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papastrk · 03-20-2014, 08:22 AM

It would help a lot if you can repair the door panel from a little below the body line up into the curved portion. This would make the repair patch much simpler to make. Just a thought. If you can't save this part, I'm sure you can make a small repair patch for this area too. You are going to have a much larger butt joint area to weld than you have been doing so far, so be prepared to hammer and dolly and grind spot welds as you go. Otherwise the door skin will try to turn itself wrong side out. Too much body filler on a door skin can't be good. Keep us posted.

03-20-2014, 08:22 AM	#142
papastrk Registered User Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: Southern Oklahoma Posts: 181	Re: 55.2 Chevy 3100 It would help a lot if you can repair the door panel from a little below the body line up into the curved portion. This would make the repair patch much simpler to make. Just a thought. If you can't save this part, I'm sure you can make a small repair patch for this area too. You are going to have a much larger butt joint area to weld than you have been doing so far, so be prepared to hammer and dolly and grind spot welds as you go. Otherwise the door skin will try to turn itself wrong side out. Too much body filler on a door skin can't be good. Keep us posted.