I am looking for piece of a front fender for a 1935 or 36 Ford front fender. Mine is cracked in the traditional place (top center) and would be easy to repair if it had not been badly brazed (lots of br***, poor quality m***ive repair. I need about a 6" wide section of the arch. I can modify it to fit. If anyone has a pretty much junk fender that has a small decent section of wheel well I would appreciate it.
Hey, You may well just want to build your own patch panels for this repair. Of the five '36 fenders I have , none have what I'd call a good arch in that area of the fender. I'd bend some emt tubing to that arch's shape, cut , fill with sand and cap the ends off. Next I'd cut a piece of 19 gauge C.R.S. big enought to cover your repair area, and form the crs around the emt form with a semi-crowned hammer. Trim the panel to fit your damaged area and weld it into place. There isn't alot of shape in that area of the fender, nothing that anyone with medium metalshaping skill shouldn't be able to handle. Even if you had a patch panel from a s**** fender, the amount of hammerwelding necessary to get a good fit up and use little or no filler in the repair won't save you much time over making your own patch panel. There was a great TECH article a week or two back on fender arches on '36 Ford fenders you may wanna look up, great photos and how to, as well. Good Luck. " Meanwhyle, back aboard The Tainted Pork"
Here's one I did for a customer, only difference from the above post is I used 9/16" solid steel rod. I tacked the rod to what would become the outside of the fender , hammering over to form the radius-ed lip. Make oversize and trim to fit after that. Or ship it to me and I will do it for you . Tradrod (Steve)
Tradrod/Steve, That's a good lookin repair, did you metalfinish it complete? " Humpty Dumpty was pushed "
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