Any of you have experience with replacing inner fender aprons?
01-22-2007, 08:36 PM
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Any of you have experience with replacing inner fender aprons?
Well, my car apparently got into an accident a few years before I got it and it crunched the inner fender aprons. Latemodelrestoration.com just started offering replacement pieces to fix that. Are they welded in, and if so is it a solid weld or spot welded? Also, how hard was it to replace them? I'm getting ready to replace mine as soon as I can find an affordable welder. Also, the strut towers have a hole rusted in the bottom of them and in the pic it kind of looks like that part goes with the inner apron.
Any help figuring some of this out would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
Any help figuring some of this out would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
01-22-2007, 09:19 PM
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RE: Any of you have experience with replacing inner fender aprons?
ORIGINAL: lookin4astang
Well, my car apparently got into an accident a few years before I got it and it crunched the inner fender aprons. Latemodelrestoration.com just started offering replacement pieces to fix that. Are they welded in, and if so is it a solid weld or spot welded? Also, how hard was it to replace them? I'm getting ready to replace mine as soon as I can find an affordable welder. Also, the strut towers have a hole rusted in the bottom of them and in the pic it kind of looks like that part goes with the inner apron.
Any help figuring some of this out would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
Well, my car apparently got into an accident a few years before I got it and it crunched the inner fender aprons. Latemodelrestoration.com just started offering replacement pieces to fix that. Are they welded in, and if so is it a solid weld or spot welded? Also, how hard was it to replace them? I'm getting ready to replace mine as soon as I can find an affordable welder. Also, the strut towers have a hole rusted in the bottom of them and in the pic it kind of looks like that part goes with the inner apron.
Any help figuring some of this out would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
01-22-2007, 10:07 PM
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RE: Any of you have experience with replacing inner fender aprons?
That doesn't come with a shock tower. Your going to have to drill out the spot welds and cut down around the shock tower more then likely. Your are also going to have to pull everything like wiring and more then likely the engine, cross member etc to get good clearance with the welder.
Also I don't see a fender apron for foxes, only sn 95s on there site.
Also I don't see a fender apron for foxes, only sn 95s on there site.
01-22-2007, 11:16 PM
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RE: Any of you have experience with replacing inner fender aprons?
yeah its pretty simple once everythings out the way as long as its not tweaked to bad just a matter of drill out the spot welds and cleaning up the flanges and plug welding the new ones in place an air chisel comes in handy also
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