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I am not able to do much right now but I have been crawling downstairs every day and getting up to a table and cleaning and painting the insides of the front fenders. I know that nobody will ever see inside them but I want to know that it won't start to rust or anything. I washed them and then looked for any rusty spots and scrubbed the rusty spots with a wire brush and then put por-15 on those spots. The next day I sand the por-15 real good and then brush paint the inside of the fender. I have both fenders done. Now I will start on the outsides /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/lol.gif They don't need much on the outside, just a bit of bondo, the rest is bare metal. Oh, the time I have wasted on this car. I have it all painted a bright color. Its so much easier to see that way. I am actually beginning to see the light at the end of the tunnel.
 
Since the fenders tend to rust out down low, I always coat them in roofing tar below where you can see them from the engine bay. It can't hurt.
 
Trash gets in there. People don't clean it out. This also affects cooling. The guy that had my midget before me had the body guy fill in the gap between the fender and the body (the arch) and this had filled with wet junk and caused all kinds of rust. I have all mine coated with por-15 or rustoleum or both. Por-15 is like nothing I have ever seen, its so hard you can hardly scratch it with a screw driver.
 
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