Rear shelve had some rot in the usual spots. this was in epoxy primer
Some rust showing under the w/o moldings on qtrs
Doesn't look bad but we kept chasing it
At this point decided car needed to go back to town.
I don't have a lift at home and I wanted to try my hand at the resistance spot welder I have at my body shop.
We ordered outer qtr skins and wheel houses.
Our a/m supplier sells us the parts at wholesale and no shipping. We figured if the panels where nice we would use the entire panel.
Well as you might have guessed, we opted to use just a few inches around the arch on each side. We used the entire wheel house on the l side but the r side was such a bad fit we ended up welding the old wheelhouse back in after we repaired the bad areas on it.
We also tried to stay away from the factory seams if possible
This shows L wheel arch in place and we where ready to install the outer
This is of the r side before we removed and repaired the wheel house
This is how much of the after market sheet metal we ended up using on the r side.
Left side we didn't even need the section behind the wheel
Rear shelve we did the same staying away from the seams. We got a good look at it from under side and only replaced the area needed saving as much of the orginial metal as possible
