[Healeys] Bodywork Advise on "Oil Canning"

[Greg Lemon]

I too attended a body shop class last year, and agree with Rich and Patrick, 
don't cover up with filler, body stress or something its it and it pops back 
out.

Not sure if I would recommend this but just passing it on, the shop class I 
took was aimed more at production repair work of modern crunched vehicles 
and not high quality restorations.  Anyway, the instructor and a subsequennt 
body man I have worked with and made freind with liked to use the pick or 
pointy end of the body shop hammer on such areas, dimpling the bejeezus out 
of, or I guess into the surface and in effect pulling out the slack.  Like 
Patrick I took the class with a bunch of classic car do it yourself types, 
we were pretty much aghast at that whole idea of dimpling up smooth sheet 
metal and covering it withh filler, but it is apparently not unncommon in 
the industry.

That being said I would recommend doing it the right way with heat and 
shrinking tools, I don't have the skills to do that (don't think, haven' 
really tried) and when I had the same problem on my TR250 door took it to a 
shop to have that particular problem fixerd, although I am doing most all of 
the rest of the bodywork myself, .didn't cost too much either.

Greg Lemon