jpmillermatic
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Clean up continues on the DS inner fender area. I cleaned the rust off the mounting area for the inner fender bracket, and unfortunately found another area of rot in the lower back corner....Ill have to repair it from above as there are two crossmembers in the way from below...
DS panel cut to shape and that looks promising. Its nice to know that Ill be working with fresh metal now!...
The big question of my day today, was, Can I replicate this rusted inner fender bracket from a paper template and some old truck bed flooring?...If I get the flat shape right, it should work, right?
Here they are after a bit more shaping of the new piece. I got my shrinker/stretcher out hoping it would do the trick....
In short...no dice!...the bracket has a couple of compound curves to it as it mounts to the underside of the inner fender on one end, and up on the side of the inner fender on the other...all fitting along a curving and sloping inner fender...So, out came the grinder for a pie slice approach...which in the end got me there...but it took the better half of the day to finish it up....
It seems I can replicate brackets if I really have to...but I wish I could go to bracket wizzardry school. (Binky School!)
Gas tank is now painted with satin black, bedliner material and undercoating...that should do it!
not too bad for the day....but that bracket gave me pause.
JP
DS panel cut to shape and that looks promising. Its nice to know that Ill be working with fresh metal now!...
The big question of my day today, was, Can I replicate this rusted inner fender bracket from a paper template and some old truck bed flooring?...If I get the flat shape right, it should work, right?
Here they are after a bit more shaping of the new piece. I got my shrinker/stretcher out hoping it would do the trick....
In short...no dice!...the bracket has a couple of compound curves to it as it mounts to the underside of the inner fender on one end, and up on the side of the inner fender on the other...all fitting along a curving and sloping inner fender...So, out came the grinder for a pie slice approach...which in the end got me there...but it took the better half of the day to finish it up....
It seems I can replicate brackets if I really have to...but I wish I could go to bracket wizzardry school. (Binky School!)
Gas tank is now painted with satin black, bedliner material and undercoating...that should do it!
not too bad for the day....but that bracket gave me pause.
JP