Attaching Wheel Tubs to Outer Body Panel

Edited: 7/10/2007 9:28:05 PM by iLLblazer

I am working on the underside of my floor right now and need to seal up between my wheel tubs and 1/4 panels. Is it a good idea to tack it every couple inches or is it going to show through? Do I just seam seal it and hope the joint holds on its own? I want to do it right so I don't have problems down the road.

i wanted to answer ur question but just couldnt comprehend it

if you can tack on a lip that faces down i would but if your talking about tacking it to the body panels in the middle then I would try not to. You will be surfing in the waves. We have some crazy bonding shit at work that you can accually glue the fenders to the body then seem seal it. And if anyone thinks thats stupid then dont buy a lotus, cause those cars are only glued together. even the frame of lotus elise is glued together....its crazy

is it stiched to the inner structure really good? i don't see the quarters moving at all and crcking the seam sealer. i assume you just aren't wanting to burn through and wreck paint?

thas a good idea too, use some panel bond, i've seen roof skins put on with that stuff.

tack it every inch then run a bead of some sort of body panel glue thats what we did on a blazer

dont weld it. youll warp the h*ll out of your quarter. use the paenl bond, or panel adhesive. goto your local auto body supply place and get some. i have even used windshield glue, wicked crazy stuff thatwindow glue is.

I definitley wasn't going to weld it solid, just a tack every 2 inches or so then seam seal it. The 1/4s need some work anyways so I'm not worried about that. But I just dont want a 'ridge' to show through when its all bodyworked and painted.

So I'd have better luck with 'speedgrip' adhesive maybe?

Speedgrip it, no welding on the body panel. We tubbed my Envoy without messing up the factory paint at all. Tack on the outer edges where you can't see it, then I would run a good bead of seam sealer. Then throw on some dynamat and call it good. I'd get some of this badass gel stuff that keeps the metal cool around your welds too. Can't remember the name, but you can get it from Eastwood. Cheap for what it does. Good luck!

the whole truck is gonnan be bare metal soon so messing up the paint is the least of my worries. But yeah I'll probably just speed grip it I guess.