914Rubber fender liner installation Options

[raynekat]

Installing the 914Rubber fender liners....

They come with rivets for fastening the plastic liners to the mounting brackets.
It quickly became apparent that installation was going to be difficult if I used the rivets.
The rivets fasten the liner to the mounting brackets and then the brackets use your rocker panel and valance sheet metal bolts to hold the liner in place.

So I opted to use speed nuts that sit on the mounting brackets so that hex headed metric screws could be used instead of the rivets.
Here was the hardware and bracket ready to bolt into the car.



The reason I went this will become apparent pretty quickly.
Here's the leading edge (front) that utilizes the valance mounting bolt.
In theory you could have put this in as a unit (bracket and liner) as you actually have access to the bolt that mounts the valence.



The real problem with the rivet method is mounting the trailing edge (rear) bracket that uses the rocker cover bolt.



You can't access the bolt to secure the bracket to the rocker cover as it's behind the liner.
So with my method you mount the bare bracket first and then fasten the liner to the bracket.
Here's a better view of the finished product.
No way you're getting your hand in behind the liner to tighten or loosen the bracket with the liner in place.




With the speed nut and hex head screws I used, you can easily take the liner off in a matter of minutes without removing the brackets at the valance and rocker panel.
Inspection and cleaning is still an easy thing to accomplish.

[raynekat]

Finished out the rear fender wells today with the help from the twins. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

Both sides went in fairly easily.
I think I shaved the side of one of the liners but didn't have to shorten either of them for installation.

Same drill.
First painted and drilled the brackets for larger holes for my speed nuts and hex headed screws.

Then installed the brackets into the valance screw and rocker panel screw locations.
Here's the front or leading edge location for the liner.