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Flip two over and you can see that I have already put in the bullet signal base.

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I did grind off the screw you see there it was tacked.



I did basic measurements but there is a sweet spot that the mount sits in where all the edges make contact at just the right angles.

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Pictures are great but they don't show all the steps or tools I use something like this for the sheet metal and it is amazing.
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Very nice job there!  Check your private messages, Terry, have something you might be interested in...

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This fender is ready to be welded I prepped a couple other spots to make this fender a little stronger and clean up a fold in the metal lower lip.


I will pound in the bump after the fender has been welded.
On to fender three this one was given to me from Ron Fisher remember him and his Cola Cola 65 66 colour red beetle build he did the paint and the motor that was fun to watch.

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This fender is a thinner gauge steel that still had one bolt in it that was ripped out of the running board and one bolt hole that was ripped off at the body still it was straight so I am patching it.

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I looked at another fender we will call it four it is the same side drivers rear it is the one that was on my car when I lost my wheel on the inland at 120K racing my brother in laws Duramax truck off the light at Mt. Washington. I would have to say he won I backed off at like 120k just before the wheel flew off and he kept going to like 165k. The fender got folded under the wheel flew into the forest not to be found that day my wife and simply pulled to the side of the road an stopped lucky it was the rear and my car is lowered so it didn't have far to fall.I have not had my wife in the car since.

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This is it it is a good one of the with the dimples on the lip where you bolt to the body OE I think.








This is the one I am going to use for this project.

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Our friend Gord-Twig-Camplug now supplied me with the replacement I have on my green machine now thank you he had a couple extra when he got his latest vw from Frank you guys are great. I will put a tack on the outer lip where it was creased and maybe hit it with a shrinking disk to add some tension as it still is a little floppy we will see after the tack. I used this tool with the scraper on it to remove the underseal and it worked so well came off like I was shearing a sheep that is how it felt not that I have ever sheared a sheep. Finished up with solvent and a brush wiped up with blue shop towels(those things are awesome hey Rob) then Russ's favorite de-greaser then isopropyl alcohol it is done.
This tool
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This is the car that I am aiming the fenders to.

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Fender five is an is one of those heavy dimple fenders it was off my green machine it was changed out after I was side swiped by a work mate back in around 1998.

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Fenders six seven eight and nine are on the car I will show them eventually the fronts are not pretty there is going to be more fenders ten is a good one I will try to dig up the pictures.
Got to some welding today fender one.

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Nice Terry! Byron found one of these useful when doing such fine work.



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I got all the welding done took a few evenings didn't push it get set up do a few welds they are pretty heavy but can't complain.

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I move onto Ron's fender three and did some welding to the fender bolt holes.
thinner metal made it slightly more difficult.


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At this point I was winding up for the night feeling pretty good if you hold a light behind your welds you can see the light shining through the pinholes and you can tack them closed well I was doing that and spotted a couple pins at the bottom edge. That was a mistake I hit a area that wasn't prepped and burnt through in a puff of smoking underseal.