Ute tail gate.

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oz_ek
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Ute tail gate.

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Looking for an inner ute tail gate, previous owner customized this one!
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baby jesus wept
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gpi wrote: Fri Jul 15, 2022 8:35 pmbaby jesus wept
Nice work hey!
This one is actually off an FE/FC, I've had it for years and often look at it and wonder if the inner skin was removed just to slap that bog in the badge mounting holes?
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Maybe lightened for speed Phil?

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Errol62 wrote: Fri Jul 15, 2022 9:45 pm Maybe lightened for speed Phil?

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I had started looking into having some Pullmax tooling made to reproduce the swage lines of the inner skin, that was before most machine shops closed their doors due to Covid.
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oz_ek wrote: Fri Jul 15, 2022 10:07 pm
Errol62 wrote: Fri Jul 15, 2022 9:45 pm Maybe lightened for speed Phil?

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having some Pullmax tooling made to reproduce the swage lines of the inner skin
That right there is your answer , is there a decent metal fab place nearby that could make up a patch piece ????
I started with nothing and still have most of it left.


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Blacky wrote: Sat Jul 16, 2022 10:11 am
oz_ek wrote: Fri Jul 15, 2022 10:07 pm
Errol62 wrote: Fri Jul 15, 2022 9:45 pm Maybe lightened for speed Phil?

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having some Pullmax tooling made to reproduce the swage lines of the inner skin
That right there is your answer , is there a decent metal fab place nearby that could make up a patch piece ????
Had one bloke have a crack at it, but the panel warped too much.....Similar to what can be seen at the 1:35 mark in this clip..... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBdwCQ5l0eE
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try planishing the area first before swaging
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