Oz Sport Fury
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This will be great to watch as it progresses, anyone know the car or the shop?
70 Fury GT Resto Vid part 1
70 Fury GT Resto Vid part 1
I bought a car once that I knew had quarter panel work done on it but I didn't know until some miles later that some of the lower quarter patch panels were also glued on instead of welded in place with some of the modern bonding agents as used in assembly of the various cab parts on the latest aluminum bodied Ford pickups these days. The seams of those glued in patch panels started giving way over time and I ended up having my body/paint guy do the job right and welded them together. There is no excuse for not welding these older panels in place when the vehicle was never engineered properly for use of glue bonding agents such as in the Ford.
I bought a car once that I knew had quarter panel work done on it but I didn't know until some miles later that some of the lower quarter patch panels were also glued on instead of welded in place with some of the modern bonding agents as used in assembly of the various cab parts on the latest aluminum bodied Ford pickups these days. The seams of those glued in patch panels started giving way over time and I ended up having my body/paint guy do the job right and welded them together. There is no excuse for not welding these older panels in place when the vehicle was never engineered properly for use of glue bonding agents such as in the Ford.
It's not really a question of being engineered for it, because those modern body glues are as strong as a weld when they are correctly used, in the right places. They're sometimes even more strong than a weld, because they cover a more larger surface and protect from rust (in the case of spot welds for example).
I have used the 3M 08115 body panel glue for some parts of my '70 Sport Fury restoration. Of course, you cannot use it for structural panels or pillars, but that's just common sense.