Need Help With Dent Removal

I am a long way from being a auto body person, but have been managing to get most of the dents out of the coupe and the rust cut out and replaced. Know it is not metal finished but any body filler is pretty thin, less than 1/16" at most.

When removing dents have been using the sequence of how it occurred and reversing that process fairly successfully.

The problem I have run into is the drivers rear quarter.



Looking for some guidance on how to attack it.

It looks like the quarter was pushed in over the rear fender and was then hammered out, probably with a very big hammer. This left the fender pushed out. Then some one took a torch to it and did a bunch of shrinks over the area, leaving still pushed out about 1/2" and with a bunch of rough quarter sized circles. The two ends are still pushed in a bit and the area where the flat meets the top bead has been pushed out some. So pushed in, pushed out and shrunk with a torch so the metal doesn't even remember where it is suppose to be.

The attached photo shows the low areas 3-4" in diameter at the front and back of the damaged area, pushed out area along bead at the top and the worst part the pushed in/pushed out/ heat shrunk area with the resulting circles from the torch.



What would the best sequence and procedure to attack this damage?

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Canuck

 

Hey,

Here's how I'd attack your repair: First, how's the RT. quarter look? If it's undamaged, or in much better shape than the LT. I'd cut out some cardboard (donut box) templets, say every 6''-8'' throughout the area that matches the damaged area on the LT. Maybe draw a center line through the damaged area to index the templets to?

If you do a clean job of drawing and cutting out the templets, you can use these as a guide to straighten the LT quarter. They will give you plenty if information as to what is high, low and straight. With the information the templets give you I'd start your repair by moving from the undamaged area of the panel, bring the high metal down & the low areas up. The shrunken area in the center of the panel may need to be stretched to allow those lows to return to where they need to be.

maybe you could post some closer photos of the panel?

" Life ain't no Disney movie "

 

Good advice! I might add that you may want to 'rough' out the lows and highs with a wood or plastic mallet, so you don't do any more damage. I would probably grab a steel ******* to start leveling it after that, if the areas are not in need of drastic shrinking or stretching. Go slow and carefully.