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After four years of having my truck torn down, I am now putting it back together. Does anyone know of a fender welt substitute that can be used between the fenders and cab? For example, anything that you can use from Home Depot, Autozone, NAPA Auto, etc.?

I don't mind shelling out money to chevy duty for the welts, but would rather get it locally if possible.

I have never seen anything in your typical auto parts store or home improvement store that would be an appropriate sub for proper welting. After all the effort you have already put in I would suggest getting the welt on order today so you can finish the job correctly. Hope to see pics of the finished truck soon.

Thanks for the advice--it makes sense.

I took a look at the picutes of your '54 Chevy--How did you remove the seat mount for the old bench seat, and what seat's do you have in it now?

Did you use a die cutter to cut it off, or did you just drill out any spot-welds?

I removed the flange with a combination of a cutting torch and a 4.5 inch metal cut-off disc on my grinder. The spot welds were ground out with a grinder disc. I elected not to drill out the spot welds as I did not want to go back and refill the holes.

The seat is a bit of a mystery. I cannot identify what it came from as it was a $40 swap meet special. It seems to work fine but I have had to fabriate new risers for it to get the height where I want it. It sure is a heavy sucker. The max width the AD trucks seem to accept is 55 inches. The G-body monte carlos, cutlasses and the like are good seat donors.

I had some fender welt made at a shoe shop when I was a kid restoring a TR3. He sewed a strip of black nuugahyde around a 1/4 inch nylon rope. It worked quite well!

Went to a local VW parts supplier and bought enough fender welt to do two trucks for $8.00.

what is the name or brand of the fender welt that you bought at the vw shop, olblu49?

The members of the local F--d truck club to which I belong (I have the only Chevy truck in the club) don't usually use fender welting. Instead they put premium clear caulk on the mating surfaces to seal them, tighten the bolts and clean off the excess. Seems to work just fine. They looked upon me with disdain when I used welting on my '56.

56 picup, thats an intersting idea... however, you would think the caulking would crack and break over time with road vibrations and heat/cold. Do you know how their caulking held up?

I went to a volkswagen parts supplier today and bought some fender welting there. I got enough to do my whole truck for $2.49!

This is the same welting thats used on the volkswagen bugs.

check with LMC page 10 item 23, golden state pp 42 item 16-52 or 52C, brothers pp 86, item fw4759B or ?? usually one roll does a whole truck