trying to line up front right fender and lower valance

[ROGERLEE]

i sent off my drivers side front fender to the shop for repairs( i have a 71 satellite) i am trying to line up the fender with the lower front valance, the pan with the park lites, i have removed the front grille/ the lower front pan, i have looseen all the bolts holding my fender on, but for the life of me i can't get the damn lower bolts to match up, where it curves. I have almost lost a finger trying to match them up...please don't tell me i have to remove the front bumper. i have tried pushing, pulling, cussing, and bleeding still no luck, are there a secret or method, the only bolt i have holding the fender on is the one near the top back stud...please help this fat old man with his problem, i ain't nearly as fat or as old as i let out to be, but when a damn old fender kicks your butt..it makes me wonder

[ROGERLEE]

well folks i finally got it,i had been trying to line up the front valance with the drivers fender, the reason i was having so much pain was because i was trying to do it without removing the center two bolts, near the radiator support,i was trying to manhandle it, i had already removed everything else, but that, anyway, i got it. I was putting too much emphasis on the damn fender, i had evry bolt and nut loose or out, i was trying to bring the mountain to mohammad, than the other way around...still fat though

[Serious Satellite]

still fat? LOL. I've been telling my wife that the only thing that's changed in thirty years of marriage is the letter C. . ..the hunk is now a Chunk!

Damn genetics. . .why couldn't I just be bald like everyone else on this forum?

[bruce]

Some of us bald guys are "chunks" too!

[ROGERLEE]

amen brother!!, you know i remember about a hundred years ago, when i didn't have to wear "reading glasses" to work on my old 71, now every time i go to a dollar store, k-mart, or what i usually wind up in the glasses section, they are cheap about 5.00 a pair, but there is nothing like a good set of eyes when you are trying to focus on something tiny, but i may be a "tad" fat, over the hill, cantseeum, but i am grateful for my health...funny story, the other day i had my hood up on my 71 satellite and i saw my neighbors cat...poised...very still.on top of my radiator support staring at i don't know what? so i in my devilish way, snuck up on the cat and poked him in the ass with a hickory stick..that son of a biscuit about jumped out of his skin, hitting his head on the underside of the hood, i don't even think the cat landed, i think he actually flew off from under the hood...so blindass me, puts my "reading glasses" back on and start working on my fender, i was getting aggravated so i put my hands on the radiator,"just resting" and i spot a HUGE ASS BLACK SNAKE, coiled around my intake..now i know what the neighbors cat was looking at!!, so i get the stick i had used to poke the cat in the ass, and touch the snake, he just slivered on down between the top of the tranny and 'POOf" he was gone, now the moral of the story is ITS BETTER TO KNOW WHERE A HUGEASSBLACK SNAKE IS RATHER THAN NOT KNOW!!

[Smellslike1974]

amen brother!!, you know i remember about a hundred years ago, when i didn't have to wear "reading glasses" to work on my old 71,

uh......

[CtownRunner]

To those of us who actually were driving in 71 it seems like 100 yrs ago now.

[71440 gtx]

To those of us who actually were driving in 71 it seems like 100 yrs ago now.