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everybody it's not here at the eastwood garage in the next text series we're
going to be showing you how to replace a lower door skin on an older vehicle this
is something a lot of you guys are probably coming up against with any
project you're working on really showing you everything from checking out how bad
the rust is how to properly fit a new panel using used wood products and then
the finish of it and the next textures will be showing you how to do the
fillers and primers and everything to get it a seamless repair so i'm going to
take the door off
forget it on the understand and go from there okay now we've got the door on the
fender stand the mark use the black stripping disk and he removed the paint
to give you a line of where we're going to replace this panel now we're going to
take some measurements to make sure that the replacement panel that we build fits
the door perfectly in the door opening okay now what we've actually done is
we've taken some measurements both lengthwise from the bottom up to this
line that we drew to get some reference points for making our replacement panel
to make sure that it's a identical to the part that were actually cutting out
so now we're going to get some cutting going to show you a couple different
ways you can cut this panel apart
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as you can see in the last couple shots we use both the electric sheer an angle
grinder with a cut-off wheel to remove the worst part of the door we're gonna
be using this later for a little bit of a pattern but for now we're going to
take care of the rust that's inside of the door and the areas that are now
accessible with some Eastwood rust encapsulator while this is drying will
be working on getting some of the patch panels made up as you can see here we've
gathered together the essential items that you'll need to complete this repair
other than a handful shop item this is all you're going to need
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now we have our first repair panel cut the size going to make a nice clean
90-degree Bend with a 30 inch metal brake before formula
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now that we have this piece spin would actually take it over to our shrinker
stretcher and show you can form it really easily with the shrinker
stretcher this tool was something that you guys have to have I mean this is
going to take much longer if you're trying to use a hammer and Dolly piece
of wood whatever that we're just going to show you how quickly and easy to make
this compound bend to the lower corner of the door
another mark bent this to shape with the shrinker stretcher going to show you
where we're going to be working with this is the original area that a no it's
all right away you can see here we made the bend
it's going to be just about perfect how it's going to fit in the end we're going
to place it down here
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if you have your first panels fabricated next thing you want to do is get these
little thin strips that we include in our panel replacement kit let's see we
actually fitted one here already
these really help with if you don't make a straight cut with your either your
patch panel where the original metal you can get these bud together and get a
nice solid well between the two panels also helps for any guys that are a
beginner to have problems with burning through when you make welding these so
we're going to take this little piece here that we already cut to fit line it
up now you're gonna get a sneak peek of this this first plug welding kit that
were just about to come out with this with the attachment on your MIG welder
allow you to make perfect spot welds almost every single time
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as you saw in the last couple shots we've got this first panel fitted again
showing why these backe strips are really great so we got these all
attached wash spot-welded with the spot weld attachment now we're going to take
this second half we fabricated and welded into place
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alright we got done a little bit of rough grinding here with a little more
finished grinding and a skim coat of filler and this should be ready for
paint now we're going to flip it over the other side but you get a little bit
of a look at the the patch panel we made for the front half and a couple little
tips and tricks to attaching the front door
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ok now you can see we actually have the door skin pretty much finished ground
and the next thing you're going to want to do before test fitting it you know
actually fold the width of this door skin over just like it was from the
factory we have a couple little holes drilled going to do some spot loves
after that's all done but there's two different ways you can do this the first
which you saw me doing is using one of our hammers have our pro-kit actually
has a door skidding head on it perfect for doing this
just hold the the dolly right near the edge and you can get the hammer right on
here and it along the edge and fold it over real nice
the second way here is an acne actually use our door skin installation pliers
these work a similar way to start you know your crimping instead of hitting it
with a hammer
so you can actually put this over the edge like that and then you start slowly
folding it over and working your way this is nice for anybody that you know
isn't as comfortable with the hammer and Dolly doesn't one nice smooth motion all
right now we've got our door test fitted everything went pretty smoothly
we're going to a couple more minor adjustments going to take the door back
off and in our next text series we're going to show you how to use our new
filler line to make this a seamless repair state in
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