Uh??? you mentioned fenders.. those are in the rear... I've only see a few front mounted fenders on fords.. and most of those are english machines.
Are you refering to the HOOD and dogleg panels by chance? the HOOD is what is around the gas tank.
You are in luck.. ford only used about 350 small machine bolts to hold the various parts of the hood, nose piece, doglegs, dash, and cowl together. With a good set of stubby wrenches and stubby sockets, lots of pb oil, plenty of luck, and some trained mice.. you should have no problem disassembling an old rusty ford hood!
First.. get the grill out of the way.. now, get the hood center out of the way.. now undo the bolts that hold the hood torpedo side to the dash and lower dash cowl.. , will be a couple onthe side, a few onthe bottom, and one inthe top track where the hood center panel is... do that to both sides.. then there will be a dogleg lower fastener.. with that off, you should then be able to unbolt the nose piece from one of the hood sides.. againprobably be about 6-7 bolts to undo a single side.. all captive nuts too.. so if one starts turning.. it's a real booger of a job as you have to cut the captive shell off the nut to get at it. once that is done.. the hood torpedo and dogleg will come off as a unit on one side, and the other side will have a torpedo, and dogleg, and nose piece.. that only leaves the dash and cowl.. and youcan leave those on to get at the gas tank.
This is all still very fresh in my mind as i just had to assemble the sheet metal on my 951 back in april / may. Do yourself a favor.. when it goes back together.. rup a tap theru EVERY nut to clean am up
soundguy
