Thought I'd Post some pictures of some body work me and my dad did, for anyone interested!
The rust was a little worse then we thought, so we had to cut out more then we wanted, but it didn't turn out to bad.
The key is to save as much metal as you can! But also cut out as much rust as you can!
Spray what you can with weld through primer before you start welding pieces in. Because it'll be harder to get paint in there later.
Found some 20 gauge steel and snipped out a piece to match best we could, and welded it in!
You have to be careful welding on a big panel like that, to much heat, and it will likely try to warp it.
Take you time and put as man tacks as you can, kind of moving from side to side, between welds to keep from building to much heat.
Next we took stuff that we call tiger hair and laid it on with a spreader. Id recommend wearing gloves.
Blocked it down with 40 and 80 grit sand paper.
After a second coat of tiger hair, and making sure there was no pinholes, we covered it with body filler. You don't want any pin holes or else water will get to the body filler, and bubble it. Fiber glass wont be affected by water.
We block sanded the body filler with 120 and 220 grit, then DA'ed it with 220
Primed it, and sanded out any more imperfections with 320 and 400 grit sand paper.
Next painted it. Make sure you scuff anywhere paint and clear coat will touch, or else it wont bond well. We put 3 coats on, First coat where the primer was, next coat was over the first coat and out another 4-5 in. 3rd coat was over 1st -2nd coat and out another 5-6 in to help fade with original paint.
Then cleared it.
All done!
Thanks for reading =)
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