This will help me out when I decide to remove my right rear fender to go get it fixed.

Thanks

 

Great guide! I am looking to replace my Arial with a small fixed one and will be of great help getting the right one off.


It's more fun when I do it myself.

 

oops, sent it twice

 

Great write-up! I would just like to add that the 3 spot welds drilled out, in my case, were just snaps that I popped apart. It's probably better to remove the two screws under the top.

 

I removed my rear fender today using Bus-Driver's info above.
I hope these pictures will help somebody else. I didn't realize that I shouldn't have drilled off the three rivets. I found the two hidden bolts later!#%
Tips:
I'd not recommend drilling off the rivets. I bent up the flanges a little bit horsing around to get them free. Then I had to re-weld the bracket back to the fender flange.
The star-bolts in the door jamb gave me trouble. One of them stripped!@# I eventually had to cut a flat slot, and use an impact driver to get it loose. Probably should have soaked them with PB blaster.
The gas-door latch cable does not require tools to remove. Just turn the housing 1/4 while you hold the other side by the gas cap. But it does have a stubborn catch!

 

That was my experience Cyclehead. I was able to pop the flange off but think it may be difficult to pop it back on later. I believe they aren't actually rivets or spot welds but a type of crimp. People probably drilled them out thinking they were spot welds or because they weren't aware of the two hidden screws.You did a beautiful job with the pictures and captions.

 

Roughly how long it takes to do this?

 

It took me about three hours to jack the car and remove the front bumper cover, frunk lid, LH front fender and LH rear fender. Rear fender took the longest, maybe a good hour of fighting it - between the rivets, the gas door cable, the stripped doorjamb screw head, disassembling some of the ragtop linkage, and cleaning up the two pounds of dirt that came pouring out of the rear wheel well.

 

and cleaning up the two pounds of dirt that came pouring out of the rear wheel well.

That's one way to lighten up the car; should move quicker now; maybe take a couple pounds out of the other fender? Is that from off-roading it?
Thanks again for the work you did and of course for the work busdriver did. I won't have to put it memory this way for the next time I have to take the fender off.

 

lol!, I put the pics in the wrong thread, sorry!

 

I made a show-n-tell video with a few more tips about removing the rear quarter panel.

 

video set on private. can you make it public?

also what material are the quarter panels made out of?

 

the rear quarter panels are metal. Great write-up btw.