I've been busy working on some new tube fenders and hoop. I wanted to build something that would follow the hood, so that's what I set out to do. I used 1.75DOM and then some 3/16" smooth plate on the outside. (cutting out the pieces with a sawzall is not my idea of fun) I'll skin the inside with 1/8" smooth plate. I wanted to tie into the hoop but also wanted to be able to remove the fenders without cutting so I took a piece of 1.5DOM and welded to the hoop for the hood bar to slip over. This enables me to remove the fenders by first removing the winch plate. I'll get some more pics this week. The fenders are done, save for adding some putty and smoothing it all out real nice like. I also still need to skin the inside (fender wells).... and plan to come up with some sort of removable flare made from Kydex or something similar. I got the idea in my head.
I don't happen to have a press brake, so this is my way of bending flats. Works great on small stuff!
The front hoop bent and cut ready to weld on. Alignment looks great.
Driver side installed and hooked to the hoop. I'll drill holes and either use a tractor pin or bolt to secure the hood bar to the hoop.
Passenger side installed. Front hoop is tilted a smidgen forward because I don't have the front bumper on. The tabs from the bumper/stinger I do next will put it back to plum.
You can notice in this pic I sloped the hood down quite a bit. I really like how it turned out.
more to come...