How To Use Aftermarket Patch Panels To Fix Major Rust.1948 GMC Part 4. 

Another great video shown and explained very well. To all the new subscribers, go back through the older videos. There's gold in them if you're interested in fabrication or restoration.

I love your channel. The metal work you do is amazing. Your ability to explain the process makes it easy to understand, not that I will ever be able to come close to your results.

This truck cab is improving so much, your work is very good. I'm a car guy myself and own a 1971 Rover P6. So your resto work is useful to me. I'm afraid though I won't be able to make the opera, living in the UK, it's a bit of a drive to Alberta for a couple of hours at the opera. Good luck though, or as they say "break a leg" 👍😉

Looks great so far. You’re bringing Saskatchewan farmer standards to the next level.

Don't sell yourself short Kyle, you do exceptional work. I consider you a perfectionist like Scott. Thanks for sharing.

When are you going to do the LS swap part of the build? I consider myself a bit of an expert on car building (because I've watched a lot of RU-vid videos about it) and all the really cool cars have an LS motor. I suggest next time you do more research. Congratulations on the opera role.. but I would think that the lead role in "La Miserable" would be better casting. Happy Hanukkah from the Shed.

You can fix the stuff that most of us just walk away from, wind damage to the door jam is a big fix! You have some real skills.

Long time subscriber on Scott's channel and HAPPILY becoming one on yours !!! A retired construction veteran but even with that similar experience on buildings, can only imagine what it's like tearing into the rotten/decayed structure on one of these old relics !!! Your "resurrection" looks awesome so far. Can't wait to see all the follow-ups. I used to have older relatives that never owned a car who would always SLAM the door to the point the car instantly became a inch narrower just to ensure it was "latched" !!! You would need to wear ear protection whenever you gave them a ride ;o) For sure, CONGRAT'S on the opera role.

So awesome that you were picked for the lead role. We can tell that the little guys are so excited for you too!

I think the cab corner replacement production will be every bit as satisfying as the Alfredo Fetuccine rendition of "I can't believe its butter" opera. lol Thank you for the content & keep up the good work.

I am subscribed to both channels, love the old cars and trucks. congrats on your new lead part

You do very nice work, I love your dry sense of humor.

I'm no expert, but to my eye your work easily meets 1948 Saskatchewan farm truck standards. I would argue that you sometimes exceed them.

Good video as always. I learned a couple things I hope you use later on. Been watching Scott lining the doors up on the Rover. Yep, he is a good panel beater! I like your comment that “if someone can tell the truck panel is not 100% GM, they are standing to close to it.” Love that! 1st time I ever heard that one! As to “unsubscribe here and subscribe to Scott’s”, NEVER unsubscribe from here! As for opera, I have to draw the line! Can’t help you there! I would rather dye breathing sanding dust or be blinded by a big flash weld forever. (I hope neither of this happen either, to be honest!)

Cheers to your success at landing a lead role in an opera-I am thoroughly impressed with this accomplishment! Seriously viewers who have yet to subscribe, where can you simultaneously watch an expert body guy, dry humor genius, and an up and coming opera star-press the subscriber button!

As usual, another great video Kyle. I totally appreciate your work an skills, even the humor lol. As well as the way you explain the what's an why's of the work your doing. Always look forward to seeing your next video. Keep up the great content. Totally love the channel. I've picked up a lot of tips an tricks from Fitzees RU-vid channel. Since watching your channel, I've really picked up even more extremely useful tips an tricks for my own projects. I'd like to say... Thank You for sharing your skills with the RU-vid community, especially me. I really appreciate what an how you do what you do Kyle! Keep On Keeping On Brother!!! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

