body work question rear valence, can I fix this? Progress with boring pics Options

[theleschyouknow]

I've had my car for about two years first year -what I call the year of living dangerously
I drove it whenever the weather allowed including a 914 weekend in the talimena hills
after a brokenclutch cable clevis it's been wheels in the air for close to a year I've been cleaning the engine and trans and suspension arms and cv's/axles and shocks & springs and engine tin I can reach of 40+ years of grease and dirt -a bunch of it likely from the leaking cv's which I'm sure I'll ask about soon in another thread
so here's my question for this thread:
my rear valence has one 'big' dent in it and couple small wrinkles in the bottom 1/4" or so 'return' flange that defines the bottom edge
pics following

having never done any kind of body work before this seems fairly straight forward to repair
what are the minimal tools required?
what kind of results could reasonably be expected?
could I (easily)screw it up beyond repair?

thanks for any comments or suggestions





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cjl

[zambezi]

Are you using a hammer and dolley or just the hammer and sand bag? For dents like these I don't use sand bags, but strictly hammer and dolley and have good results.

[theleschyouknow]

Are you using a hammer and dolley or just the hammer and sand bag? For dents like these I don't use sand bags, but strictly hammer and dolley and have good results.

I've been using both so far
I started using hammer & dolly on the small wrinkles in the bottom flange based on the first in last out principle I figured those wrinkles were incident to the major dent and that went pretty well
then I moved on to the big main dent but wasn't having much luck really moving any metal with dolly and body hammer so I moved on to sand bag a BFH to get the main dent pushed back out and then worked it a little with body hammer and bag and dollies

I will quit with the sandbag
I've watched a handful of u tube vids and think I get the general idea and off dolly hammering in concept but I guess not in practice

so I need to push out on the low side from behind with the dolly and hammer on the outside or just the opposite put the dolly on the outside and hammer it from behind

thanks for the advice

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