Front Fender Trim Write Up (Retaining the stock flare)

[mwm]

Looks good bud, I just did pretty much the same thing on my 96 Last weekend....Defintily looks better then stock with big tires.....

Rick

hahahahaha looks great man....hahahahahaha

 

[cwlongshot]

Nice job and great write up!!! Buy if I could comment, you NEED TO address the front inner pinch seam!! Its a very effecient tire slicer under articulation!! The rear pinch seam is safe as the rear will not articulate that far with the rear leafs and bump stops.

You need to notch them:

Apply some good construction adhesive:

Beat them flat and smooth some more adhesive over the top:

Then paint with Rustolium of ruberized under coating.


BTW I have done both the front and rear on my MJ. Both using factory flairs trimmed to fit.

CW

 

[53guy]

Nice job and great write up!!! Buy if I could comment, you NEED TO address the front inner pinch seam!! Its a very effecient tire slicer under articulation!! The rear pinch seam is safe as the rear will not articulate that far with the rear leafs and bump stops.

CW

Yeah, I did notice that when I did mine. I didn't notch them because I didn't have time, however, I did bend them in on the sharp edges, so its still there, but not sharp, so maybe it'll just chunk my tires instead of slicing them, lol, but look close at the pictures and you'll see a bit of hammering up there.

 

[53guy]

I'm about to try this with my xj and has any one done the rears yet as i'd like to move them up some as well

Soon, soon I will have the writeup done. Keep posted here and I'll make sure I put the link on this thread as well. I'm not going to be trimming a whole lot of of the rear, so don't expect much, but I will do a write up.

 

[jeep01xj]

Flippin Awesome write up- Very nice Job.

Love the work that you do. You have a very nice Jeep.

 

[53guy]

wow, i have been trying to figure out if i want to remove my flares and trim completely or tj flares, but i liked the stock look...I have found the solution. That looks really good in my opinion!

AWESOME!! I can sleep much better now knowing I saved someone from putting tj flares on their xj....lol. I can't stand the way they look.

 

[XJVenom]

I agree - GREAT writeup! Thanks for putting all of that information together for us.

 

[reliablestv]

i trimed my fenders as soon as i read your writeup. love the pics i hate reading directions. i feel it makes you less of a man to read directions. i dont ask for directions when im lost either

 

[53guy]

Yup, I'm a beliver in pictures. To be honest, I rarely read threads without pictures, just kinda skim them to see if anything is interesting. =)

 

[Rambo]

i trimed my fenders as soon as i read your writeup. love the pics i hate reading directions. i feel it makes you less of a man to read directions. i dont ask for directions when im lost either

x2 just did mine like yours last week

Thanks, lookin forward to the rear write up...


:smoker:

 

[FitchVA]

awesome writeup i like how you kept more of the front flare than i did. but i just couldn't deal with that extra open space from where the flare kicked out around the lower 1/4 panel. so i cut from there. but yours looks awesome.

there's not a lot of room to move the rear flares up unless you span the rear door.

i lined mine up as close to the door seam as possible...

 

[53guy]

For all those who've been waiting, I finally finished the rear. Here is the linky http://www.naxja.org/forum/showthread.php?t=90022 Thanks guys!

 

[53guy]

Ok, so I took the wife out found a some logging trails and we did some test flex. So far I haven't been able to scrub in the rear and I need to do a bit of tuning to the fender liner in the front. In the front, I don't rub any metal at all and like I said, I don't have the weight to fully stuff my rear end. I think if I connected my sway bar in the front I might be able to flex it enough to stuff it, but I didn't have the time. I removed all the rubber bump stop I could with my knife, but I didn't have the tools to remove it all the way, but I'm down to just the Full Traction bumpstop now! Its so nice to be able to go over anything without rubbing any more!!! So if you've been thinking about trimming and you haven't convinced yourself that going fenderless is the way to go and you hate the look of bushwackers, I definately think these trim jobs are the way to go for you. I kept the stock flares, I kept the stock hardware, I kept the stock look, and gained enough room to fully stuff my BFG 35x12.50's to the point that I couldn't flex any farther without crazy long brake lines and limiting straps. As you can see in the pictures, my springs were out of the seats, so if that's not enough flex for you, I'm not sure what else you need, so I hope these write ups were helpful for you and gave you the reassurance that you needed to go and do a bit of trimming! Good luck and good wheeling!

Hope you enjoyed all the pictures and if you need more, please let me know and I'd be happy to take some more for you if you can't find them on my fototime site (linky found in my signature).

 

[sp4mike]

Looks great. Cant wait to see it in person.

 

[53guy]

yeah mike, I'm finally in the clear....I can run all the trails now disco'ed! arty:

 

[sp4mike]

It's too bad they closed Conway. It was a nice trail ride. Hope to see you at Crozet though.

 

[outlawjeep]

Dude that things is pretty nice now. Wanna help me do mine?



Ray

 

[ckh550]

Great looking rig all the way around.

 

[XJumpmaster]

Thanks for the write up! It definitely made things easier! I trimmed 2" on the front, havent done the back yet.(I'll wait for bigger tires to do that)

Any time you can convince some of yer pilots to fly to Utah, I'm pretty sure we've got some guys that would love to jump a 53! Maybe hit Moab after the Jump! LOL

Thanks again!
Josh

 

[gregmondro]

awesome dude. I'm thinking of doing that on mine. I'm already trimmed and I'm not too keen on the look of TJ flares on many XJs