Help/advice for replacing body panels, front wall |
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Help/advice for replacing body panels, front wall |
sixaddict |
Dec 24 2011, 10:39 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 804 Joined: 22-January 09 From: Panama City Beach, FL Member No.: 9,961 Region Association: South East States |
Had crazy incident occur while buying rust free car. Replacing front wall and one headlight bucket as result(its a story for "another " time) with NOS parts.....yes Porsche porn.
So I will be removing front wall and drivers side headlight bucket by drilling out spot welds to prepare the scene Got really special drill bit that will endure all the drilling....but surely there are some tricks to finding all the factory spot welds and dealing with removing seam sealer. Anyone with experience in this area could be of great help as I am sure patience with knowledge will really make this a much easier project......HAve body guy to do reinstall so it is not "hacked" . Any words of wisdom from the World? Thanks and Merry Christmas (IMG:style_emoticons/default/pray.gif) Terry P.S. Had to switch to laptop from Ipad to get this posted...per other post |
914werke |
Dec 24 2011, 01:58 PM
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"I got blisters on me fingers" Group: Members Posts: 10,116 Joined: 22-March 03 From: USofA Member No.: 453 Region Association: Pacific Northwest |
its not that tough, once all the seam sealer is removed from the areas in question hit the weld points with a sander, the spot welds tend to be low points and show up easily.
Center punch each then drill till you break the top steel. If youve done an effective job on the spots an air chisel does short work removing the bad section, but go lightly as there usually is a place or two (or three) that you haven't cut thoroughly and you can tear the underlying steel. |
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