so i was thinking about fabbing up some tube fenders like you see on tj's for my xj in the rear..and going with some fiberglass fender flares from rusty's off road on the front. does anyone have any pictures of tube fenders on cherokees? or any ideas? would this look good? bad?
thanks guys

 

work in progress

 

 

see i like that look alot.... but dont know if it would look right on a cherokee..i always see them on the larger crawler tj's. but not sure about the cherokee..do you have any pics of the finished product? did you put them in the rear too?

 

i plan on working on them a little this week end. the pics where took yesterday of the bent tubing. I will try to get atleast one tacked together. yes doing rears also

My inspiration (youll like these)
http://www.jeepforum.com/forum/f11/x...enders-432269/

 

man that is a BAD *** jeep. those look great both front and rear..i think im gonna start work on some too. another question. so i have to make the front fenders? or can i weld the bent tubing onto the stock fender on my jeep? just grind all the paint off the fender and its basically the same surface right?

 

kinda pointless to do a tube flare and weld it to the stock fender. tube flares are strong, front fenders arent. If you wanna do it without the armor you are guna have to take it back to the inner wheel well in a few places AND the unibody rail on the very front and back

 

oh ya. duh. that makes sense. what are you making for fenders out of. 1/4" or 1/8"? or something different...? and which do you think would be better? making new fenders? or taking the tubes all the way back? it probably wouldn't look as clean if i took them all the way back im thinking...at least in the front. because in the rear i was gonna meet the tube fender to my rockers and then take it to the rear bumper...and eventually start building an exocage off of them.

 

i used 10ga which i think is .135 so just a hair over 1/8. any more seems a little silly to me because no one is shooting at me with an AK. I have seen some the the other way and they really didint look that bad. I cant seem to find where i have seen them though.

I welded in2x6 .25 wall rockers that stick out 2in and my bumper sticks out 1.5 on the sides so it should looklike it ties together

bumper ( you can see sticks out a little from fender)



rockers (not a pic of rocker but best shows stick out

 

ok. well thanks alot. you have been alot of help! i was basically going blind into this... hopefully ill get some pics up when i start and you can tell me what you think

 

Yup any questions just ask or if you get ahead of me feel free to put up advice or mishaps

 

in the end after all fabrication how did you mount them because i am about to takle this project and idk to go with nut and bolt...self tappers...rivets or a mixture haha please let me know!...oh yea and how did you get the metal to bend with the shape of the body in the fabrication stage?

 

It looks like he took another small piece of steel and welded it at the angle needed

You could also get a press brake and bend it that way

 

Here's mine. I didnt make the fender armor or anything like that. Mine are completely removable and yet very strong. And I have around 100 bucks into them.

http://www.naxja.org/forum/showthread.php?t=1031797

 

what do u mean bend? i just want to know how he put the whole tube fender and all on to the stock fender...like did he bolt the armor and tube fender to the oem fender or what?