Help me take my car apart!

robbz28

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I am doing a quickie restoration on my 67 coupe, never having messed with a mustang before I have been running into snags. What I need help with right now is fender removal...I didn't have much time the other day when I started to remove my passenger fender, but I must be missing some bolts somewhere...I took out the 2 behind the grille, the bumper bracket bolt, all the bolts on top under the hood, the one that you have to access from the door and the ones on the bottom behind the wheel....am i missing some somewhere?
Also, any other surprises I might be facing in removing the entire front clip? I plan on blasting the engine compartment and refreshing my suspension and swapping my brakes to disc during this phase...any help is appreciated!

 

dharrelson

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The early cars have a nut you access from the kick panel. Pretty sure the '67 will be the same. Remove the kick panel cover, look for a round hole maybe 1" +/- dia.

 

robbz28

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Thanks, ill check there, it also seems like its stuck in the front somewhere, but it could just be "glued" by the old paint and whatnot...

 

hungrymonkey

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I at work today, so I cannot post pictures.

I believe there is a bolt behind the splash guards. Along with 1 or 2 underneath.

 

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robbz28 said:

Also, any other surprises I might be facing in removing the entire front clip? I plan on blasting the engine compartment and refreshing my suspension and swapping my brakes to disc during this phase...any help is appreciated!

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The main surprise might be that since Mustangs are not Camaros, the front clip doesn't come off. You'll have to refinish it where it is.

 

robbz28

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Ill be sure and check all these points first chance i get...my splash guards have disentigrated anyways and will need to be replaced, but I had an idea and wanted to throw this out there...anyone seen or heard of someone putting plastic inner splash shields (like retro-fitting some new ones) on the inside front of their old mustang? I am NOT restoring this car to an original state, so any improvements over the old ways are being considered, plus anything that adds cool-factor...

 

robbz28

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I understand about the front clip....that the car is basically like a tub with a shell around it, but im wanting to get it down to the inner fenders and radiator support, yank the engine and tranny, blast all i can, sand whats left and give it all a healthy shot of satin black. The old camaros were nice in the fact that you and a buddy could take 30 minutes and a couple of wrenches and get the whole nose off the car and out of the way. You wouldnt believe (or you probably would) the amount of crap I catch from all my buddies, esp my ford buddies...3 camaro's and now a ford....but my ford buddies have pulled through for me, offering me all kinds of freebies and whatnot...but all freebies come with a price, probably to the tune of "hey...you mind if we use your lift this weekend?" =)

 

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I don't see how you could put plastic inner fenders on it.

 

robbz28

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Wow...yeah, that is exactly where I hope to be on my car by thanksgiving....nice pic, im going to hang onto that for reference. And the plastic fender liners would have to fasten to the wheel opening on the fender...if it would work, i dont know, just a random thought I had...the old metal ones were made for it, so thats probably what im going to use (less headache).