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[mk=john]

Hi
My mini is a 1960 Mini Minor. For the door striker cover on the pillar I have managed to remove the screws and had to use an impact driver and hammer. I have made a big mistake though. This is really stupid, but I have hit the screws too hard and dented the metal on the body inwards, just around the area where the screws fit. Lapse of concentration and commons sense i soppose.
There doesn't seem to be a way of getting anything behind it to knock it back out again...

Picture attatched showing the area, it seems to be dented inwards about 2mm or so (the picture doesn't show that however).

Can anyone please help? How can i pull this out?

Cheers

[HARBER07]

Ive never owned a mini that old, so i might be missing something. But if you put the striker plate back on and tighten up the screws, will it pull the bodywork back into position again? Just thinking out loud....

[mk=john]

Ive never owned a mini that old, so i might be missing something. But if you put the striker plate back on and tighten up the screws, will it pull the bodywork back into position again? Just thinking out loud....

Hiya
No, that won't work as the plate was on there as I struck the fixing screw with a hammer. I think i might have two options:

1) drill a hole at the panel behind, and tap with a screwdriver from the back
2) weld a bar onto the front (In picture) temporarily, and use a slide hammer effect to pull it out

But i don't know will work to be honest.

[JustGo4It_]

Get 2 pull rods, insert them into the screw holes, tips facing each other and try to pull the area out.

[mk=john]

Get 2 pull rods, insert them into the screw holes, tips facing each other and try to pull the area out.

What do you mean by pull rods wityh tips facing each other?

[Ethel]

Make up a spreader with a couple of holes in pass the bolts through it and in to captive nuts so they pull the dent out as you tighten the bolts. It looks stretched so won't pull out fully.

[mk=john]

Make up a spreader with a couple of holes in pass the bolts through it and in to captive nuts so they pull the dent out as you tighten the bolts. It looks stretched so won't pull out fully.

Hi
I have now fixed it, it looks almost perfect. I made a puller, similar to a hub puller but welding a threaded rod to a plate with a hole on each side of the rod. I screwed this into the two holes seen in the picture. The rod then passed through another plate with a hole in it and a nut on the other side. Tightening the nut pulled the dent no problems.

Thanks for the help.

Edited by mk=john, 15 August 2009 - 04:58 PM.

[JustGo4It_]

Get 2 pull rods, insert them into the screw holes, tips facing each other and try to pull the area out.

What do you mean by pull rods wityh tips facing each other?

http://www.tptools.c...l-Rod-Sets.html

put one pull rod in each hole, turn the rod so the tips are facing each other. This will concentrate the pulling force on the center of the striker plate and hopefully pull the dent out. You can use a hair drier or heat gun to warm the metal up, this will make the metal pull out easier.

Edited by JustGo4It_, 17 August 2009 - 04:47 AM.