What did you use to protect after pounding pinch welds?

Donnie · **Posted:** Sat Nov 03, 2007 10:37 pm

With my spacers it rubs slightly on the pinchweld at full lock. I'm gonna pound it tomorrow, I'm trying to think of a more proper fix that just spraying the area with flat black rustoleum after I cut and pound.

toy4everyseason · **Posted:** Sat Nov 03, 2007 10:43 pm

they make this rust fix stuff in a spray can. Goes on clear but when it hits bare metal it drys black. Claims to prevent rust and stop rust that has already started. I have some in my garage at home. Works really well.

jelohead · **Posted:** Sat Nov 03, 2007 10:45 pm

Duplicolor spray on bedliner

Donnie · **Posted:** Sat Nov 03, 2007 10:54 pm

I'm thinking of cutting pieces of some left over big truck mud flaps, some autobody putty, a little sanding, spray the putty black, hmm.

KJ04 · **Posted:** Sun Nov 04, 2007 7:27 am

I used a piece of mud flap and some small self tapping screws to cover mine.

JJsTJ · **Posted:** Sun Nov 04, 2007 10:20 am

Couple coats of rustoleum black followed by a few coats of spray on bedliner coating. It is a few years old now and looks like it could use a touch-up but holding up fine. Of course YMMV in harsher climates w/ snow, rain, salted roads, etc.

0311_DoC · **Posted:** Sun Nov 04, 2007 10:31 am

JJsKJ wrote:

Couple coats of rustoleum black followed by a few coats of spray on bedliner coating. It is a few years old now and looks like it could use a touch-up but holding up fine. Of course YMMV in harsher climates w/ snow, rain, salted roads, etc.

ok im reading this, and I guess its driving me nuts what is YMMV ??? :roll:

JJsTJ · **Posted:** Sun Nov 04, 2007 10:54 am

Your Mileage May Vary - meaning your results might be different.

0311_DoC · **Posted:** Sun Nov 04, 2007 10:58 am

JJsKJ wrote:

Your Mileage May Vary - meaning your results might be different.

ahhh..

thanks

jason thompson · **Posted:** Sun Nov 04, 2007 11:09 am

Donnie wrote:

With my spacers it rubs slightly on the pinchweld at full lock. I'm gonna pound it tomorrow, I'm trying to think of a more proper fix that just spraying the area with flat black rustoleum after I cut and pound.

I cut the plastic so as to make a flap that would lay back down after the pinch was pounded
I then got some 2 part 5 min. epoxy
applied the epoxy lay the flap down and used a self drilling screw to hold flap while epoxy dries
remove both screws and fill holes with more epoxy

USAFCOP · **Posted:** Sun Nov 04, 2007 1:06 pm

I painted with primer, then black, then bedliner. Then I used roofing/flashing cement (roofiing caulk basically in a tube at home depot) and I cut up one of those thin plastic $1 3 ring binders (not the ones with cardboard only plastic) and slid it behind the fender well liner, and glued it with the roofing cement.

tommudd · **Posted:** Sun Nov 04, 2007 8:39 pm

I did mine and well Sean 150s as well and we just cut a V shape over the pinch weld heated it up bent it up, beat the pinch weld down, heated the V shaped piece up and folded it back down over and "melted " everything
together and then sprayed undercoating over it all, plus undercoating on the pinch weld before we covered it back over

Weegie5 · **Posted:** Mon Nov 05, 2007 2:15 am

I also used the DupliColor spray-on bedliner. $8 from PepBoys. Did this job yesterday.

USPLibby · **Joined:** Thu Jul 28, 2005 12:29 am **Posts:** 377

This:

There are lots of other manufacturers that sell the same stuff. Very goo-ey, matches the wheel well and works great.

Libertad · **Posted:** Mon Nov 05, 2007 5:59 pm

I really need to look under my Jeep for once. I have no idea what this "pinch weld" issue is :roll:

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Anyone have a before and after pic?

0311_DoC · **Posted:** Mon Nov 05, 2007 6:04 pm

Libertad wrote:

I really need to look under my Jeep for once. I have no idea what this "pinch weld" issue is :roll:

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Anyone have a before and after pic?

its a lil piece of metal behind the plastic wheel well liners behind your front tires

Joe Jeeper · **Posted:** Mon Nov 05, 2007 11:31 pm

I used rubberized undercoating also. Joe

What did you use to protect after pounding pinch welds?

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