Fender Removal

[cdirth]

After a period of months of sitting I can finally work on the Mini for the next couple weeks. My first project is to take off the front fenders and nose panel. Looking around I don't see any obvious bolts holding things together. Any tips on how to get the stuff off?

[Andrew.Bertschi]

Chris, the front 'wings' are an integral part of the Mini body shell and not unboltable. To remove them you would have to cut them off with a nibbler, cutoff wheel or other cutting tool. If your's need to be replaced, you will need to be able to weld or get in touch with a body shop to attach the new ones.

The illustration below shows what a 'raw' Mini shell looks like.

[cdirth]

Thanks Andrew, after I spent some more time looking at it I figured that it was welded together and not easily removable.