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Paragon Adventure Park
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Jeep Project CJ-7

An ongoing Budgeted Rebuild/Build up of a Rock
Crawling Machine.

Installing 23,000 Volt Offroad Lights


Lockers, Limited Slips &
other Differentials Explained

 

Ramp Travel Index
RTI / Ramp Travel Index What it is and how to calculate it, with and without the ramp.

Offroaders Guide to Gearing up for Offroad
From Basic Equipment to Well Equipped.  An extensive list guide to help you prepare your vehicle for the offroad.

 
 

 

 

 

 

Project Toyota FJ Cruiser
Body Mount Chop
Mud Flap Modification

 

After doing the Body Mount CHOP of those protruding front body mounts in order to safely clear my 33x12.50x17 Mickey Thompson MTZ's, I wanted to re-install my front mud flaps to help protect the body from flying rocks and debris that might get kicked up. 

Since the mud flap also has a protruding bulge that covers the body mount, I'd have to cut this back so my tire wouldn't hit.  The following is how I cut the cover and used rivets to make a higher clearance cover.

Below are a few pictures of the modified Body Mount.

 

   

The first thing to do was to decide where I was going to cut the cover.  I decided on a line that followed parallel to the face of the budge with a relief cut in the top.  I had also made a relief cut in the corner.

Here's the cut.
Test fit.  I bent the bulge back into the lower half.

I used several aluminum rivets to re-secure the new shape to the cover.

Since the mud flap material is soft and I didn't want the rivet to pull out, I put a piece of aluminum coil over the back so the rivet won't pull through.

Then, it was re-mounted.

 

Below is shots from the other side.  In these pics, you can see the relief cut in the corner. 

 

 

Same principle on this side, rivets backed by aluminum.

 

 

Reinstalled.   The mud flap is pretty close to the modified body mount so the tire clears easily and the flap does it's job to contain kicked up debris and mud.


 


 

   Questions? comments? Give me a shout:   
  

Ralph Hassel


 
  

 

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