I was fortunate enough to learn the use of body solder (lead) back when I was in high school (mid-latter part of the 1970's)... We also used almost exclusively acrylic lacquer paint. There were RARE occasions when an enamel paint was used, and ever more rare.... Imron. I still use lead on some of my own repairs, but I do weld the seams solid. It's getting almost too costly to use lead any more (along with simply trying to have a good supplier), but I do enjoy using it. Aftermarket patch panels ARE a 'hit and miss' type of deal UNLESS you have a good source (which I'm happy you discovered one in Canada which has provided you with quality panels and great customer service for many years). I'll attempt to spread the news about your operatic lead role. I'm happy you were able to pasta the audition without too much drama. Hopefully my 4 friends will at least be marginally interested. Sadly, I more than likely won't be able to attend as I've been called to an audition myself to play a part in "Get Off My Lawn'.....

i do the same thing with the sealer but without gloves......cost too much........

Again Kyle weld done. I gasped at the gap perfection! Another great example of form, space and vision. Kelly

Sure wish you had done this project about six months ago. I replaced those inner cowl fillers, the ones I bought were absolute junk. Spent many hours remodeling them and they still don't look that good. At least they are out of sight. Thank God for seam sealer.

Looks great. Thanks for all your helpful explanations.

I'd appreciate a video on grinding / welding door edges to create perfect door gaps. I tried doing this but I'm not sure about the orientation of the mig torch with respect to the door edge. A detailed video would help a lot.

E static. just the way I like it. Be well.

Nice. A star is born!🎶🤌🗣️🕺 😂🎵

Passed along the Scott’s Super Trucks information to my son-in-law who is restoring a 1950 GMC one ton. Thanks for the tip! Really enjoying this series on the ‘48.

I watch both channels love body work fabrication welding create and make it fit custom bring back classic back to the road thank you happy holidays peace

I always look forward to your content really interesting I hoping your channel keeps growing. Looking forward to the cab corner it looks an impossible shape 🤫

Kyle: I think you just "revolutionized" the auto restoration industry with your "reversed lead technique"! Do you think you could do the same with rust? It would certainly make my life easier! 😆

Great points on the panels and congrats on the lead role.

Great fun watching nothing is serous in life except for life itself Enjoy watching and wish I lived closer, may be the only thing I could do is pet the cats and watch. I use a paint stick to check the door and fender gap on my build. works great and always have one handy.

Thumbs up! Break a leg...

Watching so many people do the "M

Excellent work on the metal and congrats on the opera gig. I think you need anew ride to reflect your current status, maybe an Alphonso DiCredenza .

The original louvers looked definitely good enough and better than the new ones!

I have been looking for videos on how to do body panel replacement, came out to my shop, hanging out with my 48 chevy 3100 panel truck / 2001 tahoe project, Kicked on the you tube ,and am very impressed with your video/metal craftsman lessons.

Make it Kustom was showing off 1/8" hole tig plug welds where he would drill through both layers of metal and using the hole to penetrate. It simulates a spot welder and makes the bond nice and strong (you need to use more of them like a spot welder) but I would imagine they would be much easier to remove if you needed to like a factory spot weld.

Congratulations, Kyle! Opera's awesome!

Great information brother 👍. You are doing a incredible job on this old truck, starting to come together big time.

Keep fixin that junk, I'll keep watchin.

Nice

Not only do I respect your skills, I enjoy your sense of humor as well. Thanks for the videos.

🤙🤠👍Family FIRST I know I've got a 1952 3/4 ton chevrolet waiting to be worked on.

Awesome you are the man

Great video Kyle Nice Job

Another great job. And, another great video! Congratulations on being selected for the opera.

Very nice explanations and tutor ledge going forward. It makes a lot of sense for expertise versus perfectionism which may not be applicable for the auto/truck. Thank you, Kyle, I'm looking forward to your next episode.

Just my luck, I find a channel that I like, and someone runs off to join the opera. Nice work on the panel replacement. John

Thanks for a great video!

*Really useful stuff, thanks for sharing all these tips (another CWM-er here too)*

HeyKyle, thanks for discussing the methods to approach a door gap. Maybe someday you can show use how to trim a door just for turds and giggles? I have virtually no gap on one door that I would like to improve but that sounds intimidating for a noob. You have a great channel, thanks for taking us along.

