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Some better pics with less snow.
Front axle stretch (1 Viewer)
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Just found this thread (as it was bumped to the top). Nice work man, clean (relatively) 60
Looking good Mike 
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Looking good Mike
Thanks Kurt, you were a great help.
your axle turned out great mike! it was nice to see you were driving your 60 around today haha
Yeah I like the fenders to and I need to get some soon
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The front fender flares are cut from some Jeep flares I picked up. I mounted aluminum angle brackets directly to the fender with well nuts and used stainless allen bolts to hold the flare to the brackets. On the rear, that's another story. Its a lot of aluminum plate, lots of seam seal and about 700 (I'm not exagerating) pop rivets toped off with Herculiner. The flares are mounted to some 1/8" ABS sheeting that I bent into a 90 degree piece using a heat gun and a vice. I cut reliefs into the side that mounts to the Cruiser to facilitate the curve of the fender and riveted that directy to the body and a separate piece to the door. Then I riveted some 3" rubber flares that I got from J.C. Whitney to that ABS flange. The original lip that went around the rear fender is entirely gone; it was all rust. The bottom of the rear quarter panel is also gone, replaced with the same aluminum plate, seam seal, rivets and Herculiner. I welded some nerf bars to the frame beneath the quarter panel to protect my work and hung a mud flap from that. I'm all done with body work. If it rusts in two, I'm headed to Phoenix to get another rig.
Any trouble out of this setup? I've thought about doing it to the rear axle if I end up putting newer truck brakes on my front axle.
