xj9140
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- Location
- Sacramento, CA
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I am sick and tired of my rear hatch flexing all over the place. It's a '91.
Driving down the freeway I can look back and the hatch is moving all over the place. I found some cracks in it too.
My solution involves plasma cutting some ten or twelve gauge sheet. I will first need to make a template out of plywood or something. 4x8 sheet is enough. I wouldn't have a problem adding maybe 50 lbs, but that would be maximum. I should only need to bend it twice. The sheet will be completely stitch welded to the body. Inside and out.
I am still debating
1. Keeping the rear hatch?
2. Thickness of sheet metal?
3. What shape/how big to cut the access holes?
4. Flux core, or should I buy some gas and a regulator?
5. rear window? Slider?