I have to do a patch panel huh?
I've had this car 10 years. A couple years ago I prepped it and took it down to get painted. After a few months I noticed bubbling on the rear quarter. At first it was real minimal so I thought it was the paint reacting. I took it back to the paint shop and they told me it was rust so they reprepped it and blended the paint. After a while the bubbles formed again and the shop was out of business. I got lazy and didn't mess with it until today and now I have a bunch of pin holes. So now I have some questions.
How do you guys think the moisture got in there? Could it be from the body plug behind the quarter? I never had a problem with it for years with my old paint job and as soon as I got it painted this all started. I'm kind of confused on how it could happen again after they fixed it. It doesn't snow here, I'm not near the ocean, there's almost no humidity and there's never been leaves or any debris caught up back there.
Anyway it looks like I'm going to have to do a patch panel, something that scares the **** out of me. I have a welder and gas but I really need to practice because I've never welded anything this thin. How do I go about doing this? The inner quarter panel looks ok to me. Do I just cut the outer quarter off, clean the inner quarter and then weld a patch on? Do the patches come with both inner and outer metal? Also should I patch all the way to the rear or cut a line vertical in the middle and just weld half the lower quarter on?
I've had this car 10 years. A couple years ago I prepped it and took it down to get painted. After a few months I noticed bubbling on the rear quarter. At first it was real minimal so I thought it was the paint reacting. I took it back to the paint shop and they told me it was rust so they reprepped it and blended the paint. After a while the bubbles formed again and the shop was out of business. I got lazy and didn't mess with it until today and now I have a bunch of pin holes. So now I have some questions.
How do you guys think the moisture got in there? Could it be from the body plug behind the quarter? I never had a problem with it for years with my old paint job and as soon as I got it painted this all started. I'm kind of confused on how it could happen again after they fixed it. It doesn't snow here, I'm not near the ocean, there's almost no humidity and there's never been leaves or any debris caught up back there.
Anyway it looks like I'm going to have to do a patch panel, something that scares the **** out of me. I have a welder and gas but I really need to practice because I've never welded anything this thin. How do I go about doing this? The inner quarter panel looks ok to me. Do I just cut the outer quarter off, clean the inner quarter and then weld a patch on? Do the patches come with both inner and outer metal? Also should I patch all the way to the rear or cut a line vertical in the middle and just weld half the lower quarter on?
