AtracYota91
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Shaggz00":3bfn7pst said:Yeah, my donor car was at a junkyard, so it was half in the mud. I just took a sawzall to it, and got a section of inner fender and a section of outer skin. I'm a welder by profession, and I do it all, but for some reason automotive sheet metal intimidates me, haha.
Truthfully I really need a whole left quarter, because the back corner has been repaired before (and not well I might add). best thing for me would be to buy a cheap donor car, bring it home, do the sheet metal swap, and junk the rest of the car. I just don't have the time to dedicate at a junkyard removing a whole quarter.
Did you buy one of those special spot weld drill bits?
Trust me once you start taking it apart by drilling spot welds it's easy. It's pretty hard to mess up when all your doing is lining up spot welds by counting them. Make sure you have way more than enoff to work with on you donor piece. As for the out side goes. Cut a nice enven peice of your quarter and do the same with your good quarter. Only making the good peice an inch or so over just to be safe. That's what I plan on doing with mine. Then my plan is to line it up perfectly an run tape along the top of my good peice onto the bad section. Then I will just cut the tape with a razor riding the razor along the top of the good piece. I will then remove the good piece and cut along the bottom the tape on the bad section with a angle grinder. But before I cut the whole thing I'm going to line up the quarters again to be on the safe side. I'm only doing that so I can make sure I have a small enoff gap for my welds. Once you start taking sections apart and cutting out your old stuff u will relize it's simple. I'm 25 run crane at a steel mill haha and I'm doing ok I think? You should have way more than enoff skills since your a welder to pull off that body work. I've never done body work in my life untill about a week ago. I helped do my driver side but the passenger side was all me. But anyway your best bet is to get a whole parts car. I got a whole st for $200 got what I needed scraped it and made my money back. Them drill bits I got at a local welding and paint store. There nothing really special it's basically a 3/8s" hole saw with a sharp point on a spring so it stays centered. They are so nice. I used a punch and hit dead center of the spot welds before I use that bit. Once that bit jumps off the area you are drilling it snaps fairly easy. So yeah use a punch. They stay sharp so I'm sure that's cause they are high carbon steel that's y they break easy. Can't get the best of both worlds I guess.