Body question: Side mirrors and rear panels

[subjfd]

Hi,

 

 

First, My car;

 

1993 Subaru Legacy L Wagon

5 speed

 

I am taking care of some rust. Instead of working on my car directly, I am removing the following:

 

1) Front side panels (Easy, 4 bolts)

 

2) Driver's side mirror (electric), and I need help to figure out how to remove it please)

 

3) Rear side panels (Could anyone help me out here as well please , I want to take them off )

 

My plan is the following:

 

Take them inside, sand thoroughly, and where I have holes, cut around the rust, apply a kevlar coating with felt(such as the kind you put on a whitewater canoe for repairs) from the inside, which will bond the 2 sides of the hole, wait until it dries, and then add putty from the outside in order to even out the surface, then sand and prime, sand again, and paint.

 

I think it should do an awesome job, but I need to take off the rear panels and side mirror first.

 

As well, I have rust on top of my windshield, and when it rains, it also rains from the headliner where it meets the glass. I was going to sand to metal, add putty to even it out, prime and paint, then add a strip of kevlar felt from the windshield plastic trim to the metal, then sans prime and paint as well. This week I would take it to a shop and have urethane shot from the inside to seal well. It should take care of the leak. Any comments or suggestions ?

 

Thanks,

 

Cheers

 

JFD

[idosubaru]

the rear panels suck because i believe they aren't bolted on. they have to be cut and rewelded in place. do a search on rear fenders i posted a question awhile back about this, some good info on the site here.

[subjfd]

Well, lucky for me, the rear panels have no holes, just surface rust. So I can work on the car directly. The front ones bothe have a whole of about 2X2....

 

I also removed that rubber moulding in the fenders...humidity trap that they were....oddly enough that's twhere all the rust started. Dumb dumb dumd...

[idosubaru]

it's a good idea to remove the tires and pull back the inner fender lining every year to clean out the crud. mud, leaves, dirt, debris get crammed in there and hold water against the metal. once it rusts that stuff falls out, gets washed away. i've seen inches of stuff packed in there before.

[Andyjo]

wow, i took off my fender and found a snorkle!!

heh.. but yeah.. lots of stuff gets cought up in those plastic crap traps... for some reason i have a perfect 1.5" circular hole in my fender... hmm... cut twice.. measure once? did i get that saying wrong or something?