front fender removal

[rumb]

I practiced today on the scrap car removing a front fender. The instructions say to heat the inside seam with a 900 degree blow gun, which works quite well to seperate that part. What they dont mention is that the undercoating under the fender is what really holds it in place.  I used a burr cutter on my air die grinder and cut out the heavy undercoating along the seam.  Then it pulled of fairly easily.   If you are bending any metal out of shape, you have not remove enough in the right places.

Anyone need a front fender with a rusted bottom edge?  could be patched fairly easy.

[nathan]

strange sometimes Rum, sometimes they come off easy with heat gun only, others needs heat gun and blade cutter.  they can be a real PITA!

[daantjie]

What do you guys think was the reasoning behind this. Just typical German overenginering?

[rumb]

I imagine back in the day the undercoat was sprayed by hand-not robot, so that upper edge could receive a lot or a little undercoating.

Also if there was a repair job it could have received a lot more to reseal the edge.