How to repair plastic bodywork on Kubota BX24

[TripleR]

When we repair things in the body shop, we glue the underside with epoxy, and fiberglass cloth. Then, V out the crack on the top side, and glue it with the epoxy, sand, prime it, and paint. No stitching necessary.

The glue we use, is pretty much the same stuff as in these fuel tank repair kits.

Way back when, I actually used the fuel tank repair kits for years, before they made materials for us to do these repairs with.

We have to be careful about the repairs we do, shrinking up in the sun. Whatever we use to "sew it up" would eventually show, due to expansion and contraction of unlike materials. If you are not worried about that, you could also glue sheet metal, to the underside, and put some pop rivets through it all.

He's done that as well, I can't do that sort of thing, but he use to own his own shop and my son in law owns a body shop, so my understanding of the whole process. I believe the stitching, believe he used metal rather than zip ties, was needed due to the type of damage, see post #4 I think: http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/owning-operating/302353-brush-guard-cab-tractor.html?highlight=

 

[Stanley Obal]

Hi I have a BX2360 which I repaired with super glue and baking soda as a accelerator. Super glue by itself will not work! First from the backside use a rotary tool like Dremel. Cut a V-shape for filling and outward roughing. Bind together from the front with tape I suggest duct tape for strength. Now turn upside down to put super glue in the gap. Put some super glue in the crack not too much. Spoon some baking soda on top. This causes a chemical reaction and get very HOT, finger caution. Clear baking soda and repeat. You can repeat as needed this causes a build. Now you can trim and grind. Repeat as needed. I use gorilla glue it痴 not runey. This method quick.

...........Stan