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MG MGB Technical - Fender Liners

Hey Folks, I have fender liners for the 73B but no instructions. Has anyone installed them and if so, How? Thanks, Tom-ready for SPRING!
Tom In W-W-windy upstate NY

With heat! Otherwise they fight back.
Paul Hunt

Hi Tom,
you will need to take the wheel off...you will also need to make sure the wheel well metal lip is in good condition facing the tire.

You also need 4 or 6 sheet metal screws per wheel and some flat machine washers...stainless always better...going from memory....position them in the wheel well...then I started at the front or top...cant remember...and worked backwards. There is a type of rubber fold on the outer edge of the liner that fits over the metal lip of the wheel well...My advice is to try to arrange them so that they have a little excess (1cm) behind the tire....meaning that they fit slightly below the bottom of the front fender (wing) to act as a miniature mud flap. This has worked very well on mine, preventing water from splashing up not just in the wheel well but also on the bottom of the front fender (wing. This means if you are looking at the front wheel spline rotate the liner a little clockwise. After fitting is complete, screw the screws up through both the plastic liner lip and the metal lip where they overlap with the washers on the screws of course. This will be intuitive when you get to this point. I only put screws at the lip...none inside the well although I think the instructions call for this Ive never had a problem in 5 years. I cut one edge of the washers so they do not protrude out from the body work before I screwed them on. you will see what Im talking about when you get to this point.

It seems a shame to put screw holes in your bodywork...One of my cars is a '66 with 45k original miles with original paint....I didnt want to do it but I also wanted to be able to drive it without having it rust away like the other 'B's Ive had.
jjralston

Hey guys, thanks for the advice, I hope to have them installed by the weekend. The liners are in two pieces, the liner itself and a vinyl or rubber "Z" strip that goes between the liner and the fender well flange. Apparently they were glued together at some point. Thanks again, Tom
Tom

Tom,
Do you still need the instructions? I can scan and email them if so.
Mike

I also have these - I have thus far contact adhesived the black edge strip back on to the area it detatched itstelf from. I did try to fit on a cold day, but gave up after i had run out of swear words (combined with with quitting smoking a few months back - not good idea). Paul, when you say 'with heat', do you mean on a hot day after leaving them in the sun, or with a heat gun? Present attempts to fit these have failed miserably, and i was wondering if they were to be consigned to my 'seemed a good idea at the time' area of the shed?
cheers
mick
mick

If anyone needs the instructions, please find attached a scan of the instructions that came with my (yet to be fitted!) kit. Sorry the scan is a bit poor but the original is a 2nd or 3rd genration photocopy. I've given it a quick cleanup as my copy was also creased and marked.

HTH someone.



Mike

Mick - hot day as a minimum, but I've seen a heat gun helps even then.
Paul Hunt

cheers Paul - a hot day it is. I may be waiting some time.
mick

If you can make that Z-shape rubber thing work I'll be amazed. I struggled with it for hours then threw it away. In the end I bought some edge strip like this http://www.woolies-trim.co.uk/p-1288-pvc-edge-trim.aspx and put it all round the plastic arch liner. It grips the liner nicely. Then I fitted the liner entirely inside the lip and using four stainless self-tappers I screwed through the lip into the edge trim. It has a steel spring in it so accepts a screw happily. I then sealed the crack between the lip and the liner with black sealer. Apart from the four screw heads it is invisible.
Mike Howlett

This thread was discussed between 13/02/2009 and 17/02/2009

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