fox128

I cut out my fenders and wasn't a big fan of having mud and gravel thrown all over my hood and windshield constantly. I also didn't want to drop $450 on bushwackers. So I made my stock flares work.

It was fairly simple, I just used 3 pieces of angle iron and some bolts. I had to cut the front part of the flare to match how I cut my fender, but it doesn't look too bad. The flares are higher up than stock but fit pretty decent overall.

How it turned out:

plowboy 99

Looks good. Nice work. Are you going to do anything where the body lines don't line up?

ct67_72

I like it! take a pic of the whole thing if its done. I assume you did the rear also?

dirtmod0

looks good I dont like mud on my stuff either!!

CherokeeCountry

I hate mud on my XJ too. I just get plain furious every time I get done wheeling and hop out to find some mud on it.

fox128

Not for now. I havn't come up with a way to do that yet.

Actually, I'm not doing the rear. I didn't have to cut the fenders. When I switched to rustys 6.5 springs it pushed my axle back a couple inches so I have plenty of clearance to the front of the tire, and I'll just do a little trimming on the front of my back bumper. Then I'll set my bumpstops so the tire won't hit the top of the fender.

I don't mind getting it muddy when I'm wheeling, but I drive on gravel roads all the time and without flares I get piles of small rocks on my hood and sand and mud on the windshield if its wet. But I guess if I ran stock size tires with stock offset wheels it wouldn't be a problem.

CherokeeCountry

Ah, I gotcha. And I was just playing, hope that was evident. The flares look pretty darn good. I just took mine off, like how it looks and how it throws mud in 12 feet rooster tails off road haha.

brookhart63

Hey fox128! Just hopped on this website and and the first thread I click on is the Guy that referred me. Flares look sweet even though your trim job was clean

fox128

Haha cool man! did you get the leafs on yet?