Gas door

[Jimski]

New to the forum

When I painted the body I made a few mistakes, one being removing the gas door. Thought it would be one less problem - wrong. Now I am re-assembling the car and finding out I do not have anyway of attaching the snapped off screws to hold the door to the body. I have removed a protion of the interior fibreglass suround and see where the screws were and a piece of white plastic(?) holding the bracket to the body. 

Any help on attaching the door - epoxy ? drywall screws ?

[RoyG]

I also broke off the screw/studs that the gas door hinges attach to, but thankfully I realized this was a problem that should be addressed before I finished painting the car.  I ended up drilling out the studs from the outside, then counter sunk the holes, and epoxied in new studs from the outside.  While the epoxy will provide most of the holding, the oversized head being outside the fiberglass will hold a lot better than anything you can just glue to the inside.  For the studs I used machine screws that I ground the heads down thinner on.