Shipfitters disease, also referred to as “might as well” syndrome, or “while you are in there” syndrome has set in.
I had to remove one of the fenders and the floorboards to get access to the clutch master and slave cylinders. Due to being rather busy and slow delivery of parts I am finally in a position to put them back on, except I could not resist the urge to cleanup any visible rust. This lead to a fair amount of work and culminated in poking a nice sized hole into the passenger footwell which forced my hand to pull the other fender to properly patch the footwell and give the passenger side the same rust retarding treatment. Of course removing that fender makes it easy to remove the battery box and air filter bracket, replace the fan cowl (thereby painting the fan too) and the fan belt “while I’m in there“. Fun stuff
