The rust spot on my car was driving me crazy so I decided to do something about it. I got a donor quarter panel from the junk yard and I started tearing into it today. Here's some pics of the rust and my junk yard panel.

Ruuuuuuuuuuuussssstttttt









The car I quarter I got from the junk yard.



Cleaning off all the seam sealer.






Working into the night! I drilled out all the spot welds to separate the outer panel from the inner skin. This is proving to be more difficult than I thought! I did get the panel off though, no pics of that quite yet. Tomorrow.





More tomorrow. I'm going to try and bang this repair out in just a few days! This should be fun, or a disaster! Who knows

 

Good luck! I think I saw some of those pics on the MCF Facebook page.

 

Best of luck! Should be great when you're all done. Might I recommend the use of POR15 (a strong rust inhibitor) as you do this?

 

lookn good Justin!
That's probably what I should do.
Good Luck!
Keep up with the pics!
Thanks for sharing your experience with us.

 

Good luck with the project - can't wait to see the finished product!

 

Looks like a fun project

 

Wow that rust is worse than I thought. Looks like you got a nice quarter section to use for the repair. Looking forward to the progress and final product. Good luck man.

 

Cant wait to see how the project goes!! And cant wait to see it done! haha

 

so glad my car isnt that way

 

Jason, I did pick up some POR15 to paint the trouble areas as I do the repair. A quick question for you as I know you have some experience with it - To be effective does the sheet metal have to be coated on both sides? If I were to paint the inside of my new panel would that be effective? Or would I need to paint the inside and outside, say around the gas door where it's prone to rust?