Door Skin Removal

[BoyRacer]

I have acquired a 100/6 - 3000 door with some serious dents in the skin in places that I cannot get to from inside the door. I am going to remove the skin. Does anyone that has done this before have any tips on tools or methods specific to these Healey doors?

 

[equiprx]

There are door skin removal tools that work great.
I used my air hammer with the skinning tool.
The trick is getting started without wrecking the outside.

 

[mezy]

If you are removing the skin to replace with a new one, just run around the edge with a grinder, this will allow removal of the fold around and the skin comes off without damaging the inner frame,, I have done hundreds..
if you are looking to remove with the intension of refitting then that will require the inner fold peeling up,, not easy

 

[BoyRacer]

My plan was to remove and then reinstall the same skin. Given the difficulty and the time involved in re-skinning the door I have gone to plan "B". Using a variety of tools as well as removing the horizontal brace inside the door, I am gradually massaging things out.

 

[mezy]

My plan was to remove and then reinstall the same skin. Given the difficulty and the time involved in re-skinning the door I have gone to plan "B". Using a variety of tools as well as removing the horizontal brace inside the door, I am gradually massaging things out.

Try a bit of heat on the dents,
dents create stretch in the metal, if heated they will shrink, lift the dent in the middle and tap lightly around the dent,

 

[Bob_Spidell]

And use a wet rag to cool and shrink the metal after heating. My father and I had some success using this method on a door of our BN2 (some fill still required).

Removing Dents By Shrinking, Not Filling - Rod & Custom Magazine

Check out Removing Dents By Shrinking, Not Filling from Salinas Boys Customs - Rod & Custom Magazine

www.motortrend.com

 

[AUSMHLY]

Have you contacted a local PDR Paintless Dent Removal professional? He maybe able to get to all the areas.