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mylesw

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Hello

The botoom of the RH fender on my TR4 has quite a bit of corrosion and several pinholes (see pictures). I suggested to my bodyman to repair this using one of the repair panels avilable from Moss however he seems to think this would be difficult to do. Has anyone done this and how easy was it to do? Also, this is a TR4A fender and I therefore need to have the holes filled in. Has anyone done this and is this an easy repair?

Thanks for your help.

Myles
 

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I can tell you what I did. right or wrong.

Striped it.
Por15 (or eastwood rust encapsulator) over the back side.
Laid down a sheet of fiberglass on the back side
filler and glazing to fill the holes.
 
mylesw said:
...quite a bit of corrosion and several pinholes (see pictures)...
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My idea of 'quite a bit of corrosion' would look a lot worse than that. Are you sure it is necessary to replace sheet metal here (maybe it looks much worse from the backside)?
 
The Moss replacement panels - and I love Moss dearly and have had a good experience with them - didn't seem to fit very well.

If the good ideas above won't work for some reason then I'd localize the repair and butt weld in new sheet metal - which requires more skill than I have. OR, you can weld in a repair patch in back of the damage as an overlap weld but that is more prone to recurring rust from what I understand.
 
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