Haspin? Whatcha wheelin?

 

Me jeep that was pictured and a trx450r

 

I've done a few little fab mods to my xj, here's one of them. The p.o. had cut off the top of the fan shroud and i couldn't find one anywhere (new or jy). So i made the top portion out of 16 gauge sheet metal. It was my first time welding and forming sheet metal, but i think it came out ok. What do you guys think?

 

Looks great!

 

Thanks!

 

my version of the lawn edging flares :

 

mind telling me how you mounted those up? I have a roll and I just took my flairs off and may be looking to put the edging on so I'm not such a cop magnet.

 

Those look just as good as the bw flat flares, but i bet you saved a lot of $$$.

 

yeah just some alluminum angle that I cut one side of to curve around the wheel opening to mount it to the truck then I used brake line inside the tube part of the edging to make it hold its shape

 

thanks! yeah they cost me a total of $36 im gonna throw some bedliner on it eventually tho they sunfade really fast

 

are you going to post a how to thread or something showing how you did it?

 

well its not my idea but heres a link to where I got the idea
https://www.cherokeeforum.com/f58/st...ares-so-50571/
the brake line is just my own little twist on it

 

thanks, i think im going to do something like that but use 3/4" EMT as the housing to make it strong and cover the top with sheet metal

 

thats all well and good but they wont flex and pop back into place like the lawn edging... lots of trees here on the tight northwest trails so thats important to me

 

I used some old (think they were from a '68) Mustang shock spacers to space my new front skid so the steering doesn't hit it... does that count? Oh- and some of the bolts I used are old bolts from a UH-60 Blackhawk, so kinda homebrew, right?