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Bohemian
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82 K5 Blazer ...
While In the process of repairing, replacing worn out door moving parts on my 39 year old Chevy; and as part of the process I wanted to replace the beat up door strikers...
I Pulled the first one off on the passenger side and found metal fatigue cracks, from door slamming and wire brushed up to see how bad & to take a picture (attached).
As you can see from picture I caught it early enough where drilling a hole at each end of crack, v-ing out the cracks and a little mig welding and grinding would probably be a good fix for many...
I'm thinking it's going to do it again next to the welds IF I don't weld something up behind it too...
Therein lies the problem, I don't see a way around cutting a big ass hole from inside the cab to do it and then weld that back up :-(
Has anybody done this kind of repair on a square body door jamb before?
Was your approach any different and how did it hold up?
thanks in advance.
While In the process of repairing, replacing worn out door moving parts on my 39 year old Chevy; and as part of the process I wanted to replace the beat up door strikers...
I Pulled the first one off on the passenger side and found metal fatigue cracks, from door slamming and wire brushed up to see how bad & to take a picture (attached).
As you can see from picture I caught it early enough where drilling a hole at each end of crack, v-ing out the cracks and a little mig welding and grinding would probably be a good fix for many...
I'm thinking it's going to do it again next to the welds IF I don't weld something up behind it too...
Therein lies the problem, I don't see a way around cutting a big ass hole from inside the cab to do it and then weld that back up :-(
Has anybody done this kind of repair on a square body door jamb before?
Was your approach any different and how did it hold up?
thanks in advance.
