1952-59 Ford Inner fender rubber

hi I recently took the front end apart and I am repairing some rust on my inner fenders. I had them sand blasted so they are all cleaned up. My question is where can I get new rubber that was originally stapled to the bottom and sides of the inner fenders? Is there another option that everyone is using? Included a picture of some of the rust repair too thanks

 

I don't know of anybody who repops those pieces but you can cut some sheet rubber of appropriate thickness and glue it on with gorilla snot (3M yellow glue) or some other brand. If you can't get sheet rubber you might look in Lowes or Home Depot for cheap rubber door mats you can cut to fit.

 

Carpenters and Macs has it. I replaced mine when I pulled the 6 cylinder out and repainted my engine bay.
http://www.macsautoparts.com/ford_m...Category_Door+and+Body+Weatherstipping+Kits

 

C & G Ford Parts(cgfordparts.com) or WWW.Cl***icAutoparts.com(Obsolete & Cl***ic Auto Parts, Inc.)

 

Also Macs has the staples. a pain to do with them on the car but if there out it wouldn't be to bad.

 

Awesome thanks guys

 

I got my rubber from Dennis Carpenter ~ and as for the staples I threw them in the trash and used pop rivets,so much easier.



I took lots of photo's but it appears I omitted the photos of these pieces of rubber installed. HRP

 

Nice I like the rivet idea.

 

I used the staples but I'm kinda **** about things. It wasn't bad but I had a helper. I predrilled everything as I went. I can understand why someone would rivet them.

 

All I have to say is that old Henry must have had quite a robust stapler to attach the rubber to sheet metal.

 

That would be an interesting topic for the main board...wonder if there is anyone left, posibly on the Hamb, that worked the 50's factories. On the '57 forum, we discussed this several times and even had on gentleman who in fact worked the '57 ***embly line, but he had no idea how it was done. I think I will ask that on the main forum.

 

Great Texas, I'm interested. Probably some air-powered stapler, like a nail gun.

 

I think Ford had special tools made for certain jobs. I recall a customer that worked at Ford gave my old man this big 3/8 air wrench. Looked like a normal air ratchet only way bigger and it only worked in one direction. Also, you had better have a good grip on it because it would just about break your arm if it got away from you. Think I still have somewhere in my "stuff".

 

Anyone have pictures of the rubber installed?

 

Bump, as I'm also interested