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[QUOTE=C) If i had the budget I would just buy new doors. Ive got untold hours in just one and its still just "ok". Every truck Ive owned has always had a ding in the body line on the door and ive never been able to get that perfect.[/QUOTE]
Depending on the type of body line your talking about, and your access. A body line with a peak, that has dings, or has been flattened. My favorite tool, is a dolly made from a 3" wide masons chisel. You need to profile and polish it. Round the edge over, and lay the outer corners back. So they don't dig in. That with a fairly heavy metal slapper/spoon. And a decently stout hammer. Not a body hammer. You can hammer the peak back where you want it. And profile the outer contour with the slapper. Last edited by Grounded63; 12-29-2023 at 05:22 PM. |
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If the rest of the skin is in good shape. And, you don't need to replace any of the bottom structure. I would cut out a section of the inner structure, under the door panel to gain access. Pretty much minimal weld clean up, is needed that way. If the dings are somewhat minor. You can try wedging ( with tension ) a dolly between the inner structure and outer skin. Then hammer or slap/spoon to raise them.
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Somebody flattened that out good . . . But, I'd rather straighten that, than something that looks like a bag of Walnuts : )
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Good job getting busy saving that one - it was about to become part of the landscape.
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Great work so far! Good to see you on another project.
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Nice work! Enjoying following along. I appreciate folks that have the patience for this level of metal work.
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Will you keep the bucket seats? They aren’t stock or are they? I love how you painted the frame, tractor tipping onto its side very ingenious
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I need a firewall and a roof skin before I can really do much more body work and neither of those are in the budget right now so I changed gears and started working on the suspension. Replaced all the ball joints,tie rod ends and sleeves, wheel seals, lower control arm shaft seals and front springs. I had one rusted spring and got lucky and found a pair of moog springs on closeout at rockauto for $60. Almost half price. Then I turned to the rear and my luck has ran out. I think my trailing arms are saveable but the rest of the axle is junk. I have taken a lot of diff covers off and have never seen anything like that. I dont even know how that happens. The pinion shoved too far back when it was setup?
Also the axle tubes are almost rusted completely through where the ubolts were. Im picking up a different axle tomorrow although its out of a 63, so Ill have to figure out something for the panhard bar. Ive read a lot of posts about the differences but so far they have all been someone putting a newer rear end in an older truck, not the other way around like I am doing. |
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Geez, I didn't know that was even possible to do to a carrier. I bet that made a heck of a racket while it was chewing that up.
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