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Continued work on the rear tail light section the next day after work. I did some ready up on the use of the stud gun and the quality of stud pins makes a difference. I ordered up a box from Amazon the night before which showed up the next day before I started to work on light again and those studs worked great. the first box came with the gun which I bought from Harbor Freight. Here a few pictures of the next steps.

At one point I laid a straight edge on the edge of the tail light housing and noticed that it was not straight so I laid a few spot welds in the area that was low and then proceeded with filing the spot welds down until it was lined up on the straight edge. Also had to lay a few spot welds in the corners where the metal had ripped.

Getting close but still a bunch more work to get done before it is ready for filler. One the areas I will need to address on the side is a little bit of oil canning going on the side where the metal has been stretched. I will attempt to shrink it back in with some heat and cooling process. I did this on another area on the bed and it actually worked out great.