Removing J-Truck fender flares

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Removing J-Truck fender flares

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I've decided that I want to remove my J-Trucks fender flares. They are damage and rusted, but if any of you guys would be interested I would be willing to work with you. I do not know how to remove these flares. From what I have read they are spot welded in. What is the best method of removing these?
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Rear flares?

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Depending on how salvage-able they are, most want a half inch to an inch of the fender sheet metal attached to it. If they are rusty and dented, it's probably not worth the extra effort, though. Super cool of you to offer though! Do you have any pics?
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not very good ones, but I will post what I have
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Ya know, it's not perfect, but its in very good condition for my part of the country. If you want to cut the front fenders, I'd suggest you just get some Wagoneer front fenders and cut those. They bolt on. For the rears, the bed seams look worse than the flares. It's a lot of work to remove the flares without cutting some of the bed side with them. If you want to go ahead, I suggest you lift the bed off and turn it upside down to get at the spot welds with a spot weld cutter. It'll take a while.
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Here's a photo of what I'm going for. This guy claims these are 37's with a 4" lift.

http://i.imgur.com/oSHUnvs.jpg
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I agree with finding waggy flares for the front. If your gonna cut the rears too you will be fabbing metal anyways so you may as well cut them so someone can still use them. I saw this done to a truck this weekend and it made me a little sad. Image

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I think the flares give a jtruck it's character, that and the brow of course. But if they're toast, why not remove them. It is a nice thought to surgically remove them and transplant on another rig, but honestly I've never seen a post for just flares in the wanted section.

Here's another example that looks decent I think, Cappa's J2000 on 37s:
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tedlovesjeeps71 wrote:I agree with finding waggy flares for the front. If your gonna cut the rears too you will be fabbing metal anyways so you may as well cut them so someone can still use them. I saw this done to a truck this weekend and it made me a little sad. Image

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Looks like they cut the front bumper on that one too which I am not a fan of. I want to do this to clear some bigger tires on a tight budget, and to tell you the truth I feel pretty bummed about it too. That's why I offered to give/sell them to another J-truck that could use them so that I can't say it was all for nothing
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They are spot welded .

They don't look that rusty, and the damage can be fixed as easy as removing them. I'd rather have crappy flares than none at all personally.
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v8vendetta wrote:
tedlovesjeeps71 wrote:I agree with finding waggy flares for the front. If your gonna cut the rears too you will be fabbing metal anyways so you may as well cut them so someone can still use them. I saw this done to a truck this weekend and it made me a little sad. Image

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Looks like they cut the front bumper on that one too which I am not a fan of. I want to do this to clear some bigger tires on a tight budget, and to tell you the truth I feel pretty bummed about it too. That's why I offered to give/sell them to another J-truck that could use them so that I can't say it was all for nothing
You could keep the flares and buy a body lift. They are relatively inexpensive.


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v8vendetta wrote:
tedlovesjeeps71 wrote:I agree with finding waggy flares for the front. If your gonna cut the rears too you will be fabbing metal anyways so you may as well cut them so someone can still use them. I saw this done to a truck this weekend and it made me a little sad. Image

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Looks like they cut the front bumper on that one too which I am not a fan of. I want to do this to clear some bigger tires on a tight budget, and to tell you the truth I feel pretty bummed about it too. That's why I offered to give/sell them to another J-truck that could use them so that I can't say it was all for nothing
Somebody cut a couple sections out of the flares and made them taller and longrr to clear bigger tires and keep the flares. Takes 2 sets of flares to make one but looks really cool! Pretty sure it was Cherokee jim.

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Wanna come down here this weekend? I've got a set of cut fenders on a Wag that I'd trade for an un-cut set of J-truck fenders. They'd be going on my rock-crawler so the rust isn't an issue, for me. Might have a set of un-cut Wag fenders, too but they might be rustier than you'd want to deal with. I'd throw 'em in for free if they're still around, though.
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That seems like an interesting proposition. Unfortunately the only thing I have that would be able to haul fenders is the J-20, and the tires are shot on it. Happen to have any 16" tires or 8x6.5 wheels w/tires? :lol:
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By the way, your profile pic is related to this topic lol
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There is a guy in Hemet, CA selling pairs of good front quarter panels with good flares. Lycanthorpe on the Facebook page.
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Every time someone cuts widetrack flares off a puppy dies...
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v8vendetta wrote:That seems like an interesting proposition. Unfortunately the only thing I have that would be able to haul fenders is the J-20, and the tires are shot on it. Happen to have any 16" tires or 8x6.5 wheels w/tires? :lol:
Unfortunately, the only 8-lugs I have are on my crawler. Forgot I have plans this weekend but, I might be able to make a trip up that way in a couple weeks. I'll try to get some pics of the fenders I've got so you can determine if you'd even want them. They're still on a Wag so I'd need a day to get them removed, as well. I can't help with the rear fenders, sadly.
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Hey, I'm not in a rush at all. Just shoot me a PM and we can get something worked out
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