Tuesday, January 5, 2010

Shaving the antenna hole

The first thing I did was remove the antenna and all its internals. I spliced a short cable from the antenna to the rear window defogger. I then found a piece of scrap metal... and cut it to fit over the hole. I used my grinder to clean the paint off the metal, and I then welded the patch panel on. The next step was to cover the area with a paper thin coat of bondo, and sand it smooth. I took advantage of repairing all of the other small nicks and dents on the entire panel while i was at it. Once the panel was ready I sprayed a generous coat of primer. Stay tuned to see how the car turned out.

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