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I suck at body work...i dont know wat the heck im doing! I have this big dent in the rear side of the bed. banged some of it out. Used that tool were you drill a hole in the bedside then pull it out with i have no idea wat its called. my god i put bondo. Its sad cause after i put the bondo to cover the holes,i then sanded it down and put some flat black. Its horrible lookin cause you can see where the bondo is. I am a true amateur. Or is it nub. ...and the truck bedside is still dinged up. GGGGrrrrr!!!

The tool you used is called a slide hammer. The usual procedure to fix a dent is:
- straighten metal as close as possible
- sand the surface w/ 80 grit to bare unrusted metal
- Apply bondo so that extends well beyond repair
- Sand the bondo flat with a long board sander
- If surface is still not flat knock down high spots and fill low spots w/ more bondo and sand again
- Prime repair area
- Sand primer and painted surface w/ 220 or finer paper
- Top coat with paint

Thank you cujo. I will try these steps out. Ill let you know how it comes out.

We all stink at first. The good news is that you can just keep after it until you get it right. Sometimes, you just have to walk away for a few days and tackle it again.

One thing to remember is that the texture of body filler is different from metal. If you don't want to see the body filler, you'll have to sand it with 600+ grit. Even if everything is perfectly smooth, you still may see the body filler due to textural differences unless you are patient enough to sand (and sand and sand and sand) with the fine grits.

Good luck!

Thank you kim. I will do my best

Hey BIGBAMBINO
remember that when you apply bondo, do so in layers, if you were not able to pull the metal as flat as possible like cujo8 says. that way the layers are throughly dry and set up and you don't have one big chunk of bondo in one spot.
i know it not the bolters way but you could have some shop do the rough work and you learn to do the extensive finish work. as kim says we all sucked the first couple times but you can do it.