Great show as always. Can't wait to see more of the GMC restoration. 👍

can't wait for you to do a rendition of "la dolce vita" while welding this truck together, i am sure it will be worth the wait haha " methodical " is the word that comes to mind piece by piece this truck will live again.....better than when it left the factory....looking great joe

Beautiful

Very impressive manipulation of the lead on the intro to the video. A real master at work. Yes, door and panel gaps on a spaceport are quite important. I would think quite a bit moreso than on a truck cab. Mega congrats on finally landing the lead role in the opera. Not sure if I can make it from NS so will you be selling a video of the production? The cats are super excited, as usual. I may be wrong (I'm told that I usually am) but there seems to be more tips and tricks in this build than in some others. Lots of good content. But no fire. hmmm

This brings back memories, I did the exact repair on a 52 about25 yrs ago. I am no professional and had an absolute horrible time trying to get the hood and panels to line up. Great job 👏

I just found your channel and I really enjoy watching you turn old junk. As you call it into beautiful usable parts to get the classics back on the road. I will one day try to build a old classic into a daily driver. And these videos are really helpful to watch. Thanks for taking the time to do them I really appreciate it.

Спасибо большое автору канала за видео! 👍👍👍✌️✌️✌️

This channel is a hidden gem, can totally get behind the dry sense of humour in a completely deadpan delivery 🤣

Not a big opera fan. Don't mind the music, it's just all the yelling. But if I could, I would pay money to watch and hear the opera, " *_I can't believe its not butter_*. Longtime sub to both of you and Strong's. More than once. ;) Wish there were more like you.

I think what you do goes beyond craftsmanship - as a German used to the metric system I‘d like to ask you - without which system is better blablabla - its obvious that metric is easier to calculate with but there seem to be older craftsmen that state „using inches (Imperial?) system produces more beautiful results“. I thought Canada had adopted metric but I saw you using the quarter inch as the seam gap size to try to achieve. What‘s your take on this?

I hear you on slamming doors on old cars. I have to tell my friends as they get in my old truck “DO NOT SLAM THE DOOR”

One thing I hate in body work drilling spot welds that sh** seems to take for ever.

Awe man. I stumble across this video. I have no more room in my car, truck RU-vid channel addiction so I was going to watch and move on. Then you mention you’re Canadian. Now I must do my duty. Subscribe and catch up on old videos. 🇨🇦 💪

Another outstanding presentation! You do the best job of demonstration and explanation on the Tube.

You would think if someone gets in an old machine like that theyd treat it like a museum piece. Close those doors very gentle. You have a lot of wisdom going on. Thanks for sharing it.

Happy Thanksgiving space cowboy. I laughed at the space Port Buck Rogers for the win

Looks great thanks for the info as well .Very well done

"People are stupid." So you have been listening to your cats. Wise move. They always speak the truth.

be cool to have another set of louvers on drivers side custom one of a kind her the guys say had one just like it lol

When i started out it was hard to under stand why things didnt line up . I thought the manufacture could do no wrong. I made things work but always wondered why my space portal door fit like it did.

May door-slammers of every stripe be damned to eternal fire. Not to mention the upstairs neighbours who wear concrete galoshes.

Whaahoo You and congratulations on getting a leed roll !!! You'll be dangerous !!! Recently I lent a cool Harley to our local theater group for a high school production of the school of Rock.... Thee young adults were instantly in love with it and I wasn't able to make it to the show...... Anyways I realized afterwards I could have charged a dollar to everyone who'd had their Kool selfy taken with it and then retired....oh well next time..... I'm so pleased you got a part you wanted Man !!! 😉🙃😎 NZ

I can't believe it's not butter...... My sides hurt, stop it . Great content and work. Yet again.

Thanks for the parts place for the Chevy truck parts! I’m going to need that!

Come on, Mr. Restyling, you can find a smaller and lower workbench than that.

