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[GT Jimmy]

Have any of you good people fitted the door bottom repair panel available from minispares? How easy/hard are they to fit? My door bottoms are goosed

 

 

Thanks, Jimmy

[jamesquintin]

I got the magnum one from minispares, but mine was no where near as bad as yours. Just used my panel for two patches (I couldn't bend the sheet I had into a crisp rough bend)

[GT Jimmy]

Was it well made? It would be way better than anything I could knock up, I think I'll get one ordered anyway

[Daz1968]

Can’t comment on mk3 type doors but I fitted an m machine replacement bottom on my mk2 doors and it was easy to do, just make a template before cutting metal away so you can align the repair panel and trim to size correctly, just be careful door is kept square after cutting bottom off.

[GT Jimmy]

What put me off is that it says on the minispares listing that it needs fitting by an experienced person, and that ain't me haha. I have a flat bench in the garage so I could lie it on that while welding it up, cheers for the advice

[sonikk4]

They are not that difficult to do. Be sensible where you cut to fit it in. You don't have to use all of it. Plus remember you will have to add end pieces if the rot on your door is full length.

 

Have a look on Project Paddy, Project Erm, Wills Mini Special. Used on all of them

[GT Jimmy]

Thanks, I'll give them a look before I do it

[harrythehat]

where ever possible I make my own

its not hard to do as long as these some metal there.

 

I make the cut out that's needed

then using the strip have cut out clamp it to a fresh piece of steel allowing the extra width for fold etc

 

carefully cutting along the line of the two clamped pieces gives a virtually exact shape of what u have cut out

a few minutes of trimming gets it fitting really close

then tack into position welding more as u go

I turn it upside down then fully weld the other side which when ground down looks like original

 

once its all welded in

using a piece of 50x 50 x 1.5mm angle iron clamp it along the bottom edge, a couple of tacks as well if needed,

then I make the fold it does not have to be as sharp as long as its along the same line.

then cut of excess to make same depth of lip.

 

 

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[harrythehat]

OOPS repeated pics

[sonikk4]

Something else you need to look at are both returns as they will be rusty and need changing before you re skin the door. I make all of my stuff from 0.9mm steel sheet.

 

Plus anything else you can see chop it out, repair it then fit the skins.

 

A tip here, once the the door is repaired and not skinned, hang the door in the aperture then off up the skin. Look how it sits, the gaps etc and pin it in place. I use skin pins here to pin it in place.

 

Again my threads show this. Also its worth adding dummy weights to make the door sit right for gaps etc.