No, but I can check it for you. I have to patch my front corners too. I can give ypu a scrap of new metal and a couple special hammers if you want to find a chunk of wood and try beating it into shape.
I'm in th process of doing this myself. I have removed the interior brace and its pretty crusty on the ends. I was going to try to beat some small patch panels together for the hard top.
I figured the easiest way to maintain the curves of the roof was to use two or three pie shaped pieces. The points of the pies came back to haunt me as they ended up burning to nothing and I was left with a hole to fill.
I cut out the biggest piece first and welded it to the sill and the back edge first. I put some holes in the bent sill part to spot weld in place to maintain the double thickness at the sill.
The black paint on the somewhat rusted brace that lies under the roof is Chassie Saver. The paint store claimed it was better than POR15.
These are my hammers and my french curve of anvils that I found in the wood pile. It worked really well for the compound curves. I used the pipe for the straight curves.
It was very hard to get the patch piece the right size for the hole, as it changed shape and size as I shaped and re-shaped the piece. The fine tuning of the patch was done as I welded it in place.
Still need to get to two more holes along the front and then the PS corner.
I'm still new to welding and have trouble getting the joints perfect like some of the guys on this forum. And I think I do more heat warping from all the grinding I need to do.
On the PS corner I decided to try a one piece patch instead of the three pie shaped pieces I put on the DS corner. Maybe my panel beating is better than my welding.
I have read that the old time panel beaters had leather hammers with convex and concave heads. These were used to either stretch the metal or to shrink it. I don't have any of those hammers but I had the french curve of anvils from the wood pile and a rounded rubber mallet.
I spent a little over two hours (my time doesn't cost me) to shape the corner patch. It was crazy how a little bend in one place would throw off the line I had shaped on another side of the patch. There will still be a little stress in the patch when I weld it in. Clamps will take care of that.
I hope the heat of welding doesn't distort the piece too much.
The is dragging me to Fernie for the long weekend, so I'll be lucky if we get home at a decent hour on Sunday and can weld in a patch or two.
On the bright side, Monday morning I'll make a quick trip across the border to Eureka MT and pick up my new SOR seat covers and some window trim from Beno at American Toyota. Gotta love that $1.05 US dollar.
I may also replace a few inches of the lip of the sill as well. It's not a concourse resto but if I feel the welding gods are smiling on me I may go for it.
The patches came out fairly well. The corner piece had a number of dents from the ball peen hammer that will require a thin layer of fill to cover.
The window valance piece that you can see where the patch is cut out was in much better shape than the DS side. I just wire brushed off the rusty scale and painted with the chassie saver.
is dragging me to Fernie for the long weekend, so I'll be lucky if we get home at a decent hour on Sunday and can weld in a patch or two.
