Ruth,
If you are talking about the inner brace that actually bolts to the rocker panel I have cut the spot welds and removed the brace without much trouble on my 1965 Belvedere. I needed to patch rust holes in both the fender and reinforcement. You might be able to straighten the fender with the brace removed and replace it with the one from your good fender.
Mike LeFevre
On Oct 29, 2011, Ruth Gordon <kpmvn4wrd@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
--Thanks to all for responding. I'm working with Picasa to get set up to send pics... My issue is that the inside fender vertical brace
has been hit apparently from the bottom as if whoever ran over something and pushed the bottom by where the fender bolts on upward. This is causing misalignment also on fender where trim holes are where fender meets the door. It looks funky regarding trim pieces meeting and being straight visually. The brace is so rigid we can't get it to move plus the fender skin has been tweaked and beat on at the bottom where it bolts. I do have a polara fender to use or section that is not tweaked at the brace but it has other repairs needed in front of the wheel well.... I'm thinking about horizontally cutting the polara fender behind the wheel well and sectioning it onto the one on the car now. Don't know if that is reasonable thing to do and scary to start cutting up both fenders I have to work with if chaos happens! Thanks, Ruth
On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 3:56 PM, Kevin Merkley <krmerkle@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I have done the repair to the bottom of the front fenders on my 64 440
and my wife's 64 Polara 500 ragtop and it is not hard but does require
some adjusting of the piece. Blends well with the original and only
the place where the bolt goes through the fender into the splash
shield needed real tweeking.
K.
> From: D J <djohn14...@xxxxxxxxx>
On Oct 29, 10:09 am, george smith <bt...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> My guess would be the "dog leg" at the the bottom. My body man told me it would be cheaper to find better fenders as repairing mine would exceed that. Just depends on your budget cause it isn't cheap whatever way you go.
>
> George
>
> To: "1962to1965mopars@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <1962to1965mopars@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> From: Ruth Gordon <kpmvn4...@xxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, October 29, 2011 3:50 AM
> Subject: Re: 64 Polara fender repair question
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> Damn your up early? Hard to do(was for me) and a lot of grinding. How much are you cutting out and what?
>
> DJ
>
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> Hi guys. I am considering sectioning in repair piece and would like someone who has done cutting and welding to give me an opinion. Please PM me so I can send pics. Thanks, Ruth. --
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