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posted on 22-7-2010 at 01:14 PM

Not sure if this embedded file will work, but it's a short clip of the shockingly bad filler panel gap prior to repair

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cr554FQJb7U

I also put a couple other video clips on youtube as well. Will be taking more from now on.

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posted on 23-7-2010 at 05:58 PM

Spent a heap more time on the rear end today fixing up some sloppy work I'd done. I'm still not happy with it and need to go back later and do a few tiny things.

It's a real pain in the butt trying to get the lines back into the rear taillight surrounds. When I started it was all cracked bog that I had to remove with a heat gun. I prob should have just bought a new rear end and glassed it in! Would've been so much quicker/easier.

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posted on 23-7-2010 at 08:42 PM

Your doing some nice work there demonx!

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posted on 30-8-2010 at 04:47 PM

Over the last couple weekends I've got my butt out there again trying to finish off the door gaps and some other little marks on the rear quarters.

This time I took a couple of "before pics".

Even though the doors were lines up the best I could so the biggest percentage of the door was inline, the top line was out by a mill or two. You can see in this first pic.

Also even though the majority of the door gap was good you can see in this pic the edge needed just a little bot of help.

After sanding it back with 80 grit so theres something for the PPG fibreglass filler to grap onto I spread a generous amount across the area.

Then block sand it back to this:

The fronts didn't really need doing, but I figured I'd give them the same treatment just in case there was anything not quite visable to the eye.

You can see in this pic the fronts were no-where near as bad as the rear.

Just hitting a few spots that need some extra attention before the whole area gets a spray with thick primer which I'll block back.

When I was doing the rear quarter panels I noticed a bit in the back that I'd forgotten to go back and finish. It was a section where the fibreglass had gone brittle, so instead of bogging over it I grinded it out and made a fibreglass patch.

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