skining a door
im going to be skining a door on a civic hb. i was wondering if some one could help out,i don't think it well be that hard but just wondering what kind of steps i need to take or any thing would help pics if possible
You can get a skin at a dealer.
First off, check the cost of a new door, sometimes they're not much more that a skin, and the amount of time it may take you to do it may not be worth it, especially if you don't have much experience doing it.
Best way to take the outer skin off would be to lay the door on a stand, and take a 9" grinding disc (24-36 grit) and go around the edges until you cut through the outer most lip. Just don't cut too much off, you wanna keep as much of the inner door panel lip.
There's probably a few spot welds on the top edge of the door, by the mirror part and by the top of the back edge of the door. You can grind those off with a cut off tool.
Cut the seam sealer away from the side impact beam that's glued to the door skin.
On most doors, that's really all that holds the skin on.
Use a hammer and chisel and go around the edge of the door, that you ran the grinder around, to split the skin from the door. Don't use an air chisel, it'll expletive up the door and create more work for you.
You should be able to remove the skin at this point.
Clean up all the seam sealer off the inner door panel once you have the skin off.
Hammer and dolly the door edge straight before laying the new skin on.
Be sure to weld the skin where the factory welds were. Those can be done after you hammer and dolly the door skin edge around the whole door.
with the door laying on a stand and the door skin laying on top, hammer upward with the dolly on top of the door panel (very light pressure). If you lay the skin face down, then the door on top, and hammer it with the dolly on the underside, you'll dent the **** out of it.
When doing that, you wanna do it in 3 steps at least. don't try and hammer the edge around the door in one shot, or you'll kink the outside of the door and you'll be bondoing the whole edge.
Take your time and gradually rolling the edge over, meaning, hammer and dolly the edge roughly 30 degrees all around first, then 60 degrees, and finally 90.
It takes a while, but it'll pay off when you don't have half a door of bondo.
Sand the folded edge of the door skin where the factory seam sealer was, as the primer more than likely cracked from the hammering. clean it off and seam seal it.
A good way to make it look factory is to tape off where you don't want the seam sealer to go, so if it over flows, it'll sit on the masking tape, and you can peel the tape off (BEFORE the seam sealer drys) and it'll leave a nice looking bead of seam sealer in between the two pieces of tape.
I kinda suck at explaining **** with out pics, so if you have any questions as to wtf I'm talking about, let me know, and I'll try and explain it with some pics.
Hope this helps.
First off, check the cost of a new door, sometimes they're not much more that a skin, and the amount of time it may take you to do it may not be worth it, especially if you don't have much experience doing it.
Best way to take the outer skin off would be to lay the door on a stand, and take a 9" grinding disc (24-36 grit) and go around the edges until you cut through the outer most lip. Just don't cut too much off, you wanna keep as much of the inner door panel lip.
There's probably a few spot welds on the top edge of the door, by the mirror part and by the top of the back edge of the door. You can grind those off with a cut off tool.
Cut the seam sealer away from the side impact beam that's glued to the door skin.
On most doors, that's really all that holds the skin on.
Use a hammer and chisel and go around the edge of the door, that you ran the grinder around, to split the skin from the door. Don't use an air chisel, it'll expletive up the door and create more work for you.
You should be able to remove the skin at this point.
Clean up all the seam sealer off the inner door panel once you have the skin off.
Hammer and dolly the door edge straight before laying the new skin on.
Be sure to weld the skin where the factory welds were. Those can be done after you hammer and dolly the door skin edge around the whole door.
with the door laying on a stand and the door skin laying on top, hammer upward with the dolly on top of the door panel (very light pressure). If you lay the skin face down, then the door on top, and hammer it with the dolly on the underside, you'll dent the **** out of it.
When doing that, you wanna do it in 3 steps at least. don't try and hammer the edge around the door in one shot, or you'll kink the outside of the door and you'll be bondoing the whole edge.
Take your time and gradually rolling the edge over, meaning, hammer and dolly the edge roughly 30 degrees all around first, then 60 degrees, and finally 90.
It takes a while, but it'll pay off when you don't have half a door of bondo.
Sand the folded edge of the door skin where the factory seam sealer was, as the primer more than likely cracked from the hammering. clean it off and seam seal it.
A good way to make it look factory is to tape off where you don't want the seam sealer to go, so if it over flows, it'll sit on the masking tape, and you can peel the tape off (BEFORE the seam sealer drys) and it'll leave a nice looking bead of seam sealer in between the two pieces of tape.
I kinda suck at explaining **** with out pics, so if you have any questions as to wtf I'm talking about, let me know, and I'll try and explain it with some pics.
Hope this helps.
I did a crx one not too long ago. I did it how a body shop guy told me to do it. What I did was grind all around the edge. Don't go too far, just enough to where its almost at the inner door skin part. By then the glue should be hot from the grinding and just remove the old skin.
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