Restoring Fiberglas Wheelpants

On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 18:54:46 -0500, " jls"
wrote:

New at this am I so how about a little advice here? First of all I have
already washed one of the two wheelpants and it was filthy with oil, grease,
5606, rottweiler pi**, and ramp dreck, so the washing took a long hour
scrubbing and rinsing. I'm thinking that when the sanding and paint
removal begins it will need to be upside down on a pedestal, like maybe a
3-legged stake skewered into expanding foam which has been shot into and
filled the hollow wheel well.

I agree that the wheelpant will need to be held fixed during the
sanding. Instead of the foam idea - could you make a fixture that
attaches to the mounts of the wheelpant? For example, the wheelpants
on my Cherokee 180 are attached by 1 bolt on the outside and 3 bolts
on the inside.

The drawback would be that the bolt heads/washers would need to be
removed to sand underneath their location.

-Nathan