First of the Texas Twins, First Build Options

[Puebloswatcop]

Finished one door until wet sanding time. I sealed all of the seams for the Door Seal channel.

[Puebloswatcop]

Then I decided I needed a bit of a change of pace, but still get more body work done.
I turned to a rear bumper I recently purchased from another member here. It had a crease under where the bumper tit goes on the passenger side. It is completely covered by the tit, but I wanted to try and get as much of the crease out as I could.

[Puebloswatcop]

I started by trying to hammer the raised portion of the crease down, using a hard rubber mallet. the support on the back of the bumper covers over where the crease is, so there is no way to access it for a dolly on the back side compounding the difficulty of trying to flatten it out. After about an hour, it was about 50% gone though.

[Puebloswatcop]

I keot working on it for about another 2 hours not only working the crease, but trying to re-shape the low spots on each side of the crease caused a lot by beating the crease out without the ability to back it with a dolly. I got most of the low areas out using heat and ice to shrink the metal a bit. I also used a piece of 1 X 2 wood to help raise it as best I could from the back side. Still not finished, but well on its way. The black arrows show where the crease begins and ends. The red arrow is where there is a sharp raised tiny bump that won't hammer out with the hard rubber mallet. I hade to use a metal hammer on the chrome, but it may come down to that.