Lin,
That may have been me. While assembling my BJ8 five years ago, it became
apparent that those fasteners were going to be a real pain. I welded a
short length of steel strap to the bolts and inserted them in the fender
flange. May have taped them in place (don't recall). Once the fender was
in place I carefully installed washers and nuts. I did not have to try
to hold the bolt with a wrench since the strap prevented it from turning
while tightening the nuts. Worked like a charm and it is completely
hidden. Would I do it again? Absolutely! There are a multitude of
knuckle busting, nearly impossible, swear word producing tasks and this
was was one of them.
Have fun, ya hear,
Al Schultz
67BJ8
linwood rose wrote:
> Sometime in the last five years I recall reading a suggestion to deal
> with the
> difficulty of accessing that awkward third bolt on the right hand
> fender. As I
> recall, the person offered that if you place the fender nut on the
> shroud rather
> than the fender at that location, you can put that bolt in from the
> fender side
> rather than having to reach around the cooling hose on the engine side.
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