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A closer look. Cut to form along with the wheel well of the YJ.
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I can't say enough about this workbench brought to you by FORD.
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Gettin ready to do the drilling on this drill press mounted securely to the Ford workbench.
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Go Tim, go! Drill away!
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We drilled these holes to the existing ones on the body so that we could hang and measure.
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OK, we needed to do a little "body work" so I grabbed the professional body work tool and "straightened" the body .
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Mounted, and ready to measure for the rest of the holes.
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These were the existing holes we mated to. These bolts will be hiding behind the flares, so they can be ugly!
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A little flex in the metal, but it will suck up to the body later.
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As you can see in my face, cleaning the flares = fun job!
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Scrub, and scrub. Found out that Ajax with bleach cleans them up good.
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OK..........this got old in a hurry!
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Tim takes time to pose. As you can see, we had to knock off a little of the plating on the inside.
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To get a flush mount with the bolts and washers, we needed to knock off some of the diamond plate. It's OK, we will paint later.
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New holes in the Jeep. No turning back now!
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Good shot of the hole pattern. Holes are drilled. Now we will mount and match these holes and drill in to the body.
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The holes after we mounted and removed the slider.
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There we go, mounted up with the stainless button head bolts.
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Tim gettin ready to drill the other side.
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Getting good at making holes.
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More body work required. Notice how the straight edge is not flush.
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Still not flush.
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There we go.
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Making the holes in the body using the holes that Tim drilled on the press as a pilot.
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Time to test the strength of the sliders.
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Both tires off the ground. I give it a passing grade!
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OK, we got a little sidetracked on a Bumperette Removal job that Tim was just dying to do.
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Lets get rid of these. By the way........not gas carriers!
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One down. Notice the bumperette removal tool on the ground.
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Another view. This will be painted the same color as the silders .
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OK, only one more weld to go.
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Grind.....grind..........grind.....
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Other side = OFF! No more bumperettes.
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Clean up!
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Hit it with the primer.
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Hmmmmmmm........gray works, maybe I'll leave it like this.
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Putting the flares back on. This was the worst part of the job .
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Weather stripping tape to fill the gaps left by the overlap of the sliders to the body.
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Complete with rock sliders.
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Not a bad job.
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Another view, driver side.
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Bumper complete, without bumperettes. Paint job looks good.
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Rear view, bumper.
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Cose-up of new & improved bumper.
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Passenger side slider view.
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