XJhavesexJ

Alright ya'll I had a moment of drunken redneck genius last night. A while back I trimmed past the pinch weld on my rear fenders like a dingus. leaving open space all the way around between the outer and inner sheets of metal. And now I've got an idea.

Kinda hard to explain over the web but...

I'm thinking I can trim ONLY the inner fender metal, leave the outside panel in tact, creating an obvious gap where the inner fender would trimmed up more than the outside sheet of metal. And THEN I could cut and fold the OUTER metal inward and up, therefore covering the gap, as well as giving me more clearence.

The only thing I'm worried about is the bottom parts on the left and right side of the wheel since it makes kind of a little box down there. I'm gonna draw on it with a sharpie and see what I can come up with.

HS00XJ

http://www.jeepforum.com/forum/f11/t...ackers-100264/

Atmos

so you're talking about cutting the inner wheel well practically flush, then bending the outside metal inward to fill the gap. I don't see this working exactly they way you've got it in your head, but I'm interested to see pictures of what you come up with

Atmos

I stand corrected, that's not too bad lookin

HS00XJ

Its been done a million times a million different ways.just gitta get creative and use what is available (weld rivits tuff stuff foam) that guy in the link hid the ugky with ugly treewakers.

XJhavesexJ

LOL people have already done it, that just totally killed my ego haha.

I can't really tell what that guy did with the back lower portion of the quarter panel? And what the heck is treewaker? Lol

HS00XJ

mosthttp://www.jeepforum.com/forum/f11/cut-fold-rear-lower-quarter-panels-right-way-1007865/ people do this.....bushwacker flares

HS00XJ

http://www.jeepforum.com/forum/f11/c...t-way-1007865/

XJhavesexJ

That looks a little more complicated than I feel like getting into right now lol

HS00XJ

Its really not bad if you've ever used a grinder.It just takes a bit of time.

RubberSideUp

I like the gap in the seams. Helps the water pour out when it gets sunk. LOL

XJhavesexJ

Yeah but it will also cause rust from the inside out

Teephphah

I've got some Notch Custom XJ-Max flares I'm waiting to put on until someone in my local jeep club with some welding skillz can help out. Those call for cutting the outter fender shorter, then folding the inner fender out to meet them, then welding the tabs from the inner to the outter. Kind of the opposite of what has been done in this thread.

That's kind of beside the point, right now, I'm just wondering if I might be able to get away with pop rivets instead of welding . . . if so, I might be able to make it out wheeling with the club this weekend.

Aww, shoot. Nope. Don't think that'll work. Won't be any material to rivet through when I fold the inner tabs to meet the outter fender. . .

Shee-oot.