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Re: Front yard Flexing
« Reply #15 on: August 15, 2009, 03:17:22 AM »
it's trimmed just perfect.  fit over form.

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Re: Front yard Flexing
« Reply #16 on: August 15, 2009, 03:27:31 AM »
two maids a milking... ::)
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Re: Front yard Flexing
« Reply #17 on: August 15, 2009, 04:14:22 PM »
I like were your head is at lol :D
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Re: Front yard Flexing
« Reply #18 on: August 16, 2009, 05:59:16 AM »
ok i'll try to explain. similar to how me and kirk did my rear ones, if you cut 2 high then they seperate and you can get water up into the rear of the jeep. me and kirk did it so we put jb weld in there. kirk help me out here. he should know what im talking about with this.
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Re: Front yard Flexing
« Reply #19 on: August 16, 2009, 06:07:08 AM »
like if you cut 2 far up and the inner and outter fender seperate. atleast thats how it works on the rear.
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Re: Front yard Flexing
« Reply #20 on: August 16, 2009, 06:34:33 AM »
whopse  :D
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Re: Front yard Flexing
« Reply #21 on: August 16, 2009, 06:35:50 AM »
i miss my jeep. they said i may not get it until september 25th.  :( :'( if i had it then i could go outside and look at mine to disprove my own theory.
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Re: Front yard Flexing
« Reply #22 on: August 16, 2009, 06:44:00 AM »
i don't think that the jeep will survive while driving it in the pacific. unless you had a good idea for like a 1/2 mile tall snorkel.
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Re: Front yard Flexing
« Reply #23 on: August 17, 2009, 04:58:58 PM »
ok i'll try to explain. similar to how me and kirk did my rear ones, if you cut 2 high then they seperate and you can get water up into the rear of the jeep. me and kirk did it so we put jb weld in there. kirk help me out here. he should know what im talking about with this.

Yeah its fine, i didnt cut too high and i  made sure not to cut through any of the spot welds. I just made a bunch of vertical cuts, more were the corners were and bent and pounded them all inside the fender, and then i hit it all with some black rustoleum. The front isn't like the back, its just sheet metal and plastic, i ripped most of the plastic out except for the spot were it would fling mud into the door hinges, and i just cut the metal with a jigsaw.
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Re: Front yard Flexing
« Reply #24 on: August 17, 2009, 05:13:43 PM »
Andy it sounds like you did the same thing Doug and I did.  I came up with a little cleaner method on my YJ ( sorry Doug you were the test Jeep).  I cut the metal about 1/2" longer then the opening I wanted.  I then took a short pair or channel locks and bent a lip inwards so the lip was about 1/2" wide (hence the 1/2" left when cutting).  With several differnt size hammers I tapped (not beat) the bent lip until it was flat.  I took my time with the hammer and the bending  and from only a few feet away it looks like a factory lip.  Since the paint was a little rough after the bending and hammering I hit the lip with a little truck bed liner and put the flair back on. 

This method takes a lot longer, but the results are clean and the lip provided a place for the innder fender linder to go into, which isn't on the XJs.
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Re: Front yard Flexing
« Reply #25 on: August 19, 2009, 05:35:02 AM »
it's ok kirk mine looks fine. so now when i cut the front i just cut if off right? don't need to bend it or do i?
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Re: Front yard Flexing
« Reply #26 on: August 19, 2009, 08:11:34 AM »
u just cut it
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Re: Front yard Flexing
« Reply #27 on: October 02, 2009, 05:07:37 AM »
Put the stock fenders back on the front, just trimmed em up a bit, used zip ties. Came out ok.





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Re: Front yard Flexing
« Reply #28 on: October 02, 2009, 09:55:26 AM »
i would do that but hawaii doesn't like zip ties  :'(
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Re: Front yard Flexing
« Reply #29 on: October 02, 2009, 03:38:17 PM »
What do you mean?
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