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My hood repair pics

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thought i would post some pics of my rookie metal work on hood :cry: . The 1st pic is the before and i sure was scratching my head on this one :hmm: . After sleeping on it for about 2 months :zz: i decided to take a shot at it. I figured i could not make it worse than what it is. The 2nd pic, I decided to cut the rusted area out in about 8 inch increments and replace it as i go hoping that i would not lose contour of hood. after all the metal was replaced ,i grinded and sanded on the welds seem like forever. I had some bondo glass on hand so i used it to help get any imperfections in my metal work out. The deepest i went with the bondo glass was about 1/8 inch in one small area. After block sanding the bondo to get shape back in hood i went over that with polyester putty to help with the smallest imperfections. The 3rd pic is my long awaited results :hd: I ended up with a good shape on the curve of the hood .
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couple more pics of hood
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Looks good :thup:
I'm so glad the my hood only has some surface rust
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Very impressive work there.
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wow yeah, nice work!

thats about what my hood looked like on my north carolina truck... something about the condensation coming up from the ground, i think, gets in there
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motzingg wrote:wow yeah, nice work!

thats about what my hood looked like on my north carolina truck... something about the condensation coming up from the ground, i think, gets in there
I read somewhere that the battery fumes can cause it to. The drivers side is still in good shape.
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looks good.. I'd like to paint the bottom of my hood as well.. I guess the color should match the top? Or go black?
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jlb wrote:looks good.. I'd like to paint the bottom of my hood as well.. I guess the color should match the top? Or go black?
I'm going same color as truck which is blue. After all that work i want that sucker to shine :D
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