Thread: 53 Is back from the Body Shop

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Finally got up the nerve to install my new tail gate latches, I always get nervous about welding things to new panels. I'm pretty happy how they turned out. I was going to weld a solid bead across the top just for looks but the latches are thinner than I thought. I burned a hold in one welding the pin to the housing, that took a bit to fix. I think I will use some seam sealer just to smooth out the top instead.

Put some more color on a bunch of misc parts and jammed the box. I was going to paint the fenders at the same time but the sealer didn't lay down as smooth as I liked so I'll sand them down a bit before I paint them. After this, the box is the last thing left to paint. Last week I was thinking about putting A/C in the shed window and yesterday the furnace was running keeping the shop up to temp. 40 deg with rain and gail force winds vs last weeks balmy 80 deg.