jmlcolorado

Well the time has come to repair my dually fender. I have a hole that seems to be growing day by day. It's now large enough to store a small dog inside the fender and thats too big for my likeing .

The hole has taken out the resess for the marker light, the two "valleys" all the way from the botton to the ridge at the top of the fender where it begins to flatten out.

I wanted some sort of mold to base my repair on but i didnt want to form it out of plastic or foam or anything so i uset the drivers side front section on the fender (inside) to make a simple mold to fit on the inside of the passenger side rear section to form up the repair with all the correct lines.

It worked pretty well seeing that the two ARE a little different in size. Exerything else is pretty proportional.

As you can tell the drivers size ALSO has a small hole i need to repair too but at least i get the majority of the hard lines to base the repair off of.

What do you guys think?! Any sudgestions?

jmlcolorado

Now keep in mind this is only a mold! This is atteched in the inside for a base. I will add about four or five layers to the outside tieing it all together and feathering the fiberglass over the origional fender. For all you guys asking about converting a dually to a SRW truck i have also taken a couple photos showing what the DRIVERS side looks like with the fender removed. As you can see you would have to do extencive body work to get the dually bed to look right with Single rear wheels. Hope this helps a bit.

Copenhagenjunkie

I would suggest a flat bed instead of doing all that repair work. A nice black bradford or cm flatbed with skirting and underbed tool boxes .

jmlcolorado

Yeah but then i gotta invest in a bunch of straps to tie everything in the bed down. Rather be able to just toss a bunch of crap in the bed and go.

zulusafari

I have thought the same thing! The flatbed could be cool with the right boxes and a nice headache rack, with a hidden-rail fiver hitch and turnover ball, but I need box sides!!

jimk403

Good idea for repairing those fenders. Someday I will be fixing mine, they're just cracked now.

jmlcolorado

Ill tell ya what man, you better get some backer behind the cracks to support them a bit more. i had just a small hole with a few cracks to start with and every time something hit it the hole got bigger and bigger. i work construction so the trucks takes a beating anyways.

the wole started about the size of a socker ball and once i hit strong head winds on the highway it blew the rest of what you see out. Once these fenders get cracks they lose alot of their structure. and become pretty weak. it's better to reinforce em now when you still have the pieces to keep it together then to try to reform a new piece.

J Lent

My brothers 04.5 truck had the same problem after a trailer slid around in the snow & wacked his dually fender. I bought him a like new fender on ebay for $50+ $25 shipping. It would have cost that much to repair it.

jmlcolorado

yeah i've been looking around for used fenders to buy. they seem to be pretty hard to come by. I'm gonna have about a hunderd bucks into it after its all said and done. but i'll also have the bragging rights to say i fixed it myself too. I'm a big "do-it-yourselfer" so i like getting my hands dirty on things like this.
Plus i get to learn how to do something new and see if i'm any good at it.