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Duke · 10-06-2022, 07:50 PM

Trying to finish the installation of my front fenders, hood shelves and front apron. My fenders are original, it looks like there may have been cage nuts on them originally? How do these parts all fit together. I have repro hood shelves that aren’t helping things fit.
Thanks

rotorwrench · 10-08-2022, 09:21 AM

They are spacers to take up the distance or clearance between the front of the shelf and the top of the fender. There is only one that appears to be a nut cage on each fender and the other just forward of that is more like a square shim spot welded on each fender. Many times I've found them missing or damaged. Model As had hard lives in a lot of cases.

Duke · 10-08-2022, 10:55 AM

So from the frame horn, first is a shim, next is a bolt to the frame, the next is a cage nut. How do you hold the nut for the first bolt or do I have this backwards?

Thanks

Duke · 10-08-2022, 12:18 PM

Looking at the fender again. Is it a bolt and nut at the front of the frame, then bolt and nut fender only, then the one that looks like it could hold a cage nut is just a spacer as well? Thanks

Duke · 10-08-2022, 08:55 PM

I think I figured it out. My front splash pan was missing all the nuts, they were just holes. I assumed it went on top of the fenders. I dug out a bent one from storage and transferred the brackets with the nuts to the other splash pan. With that fixed it made sense that the bolts went through the hood shelf, fender and then bolted to the splash pan that sits under the frame.

rotorwrench · 10-09-2022, 09:11 AM

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Those radiator apron nut plates are a common breakage point too. You have it all figured out now.

10-06-2022, 07:50 PM	#1
Duke Senior Member Join Date: May 2010 Location: Vernon, BC Posts: 202	1929 front fenders at frame horns nuts Trying to finish the installation of my front fenders, hood shelves and front apron. My fenders are original, it looks like there may have been cage nuts on them originally? How do these parts all fit together. I have repro hood shelves that aren’t helping things fit. Thanks

10-08-2022, 09:21 AM	#2
rotorwrench Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: San Antonio, Texas Posts: 16,440	Re: 1929 front fenders at frame horns nuts They are spacers to take up the distance or clearance between the front of the shelf and the top of the fender. There is only one that appears to be a nut cage on each fender and the other just forward of that is more like a square shim spot welded on each fender. Many times I've found them missing or damaged. Model As had hard lives in a lot of cases.

10-08-2022, 10:55 AM	#3
Duke Senior Member Join Date: May 2010 Location: Vernon, BC Posts: 202	Re: 1929 front fenders at frame horns nuts So from the frame horn, first is a shim, next is a bolt to the frame, the next is a cage nut. How do you hold the nut for the first bolt or do I have this backwards? Thanks

10-08-2022, 12:18 PM	#4
Duke Senior Member Join Date: May 2010 Location: Vernon, BC Posts: 202	Re: 1929 front fenders at frame horns nuts Looking at the fender again. Is it a bolt and nut at the front of the frame, then bolt and nut fender only, then the one that looks like it could hold a cage nut is just a spacer as well? Thanks

10-08-2022, 08:55 PM	#5
Duke Senior Member Join Date: May 2010 Location: Vernon, BC Posts: 202	Re: 1929 front fenders at frame horns nuts I think I figured it out. My front splash pan was missing all the nuts, they were just holes. I assumed it went on top of the fenders. I dug out a bent one from storage and transferred the brackets with the nuts to the other splash pan. With that fixed it made sense that the bolts went through the hood shelf, fender and then bolted to the splash pan that sits under the frame.

10-09-2022, 09:11 AM	#6
rotorwrench Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: San Antonio, Texas Posts: 16,440	Re: 1929 front fenders at frame horns nuts Sponsored Links (Register now to hide all advertisements) Those radiator apron nut plates are a common breakage point too. You have it all figured out now.