My Pinch Weld HammerTime

Note to self, do not wait until it is 90 degrees out with 99.9% humidity. After adding a steel bumper and winch, I developed a very annoying and loud rub on the drivers side. It would scare the crap out of me. Sucked. Anyway, thank god for google, videos and tacomaworld because I really suck at all mechanical related things, which blows in itself. I hammered the pinch weld over and then trimmed as little as possible. The final step was using a heat gun to smoosh the plastic down. Total time was around 2 hours, lots of wasted time doing stuff that did not need to be done, shrug. There are a few guys that out there that answered some stupid ass questions, so thanks..........Now for the passenger side - first thing tomorrow morning........ Thank you @McRib for telling me to use a BFH, but not what that was. LoL, the Harbor Freight guy had a laugh at that.......

You can see where I was rubbing, the plastic already broke off....

Edit --- all trimming and grinding was done with a Dremel.






I remove all those annoying plastic liner clip things. I could kill the engineer that developed them.... Just awful, I even bought a tool off Amazon, it sucked, so I ended up just yanking them out. FYI - the tool came with a couple dozen new plastic clips.....



Hammering top to bottom, I cut slits in order to try to save the clip hole. The bottom is a pain in the ass. I got it flat as possible. I also trimmed the bottom up just a little, trimmed more later after it was all together.



Rubberized undercoating spray paint.




The plastic still stuck out, I did more trimming.




Using a heat gun and a some wood to form the plastic, I smooshed the liner. I used cold water to set the plastic.

 

Oops! Big Fucking Hammer!

Looks good! Nice goop job too!

 

Now you tell me......

 

what did you use to seal it? Looks good...I just rattle canned mine for now.

 

Just 3M undercoat spray paint.....