Door Pin Bushings

[rotorhead22]

Is there a trick to getting the bronze door pin bushings out ? I'm slowly breaking them off in pieces.

 

[rotorhead22]

Well that was fun however new pins, bushings and door striker plastic returned it to like new

 

[90sickfox]

I used to fight door pins but now I just cut them.

 

[rotorhead22]

While I was hanging the fender I decided to just remove or fill the antenna hole, took like four minutes

 

[rotorhead22]

I wish it was that easy however my neighbor is a retired welder that is bored out of his mind

 

[General karthief]

Ahhhhhh, I think it's not a good idea to paint over duct tape but hey, what do I know

 

[rotorhead22]

Going to need some hammer and dolly smoothing

 

[rotorhead22]

It was a little more involved than I thought because that metal is thiiiiiiiiin. Even though I stitch welded it still warped some

 

[rotorhead22]

Well I decided to just go ahead and go down that rabbit hole of painting. The nose piece was originally red and it’s been a pain to remove all paint because it was just chipping off.Left front fender has holes under side trim so I filled those with soldering method because I can’t weld worth a crap.

 

[limp]

The body man who painted my Dodge, used a 60 grit ( or maybe it was a 40 grit) on his " bondo buster" and made taking off the old paint look pretty easy...