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| Puebloswatcop |
 Aug 21 2025, 07:53 PM
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Senior Member  Group: Members Posts: 1,662 Joined: 27-December 14 From: Mineola, Texas Member No.: 18,258 Region Association: Southwest Region  |
Today I decided to start working on the rocker covers, converting them to fit the new fender flares. To see what I had to work with I temporarily hung the passenger rocker cover. You can see in the picture that there is about an inch and a half to bend and reshape. Not only does it have to come out to match, but it needs to go up as well. And there is an angle that needs to be bent to facilitate the angle in the fender. Time to bust out the pattern making cardboard.
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| Puebloswatcop |
Aug 21 2025, 08:01 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1,662 Joined: 27-December 14 From: Mineola, Texas Member No.: 18,258 Region Association: Southwest Region |
I used the door opening as my beginning reference point and ran the patern to the rear opening of the fenderwell. Then I included where the horizontal bend had to be. Then transferred it onto a piece of 18 guage sheet metal and let the cutting (and cursing) commence. In the forst photo you can see the horizontal bend. Unfortunately I don't have a metal brake, so I improvise using a vice and a hammer. After cutting out my metal for the top shape, I had to do the unthinkable and cut a perfectly good rocker cover.....
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| Puebloswatcop |
Aug 21 2025, 08:04 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1,662 Joined: 27-December 14 From: Mineola, Texas Member No.: 18,258 Region Association: Southwest Region |
Since I knew I would have to continually install and remove the rocker cover, I invented some very expensive tools to make it easy...okay, i didn't invent them, Craftsman did, but the did come in very handy
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| Puebloswatcop |
Aug 21 2025, 08:15 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1,662 Joined: 27-December 14 From: Mineola, Texas Member No.: 18,258 Region Association: Southwest Region |
Then I bent the rocker cover at the 2 cuts to about where it would line up at the completion of the new frame pieces. You can see that it pretty much follows where the new frame sits, but of course it will have to be extended upward to batch up the body line. At the bottom, it lines up perfectly with the corner of the new metal and the rocker. At the top (Red Arrow) you can see that there is still some trimming to do to match up the body line .
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| Puebloswatcop |
Aug 21 2025, 08:18 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1,662 Joined: 27-December 14 From: Mineola, Texas Member No.: 18,258 Region Association: Southwest Region |
You can see the bottom of the new meat lines up exactly where the rocker cover lines up at the bottom corner of the new metal.
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| Puebloswatcop |
Aug 21 2025, 08:21 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1,662 Joined: 27-December 14 From: Mineola, Texas Member No.: 18,258 Region Association: Southwest Region |
And with that I called it a night. but the new framed part of the flare is starting to take shape. Sorry for the first pic. My phone seemed to want to focus on my I-25 sign instead of the car...
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