Re Skin a 68 camaro door

[paulk68]

I assume it is better to re skin a factory door, rather than replace them with repo's this is for a 68 camaro. Am i correct in thinking that? one of them has a few dents and some rust on the lower door. let me know thank you

[srh3trinity]

Interested to hear thoughts about this too

[srt1010]

That's what my body guy with 40 + years experience told me, so we re skinned both of mine. We had to do a little metal work on one of the door frames, but again he said that was better than buying new doors. I bought AMD skins and they were very good quality and fit well. I had also heard and seen too many horror stories of the remanufactured full doors not fitting well.

[69-nova]

once the door is re skinned what do you do to the inside of the door to prevent rust. because i made patches for the bottom of my door and dont know what i should do to kill existing rust and prevent it from coming back. and yes reskinning a door is better than buying a repo door. the repo doors usually fit like crap as for your door already fits good. hope that helps and hope somone can help me lol Jeff

[Denvervet]

I soaked the lower portion of my door ...especially the seams... in a homemade vat with evaporust. It takes about 24 hrs or more and some replenishing depending upon the amount of rust. After a thorough rinsing and drying then mixed up epoxy primer and sprayed inside doors as well as running a little into the bottom seams and letting it flow into the front and back seam areas where you can really spray. After a good curing I ran some fusor self leveling seam sealer onto that bottom seam. Overkill but don't want it coming back or sweating it every time it rains.
Before any of that you want to get as much rust out physically....ie roloc discs, sand paper, etc.

[chops101]

I re-skinned both my doors. It is not hard.

I have a small sandblaster so that helped clean up the shells, but Ospho would work well also.
After cleaning rust out, prime with an epoxy 2k primer.
HF sells a nifty door skin hammer that works great .
I used a dolly placed in a leather welding glove to keep from denting the skin using a hammer on technique.

It is important to get the skin aligned properly on the shell with a few weld tacks, before going at it all around...i.e. weld a few tacks, hang door and check for twist/alignment/gaps.