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So Matt ( lake_v2) bought these cool looking Steel back Fenders pieces for his YJ ..... And Yesterday he started to installed them and custom fit/cut them to his jeep.... Thought id share a few pictures.... and once they are completly installed ill post more...

Awesome

The rear fender armor is the Savvy yj fenders, was fast shipping and excellent price odered on a monday had them on wednesday.

Almost finished installing them, got them as blanks in preparation for a wheelbase stretch that is coming shortly.

Also ordered front tube fenders(hyline) and optima battery box from white rhino fab, should be getting those this week and installing/fabbing next week on those.

LED lights in the rear, right?

nope, no led's on mine. The spare tire carrier/mounts are about even with the stock taillights. That will keep me from banging those off the jeep. I had thought about the led's but didnt see the benefit for my application.

finally this weekend got the rear stretch completed. rear axle moved back a total of 3"ish. moved the spring hangers and redrilled the leaf perches for the stretch.

now the wheelbase sits at 98", the jeep is also lower by 0.5". moving the rear hanger corrected the shackle angle in the back and lowered the back, in the front i took off the super duper long shackles and put some 0.5" lift shackles on, to match the rear height.

to make room for the rear axle moving back, modified the stock gas tank skid and tank, made an indentation in the tank to allow the pumpkin to not hit the tank.

will post some pics later today.

next on the to do list is tube fenders, front suspension seats, and repaint.

oh mail delivery today reminded me of one more thing on the to do list....

got a rad designs rail shifter to mount/wire in for full control of trans when needed.

THE GAS TANK

MORE PICS

Looking damm good! Like the battery box, Who made it?

white rhino fab, makes the battery box. It was actually intended for a 34/78 red top optima, i had to modify it quite a bit to fit the larger yellow top. It was worth it though, was 35ish bux.

one issue was the quality of the cuts. the guys at wrf need to do some maintenance on their plasma machine, the cuts were all with an angle \ and the start/stop points of the plasma on the smaller cuts had nicks in them. also for the top plate hold down bolts he should drill them instead of using the plasma, the holes were just fugly...

other than that lol... once its installed/painted you can't tell.

Very nice.... now let's go wheel it!

NEW TUBE FENDERS

MORE PICTURES TO COME SOON.....

New update ....

Updated pictures, got just about everything completed. have a few small things to do.

[img]http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a400/lake_v2/stretch.jpg[/img]

Looks killer!!!! Good lob Matt!!