Looking for options on how to finish rear wheel well opening on a Henry J. Thinking on using 1/4 or 3/8 steel rod or 3/8 .035 tubing.
I rolled a radiused bead and pie-cut it to conform to my quarter. Spot welded it on. It didn't stand-off enough to be above the stock side spear so I added 3/8" tubing along the inside edge. .... and now.
Question about using conduit? I know I have seen a lot of old photos of guys using electrical conduit to build custom work. And have thought of using it myself, but today’s conduit is so heavily galvanized. Am I missing something? How do you remove the galvanize or is there non-galvanized conduit? Thanks Ron
On mine I used 1/4 in or maybe it was 5/16 brake line I shaped around my t-bucket tire Taped in on there and started welding, after I blew through the line in the second spot I was wishing I had used solid rod instead of the thin wall tube. Little filler and it all looked good and holding up really well 15 years later. I do like the conduit idea but I couldn't see how I could bend a perfect circle then cut a perfectly straight line around the radius. Plus the fact that the quarter panel shape isn't perfectly flat, so how to shape the conduit to that after you've bent it and cut it. I'm a caveman over here on tools so I just used some brake line. Lol
Just don't breathe the fumes while grinding or welding it, I guess it's toxic (but what ain't). I used conduit to make inner structures on a couple tilt front ends, including the Henry J.
If you don’t want to use conduit (emt) you can get steel dom tubing with about the same wall thickness as conduit. 3/4-inch X 0.049 dom is available from most steel suppliers. And it’s safer to weld on as it’s bare steel.
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