I'm doing some extensive rust repair on my car and need to know what gauge sheet metal to buy. I'm repairing the dreaded bin rust, some rust at the back of the right rear fender, and patching the antenna hole.

Basically, I need to know the thickness of:
-Rear wheel wells
-Upper link reinforcement plates
-Floor/trunk metal
-All exterior bodywork

I tried searching, but couldn't find a definitive answer.

 

i could be wrong but 14 or 16 gauge sounds about right for the body panels anyway

 

I think that the sheetmetal for the body work is 1/8"

Other than that i have no clue...

 

i can cut some of these off my parts car to make it a little easier, no rust that i know of at all. if you want some of them just let me know

 

+1 on cutting parts off a rust free car

 

ya only thing it doesn't have is the driver side quarter, already cut that out for my car as well as part of the rear valence.

 

I'm on a tight schedule right now, and can't wait for shipping. (I have to get my car put back together very soon.) Tomorrow I am going to a shop to buy some sheet metal, unless someone tells me otherwise, I'm just going to buy 16,18, and 22 gauge sheets, and maybe some thicker 14 gauge stuff to make the reinforcement plates out of.

This is what I'm working with:

 

Yikes! Why so much rust, where is the car from?

 

I used 16ga for the wheel well areas and 22ga for any exterior body work (like when I filled the antenna hole, and the side marker lights etc.

 

Those are the only spots on the car, the two spots on the front side of the wheel wells are self explanatory, but the one behind the wheel is courtesy of a crappy repair job after the car got hit... and the antenna. They just left the drain tube on the antenna hanging off into the fender, which pissed everywhere every time it rained. This accompanied with inadequate rust protection resulted in a rust hole that exploded on me when I touched it with a screwdriver. Rust does not taste good.

 

I bet it doesn't taste nice, RUST!

 

my wheel wells are that bad so i will be buying a welder soon. let me know how it goes.

 

The passenger side wheel well is fixed now, I'm 1/5th of the way there. BUY WELDABLE PRIMER!

 

any more pics?