The trunk lid is now at the dull and boring stage. Removing all the rust is slow boring work. This would be where a sand blaster would be really good. I probably will need about a dozen rotary wheel wire brushes to complete the job. I pretty much destroyed the only wire brush I had left. This is about 3 hours of DA sanding followed by about 30 minutes of wire brush work. These surfaces will need to be treated with Naval Jelly to get rid of all the rust in the pits. It is still best to spend time with a wire wheel brush and remove as much rust as possible before using Naval Jelly. This will probably take four treatments of Naval Jelly, with each treatment taking a day.
With the skin removed, 10 minutes of hammer and dolly work got the metal almost back in shape. The lock cylinder is now where it should be and not pushed in at the bottom. I will spend more time later getting it better after I finished with the rust removal. I just wanted to see it I thought it could be repaired. At this point it looks more like rust repair rather than collision work since I will cut out most of the damaged metal when making the patch panel
The entire bottom edge with require a patch. I plan to make the cut just under the lock cylinder. As you can see here the bottom is pretty bad.
This is the patch I will need the make.
