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Door Strap Fix by Vent Window.
Has anyone had any success fixing (welding of otherwise) the door strap by the vent window without ruining the paint? Please share techniques and what worked and didn't work. Thanks.
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Re: Door Strap Fix by Vent Window.
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No matter how you do it you will have to remove the wing vent window. I posted some pictures in this thread. http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=633866 LockDoc
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Re: Door Strap Fix by Vent Window.
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Here are a couple of pictures. Please excuse the horrible quality. The camera didn't want to focus in on the right places and the flash was a bit bright. The arrow in the first picture points to the crack on the inside panel of the door. You can see how close it gets to the top edge of the door. |
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Re: Door Strap Fix by Vent Window.
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Looks to me like that would be hard to weld without burning the paint.... It won't take a lot of heat.. You can lay rags soaked in ice water on the paint outside, which would help. You might get by with it if you used small spots and cooled it down between each one. It would be a crap shoot at best. LockDoc
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Re: Door Strap Fix by Vent Window.
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I wouldn't really want to guess on that, because that's what it would be. It probably depends on how much you would open and close the door and how hard it is to close.... LockDoc
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Re: Door Strap Fix by Vent Window.
Thanks for your comments LockDock, I appreciate it. Looks like at this point, it is very likely that I'll have to have at least part of the inside of the door repainted. Definitely not what I want to have done, but probably better to do it now then when the truck is all back together. I'm sure the door will close pretty hard when I first get it back together. It will have all new seals and based on most of the posts I've read, it takes them a while to get set in.
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would J-B weld/belzona do the trick? I think if you could dress the areas with a dremel tool and use some J-B weld/belzona, it would make a pretty sound repair.
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Re: Door Strap Fix by Vent Window.
Personally, I've never had much luck with JB weld for something like this. There would be a lot of outward stress on it. However, I wonder if panel adhesive would be strong enough to hold. LocDoc, or others... Do you think that if I bent a piece of metal in the same shape as the strap so that it fit tightly underneath the strap. Then used panel adhesive and clamped the new strap to the old one. Would that hold up? I know that GM uses panel adhesive in place of welds in some of their vehicles. I believe the bed of my 2001 Sierra is held together by panel adhesive. Not sure how it would work in this situation though.
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Never thought about panel adhesive, using that and maybe a large pop rivet would work, and the pop rivet would lay flush on that tab.
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Re: Door Strap Fix by Vent Window.
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That would be worth a try that stuff is awesome.... It would have to be really clean though. LockDoc
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