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Originally Posted by Caddylackn
What are your skills? Can you weld?
What are your goals? Does this fix have to be perfect? Is this a show truck or a driver?
What is the final color?
If you require this fix to be invisible, and the final color would be very dark and shiny, I feel that this upper section would have to be cut off and replaced with original sheet metal.
If it doesn't have to be perfect, I think you could get it close by pulling it and hammer massaging it back into shape, then bondo the imperfections. It would be hard to get this area bondo'ed and sanded and look perfect since there are many compound curves. If the truck was white, light green, silver, or yellow this repair would be hard to pick up. If it was black, or dark colors any slightly flat spot in the rounded edge would be visible.
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It will be a shade of blue, I'm not 100% certain but unlikely to be a dark blue. I don't it to be visible there was a repair at all. I'm going to drive it but its going to be pretty nice I hope. I haven't decided if I'm going to paint it or not. Its going to come down to if I can find someone I can trust that I can afford.
Ive replaced the entire bottom of two cabs but rust patch panel replacement is a little bit less intricate than damage/collision repair in my experience. Ive used a shrinking disk and hammer/dolly to do a few things but I dont want to cause myself more of a headache.
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Originally Posted by Grumpy old man
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Since I cant really get to the backside id have to make something maybe like getter done linked or that tool grumpy mentioned, which looks awesome. That looks a lot easier to control for a novice. I actually have that harbor freight kit with the gun and slide hammer. Amazon reviews show a lot of the Steck stud levers are actually breaking though. Grumpy I assume you've got one of these? Reading some of the reviews looks concerning