Mark, have the tree company pay for professional repair of you bus! Don't
mess with the dent until you talk to their insurance company!
-Good luck and keep us posted
Matthew
84 wolfsy
and not a professional tree cutter, but I play on in my backyard.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Gajewski [SMTP:mgajewski@MANVILLERUBBER.COM]
> Sent: Friday, April 09, 1999 7:10 AM
> To:   vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject:      dent pulling
>
> The friendly tree removal "expert" my wife hired accidently landed a big
> branch on my Vanagon :-(  The branch put a good sized dent both below
> and to the rear of the plastic engine vent grille on the back left side
> of the van.  Has anyone had any experience pulling or hammering dents
> from this part of their van?  The grille can obviously be removed but
> that doesn't look like it gives enough room to get a hammer back their.
> Is this accesible from inside the van without ripping apart the liner?
> Also, the dent below the grille goes right across the sharp crease on
> the body work there which looks like it will make pulling/hammering this
> area pretty tricky.  Any advise would be greatly appreciated as long as
> it doesn't involve harming the tree expert.  BTW I have virtually no
> experience with body work and want to stay away from Bondo.
>
> mark
>
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