Now for the tedious part. I took the NOS later style fenders and identified all of the spotwelds on their top braces and front upper brackets. This part would prove to need a little finesse since I planned to cut the spotwelds on the braces from behind to avoid putting any holes in the fender skins. I was only able to use the drill for a few welds on each fender, the rest had to be carefully ground down through the thicker bracket without harming the fender skins
For this I used a 1/2 x 18" belt sander made for cutting spotwelds. I used 40 grit belts on it. Carefully I ground the welds from behind and slowly separated the braces and front brackets with the panel splitter. I did cut a piece out of the top braces where the front bolt holes are to give a little easier access for the seam splitter. These newer braces are getting tossed anyway so I wasn't worried about saving them for anything. Braces came out with no holes in skins. Now I need to clean up the earlier braces and spot weld them into the NOS fenders.
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