So I have to fab up a set of rear bottom corners on my pig. Anyone have any tricks to making these? I wish there were patch panels I could weld in. Straight panels are easy but these things are a total different beast.
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hey bud post a pic of the area you are replaceing and Ill walk ya trough it.
great question, it sure would be great if someone, ie, maybe lomass would start making these.
I have to make some next year for mine.
I'll probably cut the area out...
lay it on the table...
cut a new piece about the same size and try to form it in the correct 3 dimensional shape. It should be very close.
anywhere that doesn't cooperate I'll cut, bend, splice,etc
when I'm through, I'm sure It will be a little rough, I'll then butt weld it in and then add filler hopefully just a skim coat. and if it still looks rough I might cover it with some of the rock chip preventing textured stick on panel.
I have to make some next year for mine.
I'll probably cut the area out...
lay it on the table...
cut a new piece about the same size and try to form it in the correct 3 dimensional shape. It should be very close.
anywhere that doesn't cooperate I'll cut, bend, splice,etc
when I'm through, I'm sure It will be a little rough, I'll then butt weld it in and then add filler hopefully just a skim coat. and if it still looks rough I might cover it with some of the rock chip preventing textured stick on panel.
I might need a little help with mine too.
They're getting a little rough around the edges.
They're getting a little rough around the edges.
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Here is what I'm looking for. I thought about priming it and glassing it. But I'd rather have steel in there. The other side was crash damage. I've got the top patch panel from a donor but the bottom corner was rusted out also.
looks like its time to add a English wheel to the tool collection. 
Just leave a zero off when the wife asks how much it costs.
Just leave a zero off when the wife asks how much it costs.
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Well dood, if you find a source or if it helps, I could stand to have two new corner for my 69! I've got some bondo (although I think I knocked most of it off this weekend) I'm missing some metal and what is there is pretty dinged up. I'm planning on making a bumper to protect it, but right now I wonder if what I've got is worth protecting..
That's gonna be a tough one. What I was thinking, about 6 wheeling trips ago, was getting one from a parts rig. I'm still planning on bobbing it, but now I'm not sure how I'm going to match up the mashed rear corners with the sides. It doesn't seem it would be worth it for me to buy good corners and then trash them again.
There's a couple of parts rigs in the classifieds that might be worth buying the corners off of.
The other option would be to have a professional pound one out.
There's a couple of parts rigs in the classifieds that might be worth buying the corners off of.
The other option would be to have a professional pound one out.
Pig members think alike. I have been thinking of bobbing the pig too and voiced a similar concern this week. It would be about impossible to cleanly match up the crunched panels with an 18" segment missing. It almost seems easier to skip the whole stock rear and fab a new one and use a tube gate. I guess when it gets rolled hard enough the top will come off and the "ah, fxxx it, sawzall" will come out. And as a wise man once told me after my first truck got totaled "don't worry, there ain't nothing a few gallons of bondo can't fix".
Now with the post, if you can fab up new corner bottoms, you have some skill. That is a pretty tight bend that needs to be pretty stiff. Reshaping the existing corners is probably your option, unless you can do that stuff that that Eshan guy from pakistan does. That guy is the picasso of pigs.
Now with the post, if you can fab up new corner bottoms, you have some skill. That is a pretty tight bend that needs to be pretty stiff. Reshaping the existing corners is probably your option, unless you can do that stuff that that Eshan guy from pakistan does. That guy is the picasso of pigs.
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Hmmm. I wonder if I could cut a section out of a trailer fender. Hmmmm
Time to get the cutting discs out or become the best metal worker in the upstate. Maybe ask that guy who is redoing the 45 he does the best metalwork I have ever seen. You know the one I'm talking about Marshall the guy with like 75 pages of pictures.
Hmmm. I wonder if I could cut a section out of a trailer fender. Hmmmm
sweet, found a make your own English wheel site. should save you about 2500 by welding up your own
link http://www.roddingroundtable.com/tech/articles/12ewheel.html
I seriously doubt an English wheel can help at all in making that corner piece.
I agree the bend is to tight.
I learned how to make patches with compound shapes in the restoration of a 69 camaro. the inner wheelhouses, outer wheelhouses and the attachment to the quarters had lots of swiss cheese areas.
I used several different techniques but mainly thin cardboard templates and beating the heck out of pieces using a short piece of railroad rail as an anvil.
I tried to not deform the piece I cut out, then make a perfect copy on the workbench, instead of laying on my back. then as I would tack the patch in, I could then effect the exact shape and make it fit even better.
The advantage of inside the wheel wells was that it was going to be covered with undercoating.
I thought it was impossible too before I tried it.
If you cut small pieces out and make small patches you want lose your reference points. Lots of stuff online on how to make a flat piece curved.
Indeed, matt , buck roseau is a true expert in the 45 section
I used several different techniques but mainly thin cardboard templates and beating the heck out of pieces using a short piece of railroad rail as an anvil.
I tried to not deform the piece I cut out, then make a perfect copy on the workbench, instead of laying on my back. then as I would tack the patch in, I could then effect the exact shape and make it fit even better.
The advantage of inside the wheel wells was that it was going to be covered with undercoating.
I thought it was impossible too before I tried it.
If you cut small pieces out and make small patches you want lose your reference points. Lots of stuff online on how to make a flat piece curved.
Indeed, matt , buck roseau is a true expert in the 45 section
cruiserbrett
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Get a lead shot panel beaters bag, and some mallets. It will rought it out, then you can smooth it with a round anvil and the hammer. Its going to take some time!!!
Use the thinest sheetmeat you can, 16 ga will take you forever to shape by hand...
Use the thinest sheetmeat you can, 16 ga will take you forever to shape by hand...
PabloCruise
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hammer and a leather pad 
