Fiberglass Fender mounting kit
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Re: Fiberglass Fender mounting kit
Autofab still sells these, it prevent/precut ready for welding and fitment.
If you talk to John he will tell you the vast amount of fender options, coupled with tweaked Broncos would make it impossible to sell this setup assembled, it would likely never fit. Needs to be built on the truck. The prebuilt setup he sells Is a great start and a great price point.
If you talk to John he will tell you the vast amount of fender options, coupled with tweaked Broncos would make it impossible to sell this setup assembled, it would likely never fit. Needs to be built on the truck. The prebuilt setup he sells Is a great start and a great price point.
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Re: Fiberglass Fender mounting kit
The pics of the bronco at Desolate is my close friends bronco. The work they did is beautiful. But it is a lot of labor time to do these and they are not cheap because of that. These COULD be a production item but the buyer would have to weld on the fender tabs depending on what brand/bulge of the fender. As far as the structure attaching to the firewall and core support, the type of fender being mounting will not effect it.
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Re: Fiberglass Fender mounting kit
Hey, nice bronco. Desolate took almost 2 weeks building these as it is very labor intensive
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Fiberglass Fender mounting kit
Building the tube structure is not Labor intensive.. all the extra sheet metal work is. If it's going to be a fender mount kit.. all you will need, is the structure itself, and the tabs for starter solenoid and fuse box. When you buy autofab fender washers, you get them with tabs .essexjet wrote:Hey, nice bronco. Desolate took almost 2 weeks building these as it is very labor intensive
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Re: Fiberglass Fender mounting kit
I’m bringing this back from the dead. Sorry
I have a build going in Tx and need all the short cuts I can get. Don’t mind paying for a quality cage but would like the DIY things like this and I’m mediocre fab guy. Should I bug the Desolute guys weekly?
I have a build going in Tx and need all the short cuts I can get. Don’t mind paying for a quality cage but would like the DIY things like this and I’m mediocre fab guy. Should I bug the Desolute guys weekly?
Fiberglass Fender mounting kit
I built these ones. Not the prettiest. Maybe over built. I used 1.25x.120 dom. I have about 3-4 hrs per side on these.
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Re: Fiberglass Fender mounting kit
Inner tube supports can be built very cheaply from simple .095 HREW- there’s zero reason for DOM or 4130 unless you just really want to spend the money. You can slay a weekend easily making a nice set. I would make the inner structure pretty damn strong as the factory fender is a structural part oddly enough. If it were me buying tubing I’d buy 3/4” and buy a couple sticks because it’s super cheap and if you mess up or revise your design you dont want to be stuck just because you ran out of $0.50ft material.
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Re: Fiberglass Fender mounting kit
Inner tube supports can be built very cheaply from simple .095 HREW- there’s zero reason for DOM or 4130 unless you just really want to spend the money. You can slay a weekend easily making a nice set. I would make the inner structure pretty damn strong as the factory fender is a structural part oddly enough. If it were me buying tubing I’d buy 3/4” and buy a couple sticks because it’s super cheap and if you mess up or revise your design you dont want to be stuck just because you ran out of $0.50ft material.
http://www.vintageironfabworks.com
77- "Victoria"
71- "Annie" Halfcab
73- "Heloise"
96- "Cheryl"
95- Marilyn (F150)
77- "Victoria"
71- "Annie" Halfcab
73- "Heloise"
96- "Cheryl"
95- Marilyn (F150)