Replacement

Installation

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  1. Straighten any damaged parts.

WARNING

To prevent eye injury and burns when welding, wear an approved welding helmet, gloves and safety shoes.

  • Fill any holes by MIG welding and even out with a hammer and dolly.

WARNING

To prevent eye injury, wear goggles or safety glasses whenever sanding, cutting or grinding.

  • Level and finish the burns on the welding flanges with a disc sander or belt sander.

  1. Preparations of new parts.
  • Cut the new outer panel so it will overlap by 20-30mm (0.8-1.2 in.) to the panel of the body side.

  1. OVERLAP

  • Where new panels cannot be spot welded, make holes for plug welding.
  • Make holes to the size which corresponds to the thickness of the welded plate (see page 2-19).
  • The position and the point by which holes are made, refer to the old parts or Mass Production Body Welding Diagram (see section 3).

  1. NEW PART
  2. OLD PART
  3. Apply rust prevention processing on welded surface.

WARNING

To prevent eye injury, wear goggles of safety glasses whenever sanding.

  • Remove the undercoat from both sides of the areas to be spot welded with a sander to expose the steel plate.
  • Apply the spot sealer to the welding surface of the new parts and body side.

NOTE: Spread the spot sealer coat on the welding surface so that there is no bare areas.