Wings & Inner Wings.........

460 diesel has the vacuum tank under the left wing .. and I bet the bolts are seized :cry:

Getting the inner wings off is not too bad .. but if rusty I broke one stud onto the body shell and ended up cutting the chassis mount bolt at the the front .. plus rebuilt the vacuum tank protection and one of the studs into the plastic tank. Also note the dealer sells parts for wings; headlight bowl, inner wing front pillar and the double skin part at the rear.

Currently no inner and outer wings (or interior/windscreen, doors, bonnet..)

hi john,have you any problems on the firewall rubber mounts that the wings fit onto?i have water ingress there!!

i was wondering if you have ant pics of your firewall,as i am curious to see what i am up against.

rgds hus.

cheers mate :)

There is the rear windscreen washer pipe that goes through at that point .. you can feel it inside behind the speaker mount but more likely the issue is that the seam under the lip the inner wing mounts to has corrosion issues... have a look from inside; mine had streaks of rust here but as the windscreen bottom was shot maybe it was just from the drain holes that direct water flow down here! ... I dug out all the seam sealant here, welded up the little bit of hole and once all back together I hope to OK.

Those are hard plastic spacers on a 1989 model.

The studs pass through a double skin and you can feel the stud head from inside the A pillar/front wing section from through the hole behind the speaker.

Mine has some internal rusting between the skins but not too bad. The plastic spacer has no sealing function and if it leaked here it would pass down into the A pillar and drain out of the sills. I had streaks here and they were from the hollow section that forms the base of the windscreen- when this perforates under the rubber it has a couple of holes to pass the water down .. into this area... but hey your rust maybe different!