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Rear inner fender repair - are you brave enough?

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Brave enough to dig into your inner fenders? LOL.

Anyway, some pics of getting the rear inner fender on the '71 ready for new metal.

No worries, just a little hole.

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After hitting it hard with an electric drill mounted with a wire brush...

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Initial cuts with a large cut off disk, notice a couple quick welds to make sure I didn't lose alignment... (or so I am telling myself)

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Ready for cleaning and new metal...

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Yep, been there did that.



Looking good...
 

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Push the wiring harness out of the way!
 
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Push the wiring harness out of the way!

Picky, picky, picky... LOL.

<span style="font-weight: bold">Good point</span>, I'll make sure it is tied back further away from the work area Jim.
 
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I bought one of these from Eastwood and I have to say it has been a big help. Still lots of trimming needed, but it helps get the shape roughed in more quickly than other ways of cutting the metal.

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More progress, and yes, I know it is good that I still have a day job... <grin>

Pretty darn ugly, but my patch didn't fit as well as I thought so I had to built the metal up in several places.

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