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92 Subaru Legacy L *wagon*
The rear fender doesn't bolt on for the wagon. The salvage yards that
carry old Subies won't let you use torches, sawsalls, or any tools to
cut body parts off. It has to be removable via bolts. It's their
insurance that restricts how their customers can remove parts. That
means I cannot cur off a body panel to use it on my vehicle.
On my old '92, the rear fender has rusted out on the backside of the
wheel well. About 2 inches of the lower lip is gone (at the bottom of
the metal panel to which the lower vinyl skirt attaches) so one bolt
won't support the front of the vinyl skirt. About the same is missing
for the wheel well lip. There is a hole in the side panel at this
corner (wheel well and lower side skirt). I don't have any means of
bending out a new metal piece to overlay that area. So I figured to
frankencar the rusted out spot by cutting off the rear panel from a car
at the salvage yard, cut it to size by first making a template, prep
the old fender, and attach the cut-out piece atop that spot. There is
room between the lower lip and the vinyl skirt to position another lip
in there and the wheel well lip would just overlap. I'd then run the
top cut line straight back at the height of the gas cap opening on the
other side (since that side has a rust out, too), use some bondo, and
basically have an edge run horizoontall to the rear. Would look good
enough to me and might even look good overall. Problem is in getting
the fender from which I can cut out the piece to lay atop the old piece
where the rust gets cut out..
I can't get a chunk of th rear fender from the salvage yard. I can't
find Subies at any other salvage yard except for these two yards that
won't let me cut out body metal. So I'm wondering if the shape of the
rear fenders on a sedan model might match. Maybe the rear fenders on a
sedan are bolted on so then I could remove them, cut them to get out a
lower piece and frankenstein my car that way. But it would require the
shape of the fender on the sedan to be a match at the bottom of the
fender. So, does anyone know if the lower portion of a rear fender on
a 90-94 Legacy *sedan* might match the the shape of the lower part of
the affixed fender panel on a 92 Legacy *wagon*? The sedan's fender
might be shorter but that's not critical (but then I would have to run
the "bead" at the visible overlay edge in a square shape). It's the
area of about 4 inches up and 4 inches back from the corner of the
wheel well and lower viny side skirt (i.e., bottom edge of rear panel
behind wheel) that I would need to overlap.
I might've tried using sheet metal but I have no means of bending out a
nice straight lip at the bottom and also a lip for the wheel well. I
figured to cut out a piece of a junk car that included those lips and
would cover the opening after removing the rusted metal. If the
salvage yard gets in a 90-94 Legacy sedan and *if* the rear fenders on
a sedan bolt into place then I can grab one and snip out the corner
with lips to cover my rust out.
The rear fender doesn't bolt on for the wagon. The salvage yards that
carry old Subies won't let you use torches, sawsalls, or any tools to
cut body parts off. It has to be removable via bolts. It's their
insurance that restricts how their customers can remove parts. That
means I cannot cur off a body panel to use it on my vehicle.
On my old '92, the rear fender has rusted out on the backside of the
wheel well. About 2 inches of the lower lip is gone (at the bottom of
the metal panel to which the lower vinyl skirt attaches) so one bolt
won't support the front of the vinyl skirt. About the same is missing
for the wheel well lip. There is a hole in the side panel at this
corner (wheel well and lower side skirt). I don't have any means of
bending out a new metal piece to overlay that area. So I figured to
frankencar the rusted out spot by cutting off the rear panel from a car
at the salvage yard, cut it to size by first making a template, prep
the old fender, and attach the cut-out piece atop that spot. There is
room between the lower lip and the vinyl skirt to position another lip
in there and the wheel well lip would just overlap. I'd then run the
top cut line straight back at the height of the gas cap opening on the
other side (since that side has a rust out, too), use some bondo, and
basically have an edge run horizoontall to the rear. Would look good
enough to me and might even look good overall. Problem is in getting
the fender from which I can cut out the piece to lay atop the old piece
where the rust gets cut out..
I can't get a chunk of th rear fender from the salvage yard. I can't
find Subies at any other salvage yard except for these two yards that
won't let me cut out body metal. So I'm wondering if the shape of the
rear fenders on a sedan model might match. Maybe the rear fenders on a
sedan are bolted on so then I could remove them, cut them to get out a
lower piece and frankenstein my car that way. But it would require the
shape of the fender on the sedan to be a match at the bottom of the
fender. So, does anyone know if the lower portion of a rear fender on
a 90-94 Legacy *sedan* might match the the shape of the lower part of
the affixed fender panel on a 92 Legacy *wagon*? The sedan's fender
might be shorter but that's not critical (but then I would have to run
the "bead" at the visible overlay edge in a square shape). It's the
area of about 4 inches up and 4 inches back from the corner of the
wheel well and lower viny side skirt (i.e., bottom edge of rear panel
behind wheel) that I would need to overlap.
I might've tried using sheet metal but I have no means of bending out a
nice straight lip at the bottom and also a lip for the wheel well. I
figured to cut out a piece of a junk car that included those lips and
would cover the opening after removing the rusted metal. If the
salvage yard gets in a 90-94 Legacy sedan and *if* the rear fenders on
a sedan bolt into place then I can grab one and snip out the corner
with lips to cover my rust out.