1971 Olds "S71" Quarter Panel Repair V8TV

http://www.v8tvshow.com - The quarter panels were next on the list of repairs on the "S71" Olds project. We were contemplating this area for a while, as the original steel had some rust in the wheel well lip and along the bottom edge, but it was otherwise in great shape. We elected to do a minimally-invasive repair and use part of a replacement quarter panel skin from YearOne to do the job.

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• Oldsmobile
• Chevelle
• 1971
• S71
• quarter
• panel
• repair
• V8TV

[cobybaalman]

For those of you like me who do not have a spot welder i found that if you drill a hole through one of the panels and weld through that hole it makes a fairly good spot weld it just takes a little more work but saves you the cost of a spot welder

[TheCinreds]

@cobybaalman thats what body men do if they dont have a spot welder! still a good Technic

[Mantas840]

So you lap welded the patch in? Why didn't you butt weld it?

[TheCinreds]

@aeropostalbaby1 if you dont have a welder then there is no point of drilling the holes,the Technic is called plug welding. a spot welder is a hand held machine that pinches the two panels together and fuses them via heat basically welding the two panels together! If you have a regular mig welder you could drill out the holes on the outer panel that touches the inner panel and just weld the holes up!

[aeropostalbaby1]

@TheCinreds how do you drill a hole and then weld if you dont have a welder? that makes no sense

[Lonewolf3165]

Interesting technique.

[blactcar]

Please repair my car it HAS NO RUST! And the car has no bondo and It just has a beat up door driverside and just another bump in front of the fender passengers side other than that the car is in awesome condition but unfortunatley Idont know how to weld nor how to paint a car! I seriously need help restoring this car its worht it 1970 cutlass supreme with a 350 engine in it.!

[bigpencap]

he made a lot of extra work for himself that's one way of doing it

[robvk6]

da!!! lol

[vcval]

on the episode that you demonstrated on how to make a factory looking weld one of the tools you used wehen reversed made a little rebate did you use this tool when you did guard ?