Opinions on repair to E'69 rear wheel well splash shield

[Kevin S.]

I am interested in your opinions regarding some repairs I've made to my rear LH wheel well splash shield. When I started the repair, I was just going to remove all the excessive vette bond that was present on the rear facing side of the LH rear splash shield. Once I got the old vette bond off, I discovered why they globbed on the vette bond. It was done to cover a large crack in the splash shield. Car was hit in the rear at some point in the past, so my assumption is this was done as part of the previous body damage and repairs. I decided to replace the LH rear splash shield due to the damage rather than fiberglass over (cover) a previous repair and then use gel coat tint in the resin to match the original color of the splash shield and rear quarter panel.

Here's my question. I applied a bead of SEM 39747 Dual-Mix Multi-Purpose fiberglass panel adhesive to the bonding strip. I had a really nice clean finish where the bonding strip attached to the quarter panel and I am regretting that I did not just leave it alone. I got over zealous and decided to go back over the rear seam and add a bead of the adhesive to the rear edge of the bonding strip. Not sure I like it. The adhesive is black and really sticks out in my opinion. I can't decide now if I should go back over the seam area and try to remove as much of the black adhesive from the edge of the seam as I can, using my Dremel and attachments. Got really stupid and did the RH rear splash shield too thinking they should at least match.

Do you think I should fix it? Or does the repair look okay to you?

Sorry about the orientation of the pics, not sure how to correct it so they display in portrait. Pics were in portrait on my phone and on my PC but they change to horizontal when I upload the pics here?

Kevin

Photo 1 - LH splash shield Before with the globbed on vette bond
Photo 2 - RH splash shield Before
Photo 3 - found large crack under the vette bond in LH splash shield
Photo 4 - decided to remove the LH shield
Photo 5 - sourced an OEM LH splash shield from George W. on Corvette Forum, original part off donor rear clip
Photo 6 - shows the RH shield cleaned up with the bead of fiberglass adhesive added so it would match the LH side

[Joseph W.]

[Kevin S.]

Re: Opinions on repair to E'69 rear wheel well splash shield

Hi Joe,
Thanks for your comment. The rear side where the bonding strip is located is plain fiberglass. The forward side of the splash shield does get sprayed with undercoating material and I am okay on the forward side, the wheel well side, and am following my NCRS book and some NCRS regional event photos that I took to duplicate where the undercoating should be applied and where undercoating should not be sprayed.

One vote for leave it alone - thanks

Kevin

[Michael L.]

Re: Opinions on repair to E'69 rear wheel well splash shield

I agree with Joe. It looks fine, especially after the undercoating is sprayed.

Mike

[Kevin S.]

Re: Opinions on repair to E'69 rear wheel well splash shield

Hey Mike,
Thank you for responding.

I do not believe the rear facing side of the splash shields are NCRS judged in the Chassis category anyway since you can't see that area very well once the mufflers and exhaust are installed. I have wide-open access to the LH / RH rear splash shields right now so this was the time to determine if I needed to correct what I've done or move on. Based on Your's and Joe's opinions, looks like it's time to move on to the next items on my restoration list.

Thank you both for responding to my question. I feel better getting a second and third opinion.

Kevin