Saturday 15 October 2011

Rear Wheel Arch Tub

We've been working on the rear wheel arch tub now that the rear 1/4 panel has been taken off. We can easily get to the wheel arch and carry out the repairs necessary.

The lower horizontal support piece has been put into place now (we will be listing these support pieces for sale on our website soon). There are more of these to go higher up once the 'C' post as been repaired.

Work in progress: This is the bottom front leading edge of the inner rear wheel arch. This still needs a lot more work to get it correct. Note that the Barndoor ones are completely smooth and only later vans have the 2 ribbed pieces in them.

The lower curved edge of the wheel arch tub meets perfectly with the inner sill. The inner sill is then spot welded to this leading edge (we took the positions for the spot welds off the old panel before it was cut out)

From the 'inside' of the wheel tub, you can see the two panels now in place - again there is more 'tidying' up to do to make this look perfect. The outer radius curve gives you the curve for the complete outer panel and we have trial fitted this too to make sure all the angles and curves are correct.

From the inside looking towards the rear of the wheel tub, you can see the repair piece we have let into the end of the arch and the finishing piece (or mudflap) that attaches to this. Again, we took the spot weld positions from the old panels before they were cut out.

We supply all these small repair panels for the rear arches - click here

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