Making A Start:
After a lot of other distractions recently, I finally got a chance to do some car work today.
Although technically I actually started with the traditional tidying up of the Summer House.
Next I used the
Mark Evan's trick to find the centre of my wheel arch template.
Before drilling a "peep" hole.
Next I roughly marked up a "cut" line around the existing passenger side arch opening.
Before cutting the whole thing out.
The section I removed keeps the "return" lip.
Although I did trim this lip a bit where parts of the original moulding lip were still there.
Note:
The remaining arch section is supported at one side by this small "bridge".
And the boot floor panelling on the other side.
( Which still needs to be finished off, tidied up and painted. )
Next I marked up a few fixing holes on the template.
So that when the centre was lined up...
( The flash makes it look off centre. )
The template could be zip tied to the wheel spokes.
( I just temporarily used two ties for this next stage. )
As I needed to mark up another section of the remaining arch opening to be cut off.
The next step will be to alter the original arch lip to make it as round as possible.
Only after that has been done will it be fixed back into position, something like this.
I will use brackets to hold the two sections together, remove the wheel and fibreglass it from behind, before healing the wound on the sunny side.
Obviously this is easier said than done, so I will take my time to line it all up as well as I can.
Even if I am a few mm out from a perfectly round arch, it will still be miles better than what I started with.
But that was all I had time for today, so until next time, take care, Paul.
