Went a little stir crazy this past weekend ...all the crumby weather recently had me tearing my car apart instead of driving it!!! ...so I decided to restore the front wheel wells and heater box cover on the Beau.
I removed the many layers of paint and flaking undercoating using a glass bead blaster. Amazing...no rust damage anywhere (they are origonal to the car)
On the drivers side... there is a very ugly hole (not sure if it's supposed to be there or not?) ...when I looked through the hole I could see the shift fork retaining nut (connected to the manual transmission).
...Can someone tell me if it's supposed to be there or not???
Also...Did Beaumonts come from the factory undercoated? ...or was that a dealership option? (I don't want to undercoat them again)
My Oshawa-built 67 Chevelle does not have the hole in the lower part of the inner fender that you show. My car left the factory with a Powerglide, if that makes any difference. Unless there are different part #s shown for the inner fenders of the manual vs. automatic cars, I would surmise that it is a field service thing. There were holes in the inner fenders that were used to hold clips for wire bundles to the horn relay & alternator.
My car did not have undercoating from the factory. Surprisingly the floors were pretty good for being an Ontario car. Canadian cars were painted differently than the U.S. cars on the floors though, painted with body colour and in enamel to give the northern cars a fighting chance for a few years. There actually was an RPO for underbody oil spray on the Canadian A-bodies, RPO X17.
jlysholm said
Jun 13, 2012
Thanx CdnGMfan,
I believe your correct. The hole looks to be a "field service repair"
A previous owner or mechanic probably couldn't be bothered to remove the inner fender to access the shift fork nut, so they carved a hole with a very dull drill bit!
I'll weld it up this morning.
Cheers!
Kyle
Canadian Poncho said
Jun 13, 2012
I seem to recall hearing a lot of Olds 442 red inner fenders met a similar fate...
Hi guys,
Went a little stir crazy this past weekend ...all the crumby weather recently had me tearing my car apart instead of driving it!!! ...so I decided to restore the front wheel wells and heater box cover on the Beau.
I removed the many layers of paint and flaking undercoating using a glass bead blaster. Amazing...no rust damage anywhere (they are origonal to the car)
On the drivers side... there is a very ugly hole (not sure if it's supposed to be there or not?)
...when I looked through the hole I could see the shift fork retaining nut (connected to the manual transmission).
...Can someone tell me if it's supposed to be there or not???
Also...Did Beaumonts come from the factory undercoated? ...or was that a dealership option? (I don't want to undercoat them again)
Painting them correct (Satin Black)
...Sorry about the pics (taken via my Crackberry)
Thanks in advance for your help.
Kyle
My Oshawa-built 67 Chevelle does not have the hole in the lower part of the inner fender that you show. My car left the factory with a Powerglide, if that makes any difference. Unless there are different part #s shown for the inner fenders of the manual vs. automatic cars, I would surmise that it is a field service thing. There were holes in the inner fenders that were used to hold clips for wire bundles to the horn relay & alternator.
My car did not have undercoating from the factory. Surprisingly the floors were pretty good for being an Ontario car. Canadian cars were painted differently than the U.S. cars on the floors though, painted with body colour and in enamel to give the northern cars a fighting chance for a few years. There actually was an RPO for underbody oil spray on the Canadian A-bodies, RPO X17.
Thanx CdnGMfan,
I believe your correct. The hole looks to be a "field service repair"
A previous owner or mechanic probably couldn't be bothered to remove the inner fender to access the shift fork nut, so they carved a hole with a very dull drill bit!
I'll weld it up this morning.
Cheers!
Kyle