 If you wheel your Jeep TJ long enough you *will* bend a stock fender. Unless you’ve got some fancy bumper that sticks out there to protect them of course. They are out there in a pretty vulnerable spot, and once they are bent they will never look perfect again. Oh well, I guess that’s a good excuse to buy tube fenders! Anyways, I figured I would get mine looking as good as I can for now, and this is how I did it. |
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Tools:
Hi-Lift Jack
Block of Wood (12″ long or so)
Parts:
n/a
Time:
10 minutes
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 1: This is a real quick and easy one folks. Just grab your hi-lift and your block of wood. Place the block of wood under the fender lengthwise to increase the hi-lift’s footprint, and jack it up until the fender bends back to shape. I can’t really tell you exactly how much to lift it because it will depend on how badly it’s bent, etc. On mine I lifted it up so the fender was bent upwards a little PAST level. I let it sit this way for about 15 seconds to fatigue the material into shape a bit. Once I let off the hi-lift it was as straight as can be! Note: This picture was taken for reference only.. the passenger side was the one that was bent. |
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Well, I’m happy with the results and so was my buddy Kyle (o-min). He liked the results enough that he asked me to do his as well, and his turned out just as nice. Hope this helps you guys out!
Please leave a comment if you used this article for your Jeep. Leave a comment with any findings you discovered that I did not talk about as well. I would love to hear from you, good or bad! If you have any questions or would like to talk about a different topic, go ahead and post up on the myjeeptj.com forums!
-Davin (Raskull)
May 31st, 2009 at 8:00 pm
Yep – I just did this to my TJ this weekend. I’ll be trying the hi-lift technique out.