left front fender clearance

[Andy White]

I have a '55 shell on a '68 pan with NOS front wings. When I bolted the body back on I found it is easily possible not to get it 100% straight. After a little adjustment I have identical clearance all round.

[Chris Percival]

Originally posted by Superman
If it's the left front with less clearance then that is the same problem we all seem to have.

I must have been half asleep when I posted that!

Jeza, rolling the arch was very easy. Actually 'rolling' is far too good a word for what I did. I used a thin peice of wood to protect the outside, and used some mole-grips to bend in the edge to make it thinner. I wouldn't do it if you care about your paintwork though!

[Philippe]

I had this problem too, on my 73 standard. I seriously tore up my tire on the way home from the Kelley park show in San Jose (when I lived in the valley) going about 75 on the highway. Each hard bump made the rubbing worse and worse as the inner lip of my fender was pulled further out. When I stopped to check it out I found little pieces of the tire shoulder stuck in the inner fender. good times.

The way I fixed it is I raised it about a half inch, and I had my sister lean against the fender while I tapped the inner fender with a deadblow hammer and then just reached in with my fingers and pulled outward. No more rubbing, but I haven't replaced the tire yet, so when I do, I might have to pull the fender further out.

Oh, and it is an aftermarket fender as well. Brazilian. It was rubbing just behind the peak of the fender opening.

[Jeza]

Thanks Chris

I havn't done anything to the fenders yet- the paint is not an issue as it's falling off in big chunks!! The cars been repainted and the paint shop man actually said "it's had more hit's than the Beatles"!!!

However I have straightened out the rear suspension. The left hand side has had some repair work done to it which by the looks of things required the removal of the torsion bar and it looked as though the panel beater just threw it back together with no regard for the correct preload. Resetting this helped heaps. The car only rubs with 2 people in it now - still on the right hand side BUT it doesn't rub on the left because it hits the bump stop first. The right side is missing the bump stop cause it was all messed up and in my haste I threw it away not realising how usefull it might be. So I'm off to find some appropriate bump stops.

It is a bit of a worry how easily the car can hit these bump stops, so I guess when I can afford flasher suspension I'll have to uprate the spring.

CU
Jeza