In my last post I mentioned that my wagon has been hit in the rear left hand
corner. Somebody apparently backed into something, Should be a pretty
straightforward repair.
First the bumper came off. Not an easy task, as some nutcase had welded the
bumper brackets to the frame!
Anyway, this is what it looks like to start with:
The outer part of the rear should follow the same line as the tail gate, so it's almost in inch too far in.
I have borrowed a slide hammer with a claw that grips thin sheet metal. Just
spot weld in a piece of scrap cheet metal, and start hammering (pulling) away.
Well, first the paint has to come off.
Oh shoot!
Not something I had expected. The fender bender was actually
repaired to
this state!
My flabber was trulyly gasted.
I heated the parts with lots of lead on, and let it run to the floor. I did a few
releif cuts where the sheet metal was badly wrinkled and started pulling from
different pieces that i had spot welded to the car.
Looks much better already, but the outer corner is still a bit too far to the
right, and nothing happens when I pull to the side. I called it a day, and will
continue on tuesday night.
