Sheet metal repair of door. w/PICS

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PostPosted: Sun Jun 29, 2014 1:58 pm
Well my car is an 85 Buick regal T-type, I removed the door and tapped it off where I plan to cut, now I've never done this before, I plan to use a cut off wheel on my angle grinder. Any tips?

Front Corner

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Underneath of front corner

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Tapped off where I plan to cut, the cut is so big because i figured I might as well cut out all the dings too?

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Rear corner

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In the last picture you see it rusted through the door skin and also through the door frame.

Tips please



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PostPosted: Tue Jul 01, 2014 9:07 am
Bump any suggestions?

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PostPosted: Tue Jul 01, 2014 9:41 am
Suggestions:

1. reskin the door
2. look for a cleaner door from a salvage yard
3. continue the way you are going, but you have a lot of rust there to cut out and repair

when the body of the door is that far gone I usually give up...there will be rust coming through the bottom that you will find as you go along.

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