{"id":842,"date":"2012-03-10T15:49:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-10T21:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/?p=842"},"modified":"2025-02-10T19:58:51","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T01:58:51","slug":"drive-side-quarter-panel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/drive-side-quarter-panel\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver Side Quarter Panel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>OK &#8211; done with breakfast and already had the Sharpie out scribbling on the car. Top line is where the new quarter panel section will reach up to. Other lines are where I&#8217;m going to cut using the plasma cutter. Here goes nothing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"585\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/leftquarter1.jpg?resize=780%2C585&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-843\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/leftquarter1.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/leftquarter1.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/leftquarter1.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Got the big piece cut out, and cut off the bad piece of the outer wheelhouse as well. Looks like the rust is mostly staying low on the car &#8211; which is good. Gotta burn through some stripping wheels now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"585\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/leftquarter2.jpg?resize=780%2C585&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-844\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/leftquarter2.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/leftquarter2.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/leftquarter2.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>After more trimming and cleaning, I finally got the outer wheelhouse &#8216;section&#8217; test-fitted in there. Also used the pneumatic flange tool to &#8216;step&#8217; the car&#8217;s sheet metal to accept the new quarter skin and stripped the paint.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"585\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/leftquarter3.jpg?resize=780%2C585&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-845\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/leftquarter3.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/leftquarter3.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/leftquarter3.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I got the new wheelhouse section trimmed up and welded in, along with the trunk drop-off (after test-fitting the quarter section as well). Finished up with some seam sealer and Rust Bullet on the places I&#8217;ll never see again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"585\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/leftquarter4.jpg?resize=780%2C585&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-846\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/leftquarter4.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/leftquarter4.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/leftquarter4.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Different angle &#8211; also cleaned all the old undercoating and stuff from the inside of the wheel well. Just gotta stick the quart panel section on now (next weekend&#8217;s fun).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"585\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/leftquarter5.jpg?resize=780%2C585&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-847\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/leftquarter5.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/leftquarter5.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/leftquarter5.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK &#8211; done with breakfast and already had the Sharpie out scribbling on the car. Top line is where the new quarter panel section will reach up to. Other lines are where I&#8217;m going to cut using the plasma cutter. Here goes nothing. Got the big piece cut out, and cut off the bad piece [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blather","category-mach1"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=842"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1333,"href":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842\/revisions\/1333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}