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The Mud Pit => Vids and Pics => Topic started by: BlacXJeep on August 13, 2009, 10:31:48 PM
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Got bored this morning decided to disconnect front sway bar and test out the flex with my trimmed fenders and bigger tires. Pretty suprising, and not too much rubbing either. Another inch and a half of lift should put me in a pretty good place for a while.
Heres some poser shots just because
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nice
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sweet dude. Your ready for the mall!!
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sweet dude. Your ready for the mall!!
yessir!
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ew :-\ idk man i don't like the way your front fenders came out. it looks like paul drank a bottle of tequila and go ahold of a chainsaw.
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yeah it was a jig saw and it could use some grinding, but yeah I don't care cuz its not made to be pretty :P
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haha im not trying to start crap just sayin. coulda taken ur time maybe :P
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It looks good. Cherokees naturally have good flex. You just have to get them up high enough to let it show.
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haha tables have turned on the poking fun ;D and yes from what i've seen they flex amazingly after lifted.
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haha tables have turned on the poking fun ;D and yes from what i've seen they flex amazingly after lifted.
i dont know about turned, but evry now and then we all need a round of gettin crapped on by our peers.... some (RJ) more than others :P
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haha im not trying to start crap just sayin. coulda taken ur time maybe :P
The cut is right along the original curve of the fender. You had already said you didn't like trimmed front fenders in the first place. But thats ok, cuz your still running baby tires. Some day you might actually understand. :P
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Hey now I trimmed the back Java but the front will b coming soon also
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Hey now I trimmed the back Java but the front will b coming soon also
The rear comes out alot cleaner with the cut and fold method, the front is just what it is, always seems to look a little chopped from what I've seen no matter how meticulous you are about it.
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hm... well looking at your picture it looks like they're are 2 halves of the fender on there. and they're not painted on the inside so what do you do? maybe im just not looking at the picture right.
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hm... well looking at your picture it looks like they're are 2 halves of the fender on there. and they're not painted on the inside so what do you do? maybe im just not looking at the picture right.
2 halves? shwat? Doesn't that equal a whole? I really don't know what your talking about broseph. Roger can you maybe translate? Your other half is confusing me.
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it's trimmed just perfect. fit over form.
form follows function...
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two maids a milking... ::)
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I like were your head is at lol :D
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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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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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whopse :D
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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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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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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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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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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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u just cut it
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Put the stock fenders back on the front, just trimmed em up a bit, used zip ties. Came out ok.
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i would do that but hawaii doesn't like zip ties :'(
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What do you mean?
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it's illegal in the state of hawaii for zip ties to hold anything onto your vehicle.
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Duct Tape is perfectly legal though
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Even wires?
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basically everything needs to be held on with bolts, screws, nails. stuff like that.