1963 Dodge Dart 270 Convertible for the Wife
Almost ordered $400 more worth of quarter patches, glad I did not....
Cut out all the rust and made it larger enough to patch the inner fender tub at the rear bottom. Then I drilled out all the spot welds and folded the lip out enough that I can get a sand blaster in there to blast it out and brush in epoxy primer. This was a really bad design for rust, the gap between the inner and out fender was less than 1/4" and flat ready to trap mud and crud in that area. It is not that bad but making these folds will mess up the outer lip somewhat (buckle it so there will need some filler work around the wheel wells now but at least I know there is no any rust ready to poke through).
Of course is it always just a little worse than you though after the cutting begins... The scribe line is where the patch reaches up from the bottom. Will need to make a small patch above it with some of the left over material.
New patch will be cut to only replace what was rusted.
So no one makes a early A-Body trunk extension so I used a Duster extension as the clay and made it work.
I pulled out the welder and a summer thunder storm started. Put everything away and lost my energy.
Almost ordered $400 more worth of quarter patches, glad I did not....
Cut out all the rust and made it larger enough to patch the inner fender tub at the rear bottom. Then I drilled out all the spot welds and folded the lip out enough that I can get a sand blaster in there to blast it out and brush in epoxy primer. This was a really bad design for rust, the gap between the inner and out fender was less than 1/4" and flat ready to trap mud and crud in that area. It is not that bad but making these folds will mess up the outer lip somewhat (buckle it so there will need some filler work around the wheel wells now but at least I know there is no any rust ready to poke through).
Of course is it always just a little worse than you though after the cutting begins... The scribe line is where the patch reaches up from the bottom. Will need to make a small patch above it with some of the left over material.
New patch will be cut to only replace what was rusted.
So no one makes a early A-Body trunk extension so I used a Duster extension as the clay and made it work.
I pulled out the welder and a summer thunder storm started. Put everything away and lost my energy.