
I need some help with a high spot on my rear quarter.

The panel should have one curve and should look like an upside down J but 2 quarters down the panel has a high area that is quite wide and about 2 inches high. Above the high area the top curve seems to be pushed in slightly.

I need to knock the high down and the top curve out but I am not sure how to do that.

I hope that my picture explains the situation. The black is what it should look like. Green is what it sort of is like now.

Thanks in advance.

Here is an excellent thread on working metal:
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=18781

Thank you for pointing me to that article. Very cool. I will have to print that out at work.

So.. what I am reading is that perhaps I push the top low area out with a dolly whilst tapping the high area down with a rubber mallet.

Does that sound about right?

For the problem in your drawing, yes you are correct, except not a rubber mallet. Use a steel body hammer. Just don't tap the dolly with the hammer, that will stretch the metal, and your drawing does not require stretching.

Most times you are better off with a slapper and not a body hammer.

A picture is worth a thousand words

I ended up using a rubber mallet which seemed to do the trick.
The panel was stretched really bad so I have spent the last few days (an hour here and there) shrinking it and getting it back in shape.
It is coming along. Tomorrow I will use a slap stick and try and get the panel smooth. There are still some areas with the tin can affect but the shrinking is resolving that issue.

The other night I was about to cut a square out of the metal as I wasn't getting anywhere. My knowledge of shrinking was flawed and was getting me into all sorts of bother.

I ended up finding these pages from a book which helped me greatly.

https://books.google.com.au/books?id=d6 ... ea&f=false

Its really hard to tell by a drawing and even a picture sometimes, but in that drawing, it doesn't look like any stretching took place. So its possible that your shrinking, you may have caused some problems by displacing metal.

The book link wasn't working.

Ok. I think that I have moved on from here. The panel is now in shape.
Between the mallet, the shrinking and pounding it is where I want it to be.

I have another question but I will start a new thread.