I'm working on some tube frnder for my wrangler/cj (tonka) I have the tubeing bent and the rest of the frames made working on the skin now I'n gonna be useing 14ga. sheet metal. I made them a little bigger than most well wider I'd say. These are gonne be made from scratch no cutting of the oringinal femders at all. Pic to come real soon.

sounds pretty cool. Lets see some pics, i dont have the patience to wait for "soon" i need em now :D

Ok heres some pic's I'm still working on them I just started skining them. I used 1 inch tubeing and 1 inch angle iron for the top and back for the mounting areas and 1 1/2 flat stock for the front part along the grill for mounting well here are the pic's there will be more to come.
http://f1.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/sgtkarbo/album?.dir=/a816

VERY COOL!

I really like the way those are turning out:)

Tam :)

Super wide for a west coast wheeler! Are you just based in Fort Irwin, but from the east? Nice fabrication though :)

Yep I'm based here at Ft Irwin till dec. then going to Irac. But original from Mi. I have to make the fender wider to cover the tires at least the same amount the oringaly did which was 16 inches. I have full size axles under my jeep if i did the standard type tube fender the WHOLE tire would be out side the jeep. :) the police don't like that for some reason???

I can't speak for Mi laws, but here in CA there's no law regarding the front tires being covered, only the rear tires. Just an FYI.

'yall need to move to AZ. Here, trucks need to have their tires covered, cars and utility vehicles don't.

Well Goodtimes, today it was 104 degrees here and that's warm enough! :D

Those look good! I wanna learn how to weld!!!

Well Goodtimes, today it was 104 degrees here and that's warm enough! :D

That is hotter than it was here! If your going to put up with the heat anyway, may as well have some cool-ass loopholes in the laws to go with it! :D

it was like 135 in Irac the other day and I'll be the in Dec.

Dave,

Looking good. I'm glad you have a new project. Too bad I can't maintain my duties as "shop boy".

I understand about the requirement for the width of the fenders, but, they look really wide. I'll wait for the final picture before I say yea or nea.

Later bro!

JC

So how's the project coming? What'd up?

Been meaning to tell you something, not related to this post, but you don't receive public Jeep recognition in a modified XJ compared to a modified CJ. Leads me to find a way to keep the CJ in the family. However, the bad end of that thought is if that happened, I may not have a family anymore. Hmmmm, decisions!

Later bro!

JC

Ok here's an update, I got the fenders all skined now all I have to do is make them look pretty :) I add more pic's to the same link as above but here it is again. sorry this is taking so lond to finish but we are doing alot of training for deployment to Irac.
http://f1.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/sgtkarbo/album?.dir=/a816

:thumbs_up Looks good

OK I'm finialy getting around to finishing my tube fenders they should be done by the end of the day and I'll post some pic.s I've just been so busy at work and getting ready to deploy to Irac that I haven't had much time. So for the one's waiting to see the finished product hang in there :)

It's about DAMN time! :)

Maybe if you had the famous "Shop Boy" packing cold beer, things would have moved a little faster.

I'll give you a call soon. Need to tell you about Paragon and the XJ.

JC

Ok there done! painted and mounted, I sprayed a rubberized undercoating on the under side go figure :) and then painted the top side now the only problem is the frender are a bright color compared to the rest of the sun faded body but given time here in the desert it won't be long before they match. here in the link same as before I just added the latest pic.s
http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/sgtkarbo/album?.dir=a816&.src=ph

Very cool dave! They look great!! :D

Good luck in Iraq, return safely, and Thank You!!! :D

looks good gotta love that cali sun does do wonders to the paint. i was out at ft.irwin back in 95 and 96 they still call that stretch between base and barstow 10 mile good trails out there i lost a mustang out there once i thought i was in a jeep isnt it odd what the sun will do to you out there

those look awesome! good job :)

Looks sweet , I definately want to learn how to do that. :hijack:
I did my first welding today :tongue: . I had to weld some spring hangers on my jeep today, well actually my friend did it for me, but I messed around on some scrap and he showed me the basics. I got the basic feel of it and really see my self getting a welder in the future. ;)

Looks awesome! I wish I could weld some stuff like that. Someday though. Good luck in Iraq. You'll be in our thoughts. STAY SAFE!!!! :gun: