Inner Fender repairs

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Last night we turned our attention to inner fenders. We've got some items
slated to go out for powder coating, and these will get added to the pile.





The front edge that bolts outside the grille is showing remnants of water
retention...








Mountain Dew template





Bead's male die is offset to one side to match the originals.....





Bead roller was set up with a backstop die...








Skateboard wheel and "rolling" wheel used to add radiused ends....











Grabbed a suitable scrap from the pile and used the sander to make a bead
ender tool thingie, used on the treated 6x6 anvil...











Clamped and tacked....








More tonight......

[carls 56 (RIP 11/24/2021)]

thanks for sharing Robert.

[chevynut]

It's just amazing how you fix stuff like that and make it look so easy. I'm going to have to get me one of those skateboard wheels some day. They look like they're pretty handy and I never thought about using it to bend a radius like that. Cool stuff.

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You have to "mash" the upper wheel into the skate board wheel a good bit to get the radius forming to take place, but the SB wheel still has enough give that it doesn't flatten the bead detail..

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Well the Wheeling Machine finally has paint!

Napa Econo-etch primer....



H/K Pavo Purple and Flo Klear. I tried playing with the camera settings to get it to capture the true color, but it just wasn't happening. It may look blue in the pic, but it's about as close to Chrysler's Plum Crazy as you can get without putting a HEMI under the hood..







Here's the actual color...



While I was finishing up the paint on the English Wheel, Kyle stripped the driver's inner fender. This one has the same issues in the front as well as a spot up top where the flange of the fender had some rust issues we previously repaired..





Looks like our same template will work here as well..









And while I was trimming more rust away, Kyle was working on the passenger side learning the fine art of dressing welds...

[chevynut]

I have never felt like I was in tortal control when I use a straight die grinder. The only time I use mine is when I don't want to change tools, or I need to get into a tight spot where the 90 degree grinder won't work. I find that I have a lot more control with the 90 degree die grinder. I have 5 of them, 4 are 90 degree (Ingersol Rand) and one is straight (Harbor Freight). If you have one you might let Kyle try it with the cutoff wheel and see which he feels more comfortable with....just a suggestion

[567chevys]

Robert your ideas and work are world class and very Amazing.


Thanks for posting the stuff on the site.

Sid

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While Kyle was working on dressing some welds this evening, I took some time to planish the weld on the driver's fender eyebrow. Here's the previous.....






It had a noticeable dip throughout the weld seam. Here's the tool used.....

















The eyebrow on the passenger side was planished all by hand, and probably has a couple hours in planishing. The Watervliet planishing hammer made short work of the driver's side, it took all of five minutes time to have it in a comparable state as the passenger side...


Continuing on with more inner fender work, starting on the driver's side....








Back side, full penetration welds.....






Staple holes for seal filled...








Should get both these finished up Saturday morning and mocked up with the battery tray..

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Here's the passenger side with the welds dressed and mocked up to the grille....







While Kyle media blasted the passenger side, I did some finish work on the driver's side. We still had this up at the top to fix...



A replacement was made and marked out on the inner fender..



Took a reference measurement to insure any shrinking effects were properly planished out...



Ice pick works well in marking the cutout pattern...





Trimmed and fitted



Tacked in place...



Rear side





After planishing and dressing the welds, re-checking the reference measurement....





Passenger side complete....





Driver's side complete.....





Next task will be to assemble the battery tray and send off the goodies for powder coating.

[567chevys]

Great work Robert ,

Thanks For sharing it


Sid