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Re: Shouldn't a patch panel be better than this?
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That was the name of the game in the early 50's thru the 70's. Heck I like driving a hunk of rusted metal around town. |
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Location: Catskill Mountains,NY
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Re: Shouldn't a patch panel be better than this?
Assembly line rejects ? You do realise by the time a part made it to the line it was painted body color except the cab which was assembled and painted . Anything not welded came to the vehicle painted and assembled
Even if a part made it to the vehicle and it didnt fit it was scraped ,to be stripped and primed it to use as a replacement part wouldn't be feasible cost wise.
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#28 |
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Location: louisville, ky
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Re: Shouldn't a patch panel be better than this?
Gonna try to make it work. Any suggestions? You can see I had to move the panel up to make it more or less match the lower body line on the door. The door needs to be at that height. So I can't move it up more to make it line up with the top part of the mismatched area above the wheel well. Right now the only idea I have is to split it and widen it to match, fill in that area. The curved area above won't match up right, so I just kind of hammer and dolly it as best I can and then use filler. That's all I got.
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Location: TX
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Re: Shouldn't a patch panel be better than this?
zac, can't tell how much of the yellow panel is missing underneath. My recommendation is not to use so much of the patch panel. Is that the whole patch panel shown? have you already cut out the fender?
Try to only use what is really needed. If you have already cut away the panel behind, I would just split that edge along the upper crease and bend it out where it looks better and trim off the top of the patch to match the cut you made on the yellow fender. That area above the fender lip is one of the hardest areas on the truck to block sand and make perfect. Not sure how perfect you are going for. |
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