[Essex_29]

Gotta stay motivated, sammons.
Finally the rear fenders are done.
I welded a bunch of pinholes, ground and hammered and dollied.
I took the fenders off the car and ground things more, as good as I could, hammered more, then
 painted red primer as a guide coat and block sanded the fenders, hammering from the
inside and the outside, sanded more.
Ooff, it looks so much easier when they do it on youtube.
When I felt I had done what I could, I slip rolled  1/8" by 3/4" flatbar to hold the inside fender
edges tight to the wheel opening, drilled holes for the screws and mounted it all back
to the body.



There's still some red on the fenders, and of course I didn't get it all smooth, but an
undisclosed amount of filler will help, I'm sure.
Now I'm ready to get on with the front fenders.

I took a pic of some left over pieces of old and new fender edges.
The original has a wire, around which the fender lip is rolled. My new ones are just a
1/4" round bar welded to the fender lip. The result looks almost factory.

[TFoch]

Sounds like progress!

[sammons]

Looking good man! It's worth the extra time to be happy with it. Lip bead looks great, i aways used #9 clothes line wire in the same way on my lips after fighting trying to roll the metal around it.

[Essex_29]

Thank you TFoch and sammons, for your positive feedback!
I had a bit of a lazy couple weeks here, turning 60 about then days ago, having a small
coffee and cake party for a few friends, then generally being lazy for a while.

I  got myself dragged to the garage in the last couple weekends, and got a litte
something done.

A friend came with the brilliant idea to hang the front fenders off the front spring towers.
I cut out this oddity from a 3/8" thick plate. Two of  the bolts are through holes, the
third, outermost bolt is welded to the tower.



I made a slim fender mount and put it right over the top of he wheel, since it's least in
the way there, where the wheel sits when it's pointed straight ahead. It's fully welded
at this time, and the whole fender feels fairly sturdy.



The fender was fastened to the new fender brace with a sheet metal screw to keep it
lengthwise in situ, while it was jigged up and the rear end of the fender was cut off
and a new fender to runningboard mount was made from angle iron, bolted the the
runningboard, and tacked to the fender.



I made the part that effectively widens the fender and mounts against the apron today,
it has a flange against the apron and it will be mounted with 1/4" UNC bolts and nuts.
The result is that the fender is moved out from the apron about 1-1/2" compared to stock.

[sammons]

Great idea for the fender hanger and mount👍

Looking good and more progress🙂

[Essex_29]

Thank you sammons.

The fender was flattned and in a pretty sorry state, and I wanted it to look a bit deeper than it did so
more fender edges to make.
I made a few versions before I liked the look. Then I beadrolled and welded on the 1/4" round bar to
the edge. Tried in its place here, it looks like it might fit.



After cutting the edge old edge off the fender to be able to work with the new part I cut away most
 of the surplus material and tacked the new edge to the fender. 



It looks like this might work okay. I'll tack in the inner fenderlip too, then it's time to check, again, that the
wheel still has ample room to steer and move.
I also drew some stainless parts in CAD to frame the header pipes where they go down through
the fender. Very time consuming to draw, when you do it just on occation and never really got
used to it.

[Essex_29]

Inner fender edge coming along pretty nicely now too.
That 1/4? round bar is a chore to bend, but the result
is worth it.
Someone who hasn?t been working on these old cars
Probably can?t imagine how not straight the shapes on
them are. The fender lip had to be bent all kinds of
ways to look somewhat right.

[TFoch]

Wow that is looking great!

[sammons]

Someone who hasn?t been working on these old cars
Probably can?t imagine how not straight the shapes on
them are.

^^^^^^Thats a fact!

Looking really good there Essex👍

[Essex_29]

Thank you TFoch and sammons.
It turns out working on these front fenders involves plenty of hours per square foot of sheet metal.
The innner fender lip seems to be coming okay. We'll see how it turns out, the right hand side fender
will have to look similar to the left one, there might be some adjustments to do when that time comes.



I had cut the back end of the new fender lip some 3/8" too short, I made a new pece and cut out
what I needed, then welded and ground.



The fender back on the car, I started working on the fender to apron transition. It took me some
time to get some kind of workable idea to make this transition, it has to be  fairly neat and easy
to make and also it has to be possible to take the fenders off the car.
Baby steps, this is a start, but at least I have a plan.



This sheetmetal part  that kind of frames the exhaust primaries as they go down through the fender
will be part of the fender itself. The  wheel can be seen from above here, it's turned left as much as
it goes, and a hump has to be made in the fender to make room for wheel to turn freely.

[sammons]

Comimg along, nice work!

[FATnLOW]

Nice good job

[sixball]

Great work! I have lost track of what sheetmetal changes you have made. I need togo back through the thread.