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Question? what is involved in patching the rear quarters. Mine has some minor holes above the rear tires. Yes I can weld and fabricate( 13yr ironworker) however I have never welded on a car before. Does the interior need to come out, can i just go a couple inches above the rust or should I change the complete quarter (non t-top).

Any help would be appreciated.
Scoty

 

Scoty - I hear ya. I had the exact same thing. Decided to go the cheap route (I figured why spend a couple hundred for quarters for just a couple small holes just above the arch?) and fabricated the patches and welded them in. WOW, was it ever more invovled then I thought! I can say (in my opinion) that getting the quarters would be a lot easier (no molding patches to complex curves) but a lot more expensive. Either way, (MIG) welding is the route to go.

In my experieces, I found it can be tough because of the thiness of the metal which makes it easy to blow holes, but as long as you keep them clamped with no gap, it works out well (gaps seemed to be my enemy!). The other thing I learned to be careful of is not to weld any more than a short stich in any one area at a time. THis will avoid warping. Just so you know, these are issues I found, however, I am certainly no expert welder so there very well may be other methods of easily avoiding these issues that I didn't know about. But I am very pleased with the results! :lala:

If you are interested I can post some pics. I took detailed pics of the whole project.

Hope this helps!

 

sorry, forgot to mention.....the interior does not have to be removed for welding on the rear quarters (unless you are welding near the tail lights in which I removed the interior trim panels back there).

The other thing I forgot to mention was that if you have holes, it is guaranteed that your inner fender panel (wheel well) will be in rough shape where it meets the outer quarter. If you want to do it right, you will have to patch that as well when you cut out the metal from the outer quarter.

 

I take you have 91 camaro RS you can get lower quarters for the older cars but not sure abought yours. and how far up are the holes

 

Thanks fo the help guys.
The rust is just above the wheel opening on the lip. zI also have a buddy that has a donor car for the sheetmetal, so that shouldn't be a problem I was thinking of cutting out about three in all the way aroound the wheel well that would be much more than where the rust is.

Just not sure of what is involved in cutting out the metal. Is this something I could do over a weekend?
Thanks Scoty

 

Finish in a weekend? Depends on how long it takes!
I gotta weld some patches inside the wheel well. I got some pointers-Disconnect negative battery terminal first & keep ground wire as close to work as possible-same panel. I'm borrowing a plasma cutter from work to keep the edges clean.

 

first of all you can do this in a weekend ,and I would out of what I needed from the doner when you get the part you need cut out fit it up agenst your car as good as you can and take a marker and mark around the old quarter this will be your mark to cut after you cut your quater out you just mig weld the new one in