Great thread. Much more clear than a couple others I have seen.
After you hammered down the pinch weld you said to clean it up before painting. What did you use to do that? What kind of paint did you use?
Great thread. Much more clear than a couple others I have seen.
After you hammered down the pinch weld you said to clean it up before painting. What did you use to do that? What kind of paint did you use?
To clean it up I just used a 3M surface prep disc for my air tool.... any sand paper will do. Basically you want to clean off any cracked paint since those are areas that will still peel away after you repaint. You don't have to bring it down to the bare metal everywhere, you just need smooth transitions so the paint holds.
For paint i just used rustoleum rust preventing primer primer.
I copied the technical parts to the How to thread and left this one so people can still have a place to ask you questions.
FYI, this method worked great.
Couple of notes
-Use a 5lb hammer and don't be afraid to give it a good whack.
-I shot it with some rattle can undercoating. Especially behind the fold where I couldn't be sure I got good coverage with the paint.
Last edited by SkidMarx; 11-02-2011 at 06:50 AM. Reason: Used the medium hammer not the BFH.
Once i got it folded over a bit using the vice grips, it bent the rest of the way easily using a 3lb sledge. Not very hard to do at all.
In my step 5 when i say "make sure you shoot some behind the bend you created", i think that's a bit of an understatement on my part..... i sprayed so much primer back there that it was basically pouring out the bottom.
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