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Old Feb 16, 2006 | 02:29 PM
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What would one call the black rubber?/Fiber?/Plastic? cover, attached to the inner fender/front wheel well that covers the upper ball joint/top shock nut/shaft/support??? Both sides...like a spalsh guard type of thingy...
Mine are both shot. and now have been removed to the garbage...was looking in the Year One Catalog....nothing looked familiar....or where to look, what section???
Attempting to start the resoration of the engine compartment....really, I am, I'm attempting....
Thanks....
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Old Feb 16, 2006 | 02:36 PM
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I think the are called skirts? Try zip or corvette central.
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Old Feb 16, 2006 | 02:41 PM
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Yep, they are called skirts. Go to zip website under c3 and hit body and fiberglass section, they will be under that as skirts and splash shield's.
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Old Feb 16, 2006 | 03:07 PM
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Dunno if those guys are right, maybe you mean the A-arm dust shields, which are called exactly that, "A-arm dust shields".

Zip/Ecklers/CC, etc....PM me if you want exact part #s from one of those guys, don't want to post it in here in case it's not allowed.


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Old Feb 16, 2006 | 03:21 PM
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I figured they were just splash guards...
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Old Feb 17, 2006 | 05:20 AM
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Originally Posted by Star79
Dunno if those guys are right, maybe you mean the A-arm dust shields, which are called exactly that, "A-arm dust shields".

Zip/Ecklers/CC, etc....PM me if you want exact part #s from one of those guys, don't want to post it in here in case it's not allowed.

These you've showed are a very close facsimilie of what I pulled off....of course mine were beat beyond recognition, cracked and broken, I expect they've been on there since it rolled thru assembly in 1976...as far as "A-arm", what is under this shield is a grease fitting (I assume upper ball joint) and the top of the shock on this arm, are we talking about the same thing/place??
You can put the part numbers here if you want, it's done all the time...
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Old Feb 17, 2006 | 05:27 AM
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OK...found 'em on Eckler's site...

http://www.ecklers.com/product.asp?p...dept%5Fid=1433

That's gotta be them, even has the plastic push pins...
Thanks for the help, guys!
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