Cracking on with more body shaping and epoxy primer, this time it’s the sliding door.
Bare metalled:
In hindsight it would have been easier to fit the larger repair panel as under the paint was probably nearly 1/2″ of filler about 2 inches above where I’d put the repair. It’s difficult to see here but there were three large dents in the door:
I can’t really apply filler over this:
So I spent an evening with a hammer and dolly trying to even out the panel. I’m no panel beater but I managed to get it into a much better shape. It’ll still need filler but hopefully nowhere near as much:
Door all shaped up. I still need to resist the temptation to think the high spots won’t show through the paint as having painted the door it needs more refinement (but isn’t far off):
And all epoxy primed:
It’s not far off. I’ve put fine filler over the rough areas and have blocked it back and it’s looking closer (no picture yet). I’ll give it another coat of epoxy when I do the front arches and B pillars.
In between waiting for filler to set I’ve been repairing the rear tin for the engine. The inner part of mine was damaged on the left around the pre-heat pipe mount, which would be tricky to repair. The front part has one hole that needs repairing. Lucky for me Wayne was chucking his old tin as it had rusted out along the edge of the outer part, but the inner part was fine (mine is the bottom one in this pic):
So I repaired the hole in the outer part of mine, and drilled out the spot welds on both tins to separate the inner and outer parts. I could then use the good inner section from Wayne’s, and the original outer section of mine to make one decent tin:
Pinned together:
And all welded up. It’s saved me forking out £150 for a repro tin too!
