Dent repair

[49autocycledeluxe]

I may not be an expert at anything in real life but I like to play one on the internet.

 

[49autocycledeluxe]

..400 Firebird. nice.

 

[razinhellcustomz]

This is the fender in question.

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Man that is a pretty sizable dent!! You might want to consider a replacement fender. If that's not an option, i use a small ball peen hammer and a craftsman vise with the anvil end that works pretty good. Good luck and ride on. Razin. P.s. Send a pic of the front end of the bike. I really like that rack too!!

 

[Sven]

here's what you do.

one thing a great many people do not realize is the metal does not know which is the hammer and which is the dolly. so most people would hammer the indented part from the inside trying to push it back out.

That would be my dumb a55 self.
Good luck.Post pictures of your results.

 

[Cranky Chain Cycles]

Man that is a pretty sizable dent!! You might want to consider a replacement fender. If that's not an option, i use a small ball peen hammer and a craftsman vise with the anvil end that works pretty good. Good luck and ride on. Razin. P.s. Send a pic of the front end of the bike. I really like that rack too!!

After you hammer it out, would using an English roller be usable to fine tune it? I question if it would fit and if the fenders braces would get in the way.


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[redline1968]

Stainless is a harder metal it will take a better “beating”. Lol still to get it nice again , it will need some fine sanding and serious polishing to get it to shine up and it still will show every small dent left.. if not done right.. lot harder to get straight. I hate stainless. Takes too much time to get perfect.. you know I think you should get a new panel. Straightening stainless you have to be really good at body work it’s not for the faint of hart and a novice it takes lots of patience and body work knowledge or get a fender roller on this one....doing it by hand isn’t easy.

 

[razinhellcustomz]

After you hammer it out, would using an English roller be usable to fine tune it? I question if it would fit and if the fenders braces would get in the way.


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You could try an english wheel. I saw your front fender also has a big dent. Some body must have been really pissed off at your bike, or what made such huge dents? Ride on. Razin. P.S. The braces do come off. If their rivets, Drill out and replace with screws or new rivets. Easy Beans.

 

[Brutuskend]

I had been looking for a good dolly for some time for fender work. Something with compound curves, and I finally got a 2 inch and a 4 inch heavy pvc pipe elbow. With the 2 inch one I can use it as a dolly for the inside of the fender and, after cutting the 4 inch in half, I can use that as a dolly for the outside of the fender. I had to do a little filing and sanding.to get things nice and smooth, but since I couldn't come up with anything steel with the curves I wanted, this works well for light hammering work.

 

[morton]

Best dent repair "tool" ever is a class a bodyman for a friend. My buddy worked on high dollar classics for a restoration shop, was a Corvette specialist at a busy GM dealer, straightened frames, and did about anything you can imagine with metal and fiberglass. I would show him a dented fender, he would look at it for a few moments, get out the appropriate dolly/hammer, and presto, some tapping, a couple of coats of primer, wet sand and the dent was gone. Note: I did the primer/wet sand!

Never forget the time I was having trouble getting the door to latch properly on my MGA. I was back and forth with that latch plate a hundred times but nothing worked. He took one look at , said "give me a screw driver," and in 30 seconds I had a perfectly adjusted door latch!

He is retired now and has many interesting stories like the time an elderly lady brought back her Cadillac and complained he hadn't properly repaired her car. She was in a huff because the emblems on her wheel covers weren't aligned on the front and rear wheels! Knowing it was useless to argue, he apologized and made a big show of pulling the front wheel cover and carefully positioning it so the logo was in the same orientation as the rear. His buddies in the shop were laughing the axes off the whole time, especailly when she thanked him for taking care of her problem and drove off. Kicker to this story is she never came back to complain. He guessed a friend or relative clued her in about wheel cover alignment.

 

[49autocycledeluxe]

here's a dolly I made just for fenders as well as my hammer and dolly drawer. I use one hammer for 95% of what I do and really only 2 or 3 of the dollies, the others do have their purposes though.

for perfection I would use my shrinking disc on the creased / stretched parts as well.