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Old 09-06-2017, 02:25 PM   #1280
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Re: Rat repair.

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Originally Posted by Vic1947 View Post
If you decide to replace the inner panel, easy will go out the window. They don't fit very well, IMO. Yours is not too terribly bad and could be salvaged with GEM, epoxy and self etch primer. When I did mine, the inner panels I bought were wrinkled and fit poorly. I think you'll more than double your work if you replace them. The key to using what you have is to seal out any future moisture to prevent corrosion. As you can see, the rot already has a head start, so if moisture is allowed to creep back in, it will come back very fast.
Yea, I'm just looking at the flanges themselves and not the whole inner section, my main concern is the thinning of the metal and being able to spot weld the skin to it after folding the skin over, the triangle piece is bad and thin enough that like the other door I think it would be pretty difficult to weld in a small patch. I will say that of all this rust repair I think I hate the doors the most. LOL!
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