Outer wheel house repair

The guy that did the bodywork on my car patched my outer wheel houses but never finished them out. I’m looking for advice on how I should finish these out myself. Should I weld it solid and use duraglass to finish it out or just seam seal and undercoat and be done with it? Thanks in advance!

 

Any advice from the experts?

 

I would weld it myself. Then grind the welds and undercoat it. If this is a 70-72 the LH outer is currently available. I am replacing my 1/4s and have a reproduction RH side,but had to repair my LH one.

 

@hugger?

 

The welds in the second picture look terrible from here. The patch is burned right through. I'd fix those up for sure.

 

Nothing I haven't seen a thousand times....unfortunately.....if there's enough overlap you can plug weld it....I doubt the overlap is consistent enough tho...and you would just end up with holes.....you got a little situation to be honest.....trying to burn it in solid is gonna be a pain in the dick due to contamination from the back side and fitment.

It's not gonna fall out....and if you clean it real well and use some 3m 8115 over the seams pushed in real tight...then bed line or undercoat good and heavy and body wax or undercoat the inside best as possible

If you're a proficient welder you can burn it in solid or at least 1in long stitches are perfectly acceptable

 

Thanks for the reply’s. I’m a pretty good welder, I’ll start stitching and go from there. Guess I was just a little hesitant to weld that close to the freshly painted qaurter panel.

 

I was thinking the same. Plus the contaminants as Ethan said.

 

You're plenty far away

 

If it was me, I'd do as everyone else said. 1 inch or so stitches, clean it, seam sealer nice and neat over top. Then some high-build underbody coating over top. Cavity wax from the back side.

I assume you aren't driving this on salty winter roads or in inclement weather so you should be just fine.

 

I would definitely stitch it. If you have a small belt sander you can clean it up first, and then clean your welds to be flush and clean. I would then coat with an epoxy or self etching primer. Coat as you wish on tip of that.

Nobody should let work leave their shop looking like that.

 

I was actually planning on picking a belt sander up this week as I have to finish out the trunk floor as well. And I agree but all I can do is try to make it right. He put full qaurters on it and I was there helping for most of that and it looks good and I believe was done right at least.

 

It's really not a bad repair. It isn't like it was stuffed with newspaper and tiger hair. The bad metal was cut out and new metal welded in. Just needs a bit of finishing, which it sounds like you are more than capable of handling.