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Old 05-16-2020, 06:10 PM   #79 (permalink)
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Yes I could do that, I should have room to work anyway. I would have to pick equidistant points from the center-line. There is actually an "inner" quarter panel, that i believe is vertical, I could even leave that partially intact to act as a hinge. I attached a few representative shots of the sheet metal construction of the area. The side panel has sheet metal formed "tubes" to give it its strength. The roof and floor are sheet metal with stamped ribs going front to back reinforced with hat channels going across. Severing it and rewelding it right at the side wall to roof/floor seams would intuitively seem the most straightforward way to approach this.
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