Offroad-Express

Thought i may as well pop up some pics of the flat-fender mod.

I must acknowledge one of the other Jeepers for the inspiration (and for letting me steal his templates) for doing this. I am merely following along anothers footsteps, so cannot take credit for being the genius behind the thinking.

After wiping my guards out a few weeks ago, and subsequently getting prices for repacement guards, both new and 2nd hand, i figured that seeing as how something had to be dont to repair the damage, that i may as well go whole hog and give it the FF. So, I'm not just being "posey", there was a practical reason for doing this.
Initially i went to ta local engineers to scam some tube and steel, and ended u getting them to bend everything up for me too, couldnt see the point me me swearing and cursing and throwing shit about, when there were experts who could do it for me, and for a very reasonable price too.















Theres no side on views for a reason..... ermm..... the angles didnt quite work out on the vertical plane, so its a work in progress at the mo, bit more bending, bit more hammering and she'll be right. Theres still a gussetted bracket for the front to make and LEDs to get for the indicators too, hopefully by Sunday it will be set to go.

They look flash fella. You perfect the design and I will steal it later on!! lol. You can cut the bars in front of the wheels now!

Nice Work!!

Nice work looks awesome. Cant say im a fan of the checkerplate though

Just had them back to the engineers, fixed the bend slightly, but looks like i might have to treadplate the whole side of the panel.............. chur cuzzie chur....... [sorry tu's]

y did you make them out of chekor i recon they dont suit it
plus its hever

DAJEEP wrote:y did you make them out of chekor i recon they dont suit it
plus its hever

they should look good once they are painted and as he has already smashed the guards he had, I believe that the new ones will take a pounding against the banks alot easier.

DAJEEP wrote:y did you make them out of chekor i recon they dont suit it
plus its hever

'Cause I wanted to.

Something sturdy to put the tools on while fixing shit.

UPDATE: Got them back from the engineers where they corrected the angle a certain degree, but still not 100%. However, they're both now 25mm narrower and are fitting a heap better. Still some boogie-ing up to do, and it certainly wont pass close scrutiny on the perfection stakes.... but black paint and black silicone on the joins, i reckon it will come up ok-ish.

xj wrote:

DAJEEP wrote:y did you make them out of chekor i recon they dont suit it
plus its hever

'Cause I wanted to.

Something sturdy to put the tools on while fixing shit.

will make an awesome bar leaner too

skid wrote:

DAJEEP wrote:y did you make them out of chekor i recon they dont suit it
plus its hever

they should look good once they are painted and as he has already smashed the guards he had, I believe that the new ones will take a pounding against the banks alot easier.

Yeah I was thinking that. Will good when painted.

Could even pull up a chair and eat your lunch of those

nice work xj

Rad, I like the look

unfortunately DB its no where near as tidy as yours. These are actually just overlaying the cut stock ones.

Swap ya engines though?????

Looks really nice. You know you will have to do the rear ones to match the front now!!!! When the template is sorted, I reckon you can sell copies of them.

looks shit hot me's thinking.. I tried to give you a call on Sunday, was gonna come drink your nz bitters... your phone was off and i cant remember how to get to your house.. next time..

callum007 wrote:looks shit hot me's thinking.. I tried to give you a call on Sunday, was gonna come drink your nz bitters... your phone was off and i cant remember how to get to your house.. next time..

Er yeah, phone is somewhere up Thommos! Got a new one so all go again.

Loving your work.

How strong is the bit of stock fender that you're keeping? I only ask because the aftermarket oned all seem to be complete replacements so I had originally assumed that was for strength (as having to make brackets for all the mundungus that attaches inside them isn't easy), but now I'm guessing not.

Might be interested in some of those templates for mine if you perfect them - someone once told me they had never had panel damage to persuade me to use my TJ rather than my XJ off-road, and now I'm thinking I may not trust that advice

Fen wrote:Loving your work.

How strong is the bit of stock fender that you're keeping? I only ask because the aftermarket oned all seem to be complete replacements so I had originally assumed that was for strength (as having to make brackets for all the mundungus that attaches inside them isn't easy), but now I'm guessing not.

Might be interested in some of those templates for mine if you perfect them - someone once told me they had never had panel damage to persuade me to use my TJ rather than my XJ off-road, and now I'm thinking I may not trust that advice

The stock ones have been left there to still take the innner guard (its double lined), and to bolt the new ones to... hang on, that doesnt sound right. Theres going to be a bracket at the front that uses the original mounting holes, another brackety platey thing at the rear using the original hole, and under the bonnet line there will be a couple of bolts through the new, and whats left of the old, fender.

Fen wrote:Might be interested in some of those templates for mine if you perfect them -

there actually wasnt a lot wrong with the templates, its how they were applied that was the issue.

Hey fella. Looking very flash. So now you have all that room under the guards should we be expecting to see some 35's under there soon?

Nice job, they look good and nice and strong..... but maybe too strong and it'll be the inner guards buckling now instead of the fenders when you bounce off banks. Side bars like DB's would help but probably dont keep with that jeep look

RJ wrote:Hey fella. Looking very flash. So now you have all that room under the guards should we be expecting to see some 35's under there soon?

Why? you after some 33's?

Sadam_Husain wrote:but maybe too strong and it'll be the inner guards buckling now instead of the fenders when you bounce off banks. Side bars like DB's would help but probably dont keep with that jeep look

1) I hear what your saying, but the dude i copied these off came down the same water rut as i did when busting my guards and his guards literally sliced through the bank. If we were doing rock-work, then i'd be a bit worried, but with what we do in the terrain were in, i "hope" it wont be a problem.

2) DB's aint a Jeep [still wanna swap donks with him though]

xj wrote:

RJ wrote:Hey fella. Looking very flash. So now you have all that room under the guards should we be expecting to see some 35's under there soon?

Why? you after some 33's?

Well theres a plan! Now how did you work that out.

RJ wrote:

xj wrote:

RJ wrote:Hey fella. Looking very flash. So now you have all that room under the guards should we be expecting to see some 35's under there soon?

Why? you after some 33's?

Well theres a plan! Now how did you work that out.

Twas the "Jeepi-mind-trick"

I hope your going to cut the sides off that front bar now.

MATT4U wrote:I hope your going to cut the sides off that front bar now.

RJ was over this arvo making sawing motions in front of each side of the bar accompanied with bbbrrrrrrrzzzzzzzzzooowwwww noises!

MATT4U wrote::twisted:

Oh dear lord you have no idea how relevant that pic is in relation to my earlier comment......

RJ...... you seeing this???????????????????????

Dam, that suit and golden chainsaw are better than my Batman gimp suit! where oh where can I get one?