RH Door Repair/Rust Question
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RH Door Repair/Rust Question
The RH Door on my car is very rusty at the top on the inside where the window felt attaches as well as at the bottom. Do the replacement door skins wrap around at the top into the interior of the door where it wraps around where the felt attaches?
Does anyone have a link with pics of a door skin being replaced?
Does anyone have a link with pics of a door skin being replaced?
Do you have a picture of the rust? When you say inside do you mean between the panels where the glass rolls down into or do you mean inside of the car?
I've never re skinned a door before but I think you want to remove the whole outer panel of the door and then you just weld the new outer sheet metal to the door frame. So if you have rust on the inside of the car this won't fix your problem. Also, I'm pretty sure it's tough to weld the new skin on without warping it from the heat.
My doors have a couple of holes at the bottom and I just cut out the rusty area and used auto body panel glue to put a patch over the top. A little fiberglass filler and some regular filler on top of that and you will never know it's there. The holes were filled with filler only when I bought it and they just rusted right up through the filler so you must put clean metal on top. It depends on how bad your rust is if you can go this route or not and it's tough to tell until you strip the paint. All I can say is good luck.
I've never re skinned a door before but I think you want to remove the whole outer panel of the door and then you just weld the new outer sheet metal to the door frame. So if you have rust on the inside of the car this won't fix your problem. Also, I'm pretty sure it's tough to weld the new skin on without warping it from the heat.
My doors have a couple of holes at the bottom and I just cut out the rusty area and used auto body panel glue to put a patch over the top. A little fiberglass filler and some regular filler on top of that and you will never know it's there. The holes were filled with filler only when I bought it and they just rusted right up through the filler so you must put clean metal on top. It depends on how bad your rust is if you can go this route or not and it's tough to tell until you strip the paint. All I can say is good luck.
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There isn't much welding to a door skin. Just a few spot welds. Mostly grinding the old off and carefully folding the new skin on to the frame. As stratman says, the permanent cure is new metal. Filler will only last a year or so at best.
As far as your rust issue, is the rust part of the skin or down in the channel which is part of the door frame? This is common with older sliding window door. Sometimes better to get a good door frame to begin with, although repair sections are available. Here's a link to the channel pieces for a sliding window door.
http://www.m-machine.co.uk/MM%20Panels_150.htm
As far as your rust issue, is the rust part of the skin or down in the channel which is part of the door frame? This is common with older sliding window door. Sometimes better to get a good door frame to begin with, although repair sections are available. Here's a link to the channel pieces for a sliding window door.
http://www.m-machine.co.uk/MM%20Panels_150.htm
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