Front wheel well, how can I fix this??
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St. Jude Donor '09
Front wheel well, how can I fix this??
Top center of the photo. I discovered this 2 years ago when I rebuilt my front end. There's a 4-5 inch piece of the wheel well missing! Any way to fix this, I think the wheel well is made of plastic?
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Len
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it's fiberglass, but that's a difficult one to fix so it looks like new. Easiest would be to chop a section out of a damaged section from the junkyard or soemthing. The rubber mud flap should also be held in by little plastic push in anchors, not bolts & nuts.
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Hello Jughead,
Taper back the edges of the damged area with sand paper. Place some wax paper/a few layers of masking tape across one side of the damaged area to try to mimic the shape and provide support for some fibermat with resin. Build up the opposite side area with the mat/resin and let cure. After the one side is hard repeat with mat/resin on the other side. Now comes the fun part sand to shape. You can use the epoxy resin with additives to give it more weight to help during the final shaping. I used the West system epoxy resin on my damaged areas. I liked it. What ever route you take your going to have to do some be some fiberglass work. Hope this helps!
Bryan
Taper back the edges of the damged area with sand paper. Place some wax paper/a few layers of masking tape across one side of the damaged area to try to mimic the shape and provide support for some fibermat with resin. Build up the opposite side area with the mat/resin and let cure. After the one side is hard repeat with mat/resin on the other side. Now comes the fun part sand to shape. You can use the epoxy resin with additives to give it more weight to help during the final shaping. I used the West system epoxy resin on my damaged areas. I liked it. What ever route you take your going to have to do some be some fiberglass work. Hope this helps!
Bryan
