Welding, welding, welding....

Managed to spend some time revisiting those areas of the '82 that were "treated and released". The side marker deletes were showing signs of corrosion and the patches sent to me by Layne of BF fame were just the fix! Bondo just sucks for anything more than a very thin skim coat. After a while the expansion of the patch just pops the damn thing off and you waste so much time you are better of welding in new steel. I'm convinced that any large patch with that stuff is a time bomb. I am debating redoing the rear wheel well... The base patch looks okay but there is compromised metal near the patch. I have the WandN panel to do it, just have to build up courage and find time to get it done. Here are some pics of the work so far.

Shots of the drivers side panel with the marker delete discs welded in. you can see the patch panel left over from last year but the bondo outer coating was popping off. 

 Pic of the passenger side. I took too much steel off the edge and the welder blew holes in the panel! Ouch! Got some building up of the bead to make up for it!

 This is the seam at the rear valence that was patched over with just bondo and the rust started to come through. I decided it was best to just shoot a bead of weld along the ground out seam. Man, does that inner panel seal catch on fire! Yikes!

Passenger side close up with some additional weld bead to close the holes. Welded inside and out. Thanks Layne!