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#1032025 05/29/2014 5:11 PM
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Any repair panels for rear burb fenders avail.??

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None that I'm aware of. Depending on where it is damaged you could try to piece in a repair panel from a junked fender (long shot). This is what I'm going to do.

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I made my own patch panels. How bad are your fenders? What areas need repair?

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I guess kind of a usual spot--at the rear bottom corners.

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I fabbed that piece from scratch. I only did one side, so when I do the other side , I'll post step by step pics. It only took an hour and I wasn't busting my but to make it. Took my time. Hammer , dolly and cut off wheel and some scrap steel. I'll check the gauge.

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looking ahead to see what you did. That's not something I have a great deal of experience in so seeing someone else's work will be great and learn from it.

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Did the same thing...fashioned my own piece. My part was missing completely...it was about 4 inches of the curve going into the tire and part of the wing at the bottom. Formed the curve piece around a piece of half inch solid steel, lots of tapping, a little stretching, some shrinking and walla! It goes down to the brace bolt hold.

Looking at it...you would not even blink...you would notice a little if you look from inside...I do metal work to within about a sixteenth(?) of an inch...not a Pro...just retired and have time to try stuff...too many do tons of bondo...I just took out two, one, and one, and one half of inch gum/bondo in a couple of places...the two inches was on the grill.

Try working the metal...I hated it at first...now it is just common sense. I don't get things many times super perfect, but mine is going to be on the road and working lots...so within a couple of months it will have bugs and chips on the front...thats a promise! Oh, the places that I have trouble are super long dents...I don't slap on bondo even for those...which many times might be a sixteenth or quarter inch spread.

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I guess its practice makes perfect--I'll have lots of practice still waiting on the perfect part.


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