My understanding is that fitting the door skin is not all that simple.
Anyone?
John Walker had this to say:
>If you can do the welding yourself I can see how this would be a good way
>to go.
>But it seems with the amount of work that is required here it would be just
>as easy to
>just buy the $50.00 door skin and have it mounted. Am I mistaken?
>
>-JW
>
>
>At 09:50 PM 9/20/99 -0600, Larry Hoy wrote:
>>Bobby I had the same experience with the crack of doom. I explained to the
>>body shop how I wanted it repaired. I guess he figured that he had a better
>>way ... he didn't. Mine waited about 1 year to re-appear.
>>
>>I fixed it the second time and it worked well. First you have to thoroughly
>>clean the area to bare steel. Then determine where the crack ends. You
>>drill a 1/8" hole at the end of the crack. Then at about 1/2" spacing drill
>>holes along each side of the crack. The next step is to form a piece of
>>sheet metal to fit on the inside of the door, this just needs to be big
>>enough to cover the crack and the newly drilled holes. Then you weld the
>>sheet metal to the door, through the holes. At this point you just finish
>>the surface and paint.
>>
>>Good luck.
>>
>>Larry Hoy
>>
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