If you can do the welding yourself I can see how this would be a good way
to go.
But it seems with the amount of work that is required here it would be just
as easy to
just buy the $50.00 door skin and have it mounted. Am I mistaken?
-JW
At 09:50 PM 9/20/99 -0600, Larry Hoy wrote:
>Bobby I had the same experience with the crack of doom. I explained to the
>body shop how I wanted it repaired. I guess he figured that he had a better
>way ... he didn't. Mine waited about 1 year to re-appear.
>
>I fixed it the second time and it worked well. First you have to thoroughly
>clean the area to bare steel. Then determine where the crack ends. You
>drill a 1/8" hole at the end of the crack. Then at about 1/2" spacing drill
>holes along each side of the crack. The next step is to form a piece of
>sheet metal to fit on the inside of the door, this just needs to be big
>enough to cover the crack and the newly drilled holes. Then you weld the
>sheet metal to the door, through the holes. At this point you just finish
>the surface and paint.
>
>Good luck.
>
>Larry Hoy
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: owner-mgs@autox.team.net [mailto:owner-mgs@autox.team.net]On
>> Behalf Of Bob DeWeese
>> Sent: Monday, September 20, 1999 6:57 PM
>> To: MG Mailing List
>> Subject: Crack of doom #&%^*@%!!!!
>
>> As part of the body work I had the "crack of doom" repaired. I finally
>got
>> to put that right side view mirror on. Here-in lies the problem.
>>
>> About three weeks after I put the mirror back on, guess what's coming
>back.
>> THE CRACK! Now in all fairness the gut said he couldn't guarantee that it
>> wouldn't come back, but I figured I'd get more that three weeks out of it.
>
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