broke fender

mikedeere · Apr 18, 2007

I have a 4500 JD. I broke the fender where it attaches to the ROPS. Doe`s anyone know a good way to repair this? It is sort of plastic I think. Thanks

AKfish · Apr 18, 2007

I've never seen a "glue" or "heat" type repair made for the high-density, impact resistant plastics used in snowmachine cowlings, motor cycles etc. and JD tractors.

The repairs I have noticed typically involves some manner of sewing or bracing the two edges together with small bolts or screws and metal brackets.

Drilling small holes and heavy monofilament line and sewing the edges together works quite well. It ain't very pretty --- but it does the job!

If it's at the attachment point to the ROPS; maybe you can fabricate some brackets to hold the fender to the post. Likely gonna look a bit Frankensteinish but it would save you the $$$ of a new one.

AKfish

mikedeere · Apr 19, 2007

I did use JB weld witch held up pretty good for about 2 years but there is no support any where else so maybe some sort of bracket would help. thanks

Robert_in_NY · Apr 19, 2007

I can't find my link but when I use to ride sport bikes there was a guy on one of the fourms that welded the plastic body panels for people. I do not know the process he used but when he was done you could not tell the part was ever cracked or broke. The plastic body parts on sport bikes are not cheap so his price was very cheap when compared to the cost of new parts.Check out some of the sport bike forums and you should be able to find information on how to fix it yourself or someone that can fix them.