Congrats on the part. That's awesome. 👍🏆👍

Oh my GOD! the horror . How many people were harmed in the state of Commiefornia when you removed the lead filler?

Excellent work Kyle

Cats, fashion and some rust repair...not bad.

The desire to bring those insanely rusted and trashed old trucks back to life in canada certainly is much different than here in the southeastern part of the US. Buying all of those patch panels and paying someone for the extensive amount of labor to install them(even if you could find a person willing to do it) just doesn't make good practical sense here. You can quite literally find a truck that is already in decent structural condition here in the states for far less than it would cost to pay a person(even doing work on the side) for 2 or 300 hours of labor. 4 years ago i crushed a 49 cab here in virginia that was in much much better shape than the one in the video because no one around here would even pay me 200 dollars for it(not kidding!)....all i can say is: "God Bless all of you in Canada!"

Great work, I love Painting and Restoration, I learn from who ever I can, Great Job. Love the Solid Cab Corners!! Beautiful just as it is. Please no 5 windows

I would say that was a pretty good attempt. another good video. Thanks.

I think you should put a garage door in that empty room and have a place to work on another vehicle

It's a 1948 truck, if the doors open and close and stay closed leave the gap alone. In 1948 perfect gaps weren't something to get weirded out about, sometimes anal is just too much.

Another exciting episode filled with excitement. I had to take a drive in my 49 just to calm down. Lovin this stuff. Can't do it so much myself anymore so I'll watch you do it. These trucks have a lot of parts to 'em so there is a lot you can do with them. Everybody and their dog wants a red 57 chevy convertible but I haven't found anyone that doesn't love and old truck. I remember we would find them in the desert abandoned and free for the taking. Now they are "collected".

is space port installation the same on fords and chevys? asking for a friend...

Hi kyle Great work we have a saying here ruff enough for the bush its a repair that looks good from 10 feet away . Cheers mate🇦🇺

I don't know if you have watched Fitzee's Fabrication but I believe he calls that welding "cut-n-butt".

I watched that episode of cwm but I phased out like when you keep reading a page but wasn’t taking notice, which is a shame because I’ve just finished my shell

It's coming along nicely, Scott will be impressed with your work when it's done 👍

your videos don't disappoint thanks you're a bit too far to travel to watch you in a opera but a musical cats may be

I think your cats were stalking you up until you said you got the alfredo role. They are trying to stick with low carb ;-)

Thanks for showing us the process! It is turning out good!

Johnny Cash one piece at time those cabs at that time they did not have super long hammers. Most of cars with long quarter panels were two piece .

I think your work is great.....way beyond what i would do....I appreciate good work but accept much less. As you get older you dont care as much as you do when your younger. I wish I could have back a few of those years I spent doing perfect work on cars that nobody really cared about after I was done.

As I learn more about old cars the more over restored cars jump out at me as wrong. If they are deliberately done as show cars and made to be better than factory that's fine. But if it's mean to be original then you can definitely over do it. I am learning the wooden frame in cars like my Riley for example were rough as guts. Luckily I can work to that standard! Where's the McLaren, outside still? Oh, perfect example of an over restored car. The 'original' McLaren Austin 7 race car (Bruce's first car) the factory owns. Speaking of opera, have you ever seen Phantom of the Paradise? You could pick up some tips.

Great informative video. I need to do most of that stuff. Mary is very attentive for the whole video waiting for Allen and Poe. Joseph mostly just licks his privates because he can. I ordered enough tickets to fill up my jet and will be looking forward to the show. Thank you for the time.

There has been something missing from your video's of late? But when you opened the video with the removal of lead. It finally came to "light" what's been missing. It's FIRE!!!! Where's the FIRE!!! In your previous videos you were setting everything on fire, including yourself. We want fire! We want fire! Bring back the fire! Thanks for the cool video!

Also, I've picked up a few of your techniques, so thanks

Great to watch. Thanks.