Will stud gun and slide hammer pull this out? Please help

[Cow.kllr]

72 c10. Trying to pull this long dent out in the body line. It is kind of creased in there too. Wondering if anyone has pulled something like this out. Is a stud gun and slide hammer the best way to go about it?

[landarts]

It might be possible, kind of hard to tell from the pictures. Looks like it is bowed in. If that is the case you might have luck with putting a long straight piece of hard wood behind it and try to move it hydraulically with a bottle jack or ram behind the wood. I have been able to pull out the same sort of bow in on tailgates with success like that. Make sure the board is longer then the effected area to help move the metal and I would also round of ends so it does not cause a crease. Always try to shape the wood piece to match the desired shape.

[Cow.kllr]

I wont be able to get a bottle jack in there but I can prolly get a porta power in there and do the same thing you are talking about.

[landarts]

Yes that will work. They also sell air bag ones at home depot that might work. But if you can get a porta power behind there than that should work. Little at a time is the way to go.

[Cow.kllr]

Cool.thanks

[sick472]

The trick to pushing that out with your porta-power is to NOT push the inner wall in. It looks like your bedside is off the truck (maybe that's another truck in the background...IDK). Your inner wall will push in as much as the outer panel will push out, maybe more. If it's off the truck...really brace up the inner panel with some heavy angle iron or wooden 4x4. If your bed bottom is still assembled to your bedside, then it's less of a worry. Just be aware of what your pushin' against.

[Cow.kllr]

The cab is up on a table. It isn't going on the original frame. The door is hanging on the cab. I was gonna pull door off and strap it down to my welding table and push against it.

[sick472]

My mistake, I thought that was the bed not the door...I see it now. That's a different animal and it sounds like you got it under control!

[HO455]

I thought I was a bedside too.
A slide hammer will help with this repair. Just remember you will need to shrink the metal in the crease that has been stretched. Just pulling it out will cause the rest of the panel to bow out.
Recommend watching a bunch of videos on metal shrinking dent repairs.

[Cow.kllr]

Sorry. I guess I didn't specify what it was. This is the passenger side door. I've been watching a bunch of videos lately. I tried some shrinking stuff on other spots.

[StingRay]

Possibly but you will probably need a row of pins and a fixture that grabs a bunch of them at the same time pulling the larger area. I'd yank it with something like a portapower and a pulling ram. You will want to tap along the area being pulled with a hammer to relieve stress allowing the area to move. There are other types of pulling tabs and wiggle wire that might be better.

You could tack on small sheet metal tabs with a hole in them. Lay the door down on the floor and then pull up on the tab with a rope attached to a hook above you. Just support the weight of the door. Tap the area around the tab you are pulling to relieve stress and observe to see if the door is dropping down leaving the worked area higher. Move along the area in need of repair. Pretty hokey but simple and something I would try if I didn't have a stud welder which I do.

[hugger6933]

Take a scrap piece of sheet metal and spot to the dent the whole length of it. Clamp a mo- clamp on the piece of metal then hook it to a come along and pull. you don't have a mo-clamp? I doubt you do well make the piece of scrap big enough to put a hole in and a big washer on each side of the hole then use that to pull from. Also there are other things that go with the pull pins that are awesome. There is a tool made by body tool maker STECK, it is called a stud lever. If you do have a stud gun get the stud lever they are about $35 bucks and worth every penny. Also I have another tool for studs calla shoot suite[I don't know why] but it looks like a rivet gun with a basket on it. You put the tool on the stud and squeeze the handle the gun will pull upwards on the stud. The basket around the tool helps you from pulling too far. I love my Magna stud gun and the tools that go along with it those extra tools I told you about are an awesome addition to a already super useful tool. Jim

[Getter-Done]

Wray Schelin offers shrinking discs.

Here is a link to the 5"

Link: https://www.proshaper.com/product/5%...hrinking-disc/

If you have searched it on the Net .
I bet you have seen his video's

link to Wray's video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGuc06GMwG4








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[lil hoodlum]

I would check for any high spots or "crowns" in the metal first. There likely is one somewhere above the dent. If you find one or more high spots, tap those back down. The metal may go back down to the contour, then you would be left with the dent to contend with.