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hgs_notes · 03-18-2010, 09:48 PM

Cleaned up the bracing with a wire wheel and got a can of SEM weld through primer. That is some expensive stuff, $14 a can. I'll need it though for when the spot welds areas are re-welded.

Then I started to cut the replacement panel to fit. Here's a tip, if you don't need to replace the whole bottom for speaker holes, don't do it. The bends on the repo panel are not the same as the original doors. Not even close. I don't have the tools or experience to try and make a match, so I just used what I had to do the best I could.

03-18-2010, 09:48 PM	#23
hgs_notes GEARHEAD Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: MN Posts: 6,119	Re: Over 25 Years Later, Finally My 71 C-10 Truck Build Cleaned up the bracing with a wire wheel and got a can of SEM weld through primer. That is some expensive stuff, $14 a can. I'll need it though for when the spot welds areas are re-welded. Then I started to cut the replacement panel to fit. Here's a tip, if you don't need to replace the whole bottom for speaker holes, don't do it. The bends on the repo panel are not the same as the original doors. Not even close. I don't have the tools or experience to try and make a match, so I just used what I had to do the best I could. __________________ If no one knows what you're doing, they can't tell you you're doing it wrong HG's Dream Car Build - Shelby Cobra Kit Build your own adjustable track bar 71 Long Fleet C/10 72 Jimmy 4x4 (Junkyard Jimmy) HG's Plow Truck '78 K35 Dually Bigass Farm Truck HG's thread of miscellaneous stuff