About to send the car for paint and I want to weld the cowl seam and side marker light holes up. What's the best way to go about doing this?

Thanks

Welding shut the cowl seam is a bad idea, at least that is what the brain trust seems to think. I left mine.

Welding up marker lights. I cheated when I did mine. I cut a patch slightly larger then the hole, cleaned off all the paint and tar behind the fender, and lap-welded the hole shut. A little bit of body filler, and you'd never know they were there.

I used this technique to close all the holes in the fender when I pulled out the AC.

You can carefully cut a patch and butt weld them in, and then grind the weld flat - but I don't weld that well, and wanted them done.

Zach

my attempt....

My preference was to cut out a circle and butt-weld into place.... This is before welding....

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-- Rob

Tooo much work....

Do as I and the first chimmers stated, unless you care what the inside of the fender looks like.

Duh,
take it to McMark!

Leave the cowl alone, to much stress there in time the weld will break..

Thanks for the info everybody.