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Offline bb71challenger

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How hard to change tail panels?
« on: November 20, 2006 - 06:02:06 PM »
I have a 71 Challenger that when I bought it had 70 taillights. I changed them out but someone had butchered the hell out of the original 71 tail panel. I have a parts car with a good tail panel and I want to change the panels out before I get my car painted. There looks to be a ton of spot welds  :pullinghair: Is it a straight forward job to change out the panels? I have access to a drill bit that is for spot welds and I have a small mig welder, will that be all I need? Thanks for any input.  :bigsmile:
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Offline moparclown

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Re: How hard to change tail panels?
« Reply #1 on: November 20, 2006 - 06:26:32 PM »
You got it----Lotsa spot welds and take your time,remove the seam sealer inside the trunk pan along the tailpanel.Thought I had a pic of mine before and after but mine almost fell out due to rust.

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Re: How hard to change tail panels?
« Reply #2 on: November 20, 2006 - 07:24:47 PM »
Was one of the more pleasent metal jobs I did, lots of spot welds, i ended up cutting up the old one for easier access, it was shot anyway.
don't have any shots of the actual drilling or weldind, sorry.Rich

Offline bb71challenger

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Re: How hard to change tail panels?
« Reply #3 on: November 20, 2006 - 07:38:47 PM »
Cool, thanks for the input guys! I was considering just leaving it since you cannot see it behind the taillights but I would know it is there and I finally found a tailpanel so I will change it out.
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