Fixing fender flares

I got my M715 into the shop last week and have started accumulating parts. One of my rear fender flares was so bad it ed me off every time I looked at it.

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After doing reasherch on the site it seemed rear fender flare replacemt was a real pain. That being said I have little to no body work experience. But I had an idea today at work. I cut a 1' x half section of 36" c900 pipe (extra thick walled pvc pipe) I used a 4' x 3/4" peice of all thread and my good side fender as a template to get the radius just rite. Then every clamp I could find and a little hammering.

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I was pleased with the results for 45 minutes of effort and parts on hand. It's not 100% but it's 90%.

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Awesome job!
I kind of did the same thing when I had a hit-and-run on my wrangler in a parking lot.
Submitted the repair shop cost to insurance. Got $1000 check in the mail.
I took a couple of c-clamps and a piece of square tube steel. Pulled the dent right out myself. $1000 for upgrades on the m715.

Great job! you can probably market pieces of that pipe to zone members :happy10:

That is a remarkable job! Thanks for posting this with pics...looks like it never happened!

looks real good, get a rubber mallet and hit that back end in a little and she be good as gold.

Beautiful transformation!!

Wow. You do nice work.

If its too perfect...

its Not an M 715 :)

a few battle scars are required , here and there.


Looks Great !

I cant believe what you started out with.

WOW !

nice !!!

Amazing job!
I used a similar method with mine, but my flairs were not close to being that bad.
Great work.:)

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Originally Posted by Flingarrows

Great job! you can probably market pieces of that pipe to zone members :happy10:

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That was my first thought too! A tool rental program...

Great solution! How do you come to have giant pipe sitting around?

That looks great! Glad that you were able to get it done.

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Originally Posted by Subybaja

That was my first thought too! A tool rental program...

Great solution! How do you come to have giant pipe sitting around?

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Ditto on the large pipe...

36" ..

Wow...

That's a culvert !!

20 feet please...

Any possibility of delivery ?

Rained a lot here lately.. sure could use a couple of those

Fantastic work. Will shamelessly steal your idea :rolleyes:

Thanks guys glad you like it. It worked much better than I expected. I'll put it up into storage in shop attic and if any zoners in the area want to borrow it drop me a line. I run work for a heavy civil construction company and we recently installed a bunch of the 36" C900 for the trunk line into new sewer treatment plant and we always end up with short sections that get tossed so cut piece. This is what it looked like going in.

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I cant believe how much I have already learned from the zone and will be hitting you guys up with some serious questions soon.

Hit away, hats why we are here.

Nice pipe!!

If you run across any of that stuff in 16", grab it. Guys running H1 beadlock rims like to replace the mag beadlocks with 6" sections of it.
http://www.trailworthyfab.com/Hummer...VC-Insert.html

Still a great thread!

Looks great!! It’s amazing what you can do with a big enough hammer on the old steel. A friend once restored a M37 and his front fenders were beat. They got beat some more and ended up looking really great. I straightened up a M100 that the rear panel was crushed down to about 8” tall. It wasn’t perfect when I finished but it was pretty good. Don’t be afraid to get out there and work on dents and sings.