How and where do you staple in the A arm dust covers on the wells? on the top? inside by the wheel? And how do you get staples to go through thick rubber and steel? Help We've rebuilt just about everything and this is the question we can't get around and although people think there are a millon of us second gens out there are only a few with these installed correctly. HELP Sonman

Welcome to the board! Always nice to have another Minnesota member! http://www.nastyz28.com/ubb/biggrin.gif

I'm really not sure about the attachment of those pieces. I will be working under the car sometime in the next week or so. I'll try to remember to take a pic for you.

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Welcome to the board! Always nice to have another Minnesota member! http://www.nastyz28.com/ubb/biggrin.gif

I'm really not sure about the attachment of those pieces. I will be working under the car sometime in the next week or so. I'll try to remember to take a pic for you.
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Thanks just got finished detailing underhood just need that to finish.

ALSO GREAT TO BE HERE WHAT I'M SEEING IS A LOT OF LUCKY GUYS AND GAL'S THAT ARE FROM ANYWHERE ELSE THEY SEEM TO BE ABLE TO FIND PARTS AND CHEEP CARS I DON'T KNOW ABOUT YOU BUT THE LAST TIME I WENT SHOPPING AT BONE YARDS I WENT TO THREE LARGE ONES UP HERE AND NOT ONE SECOND GEN JUST A LOT OF THIRD AND SOME FOURTH. THEY ARE RARE UP HERE MINE CAME FROM ARIZONA GREAT BODY NO INTERIOR CARS AND CONCEPTS T TOPS 305 WITH AUTO. LOTS OF WORK INTO IT BUT REBUILT 350 A 71 SS CJD LUCKED OUT ON THAT ONE. GOOD TO HERE FROM YOU.

The installation of the slash shields is best accomplished with the fender wells out of the car. You have to remove the old staples (use a dremel and cut them off). Then you check the size of the new ones and ensure that they will go through the holes. You may have to ream the holes to enlarge them a little bit. Then after I put the staple through the steel and the rubber, I placed a block of wood behind the staple and tapped them inward with a hammer then I use a big set of vice grips to do the final crimping. The staples are tough. The splash shields mount under the lip on the wheel well. Good luck.

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My 79 didn't have them, and the inner wheels have no pre marked holes for the staples. I think they were more prevalent on early seventies models.