Quarter Panel Armor?

TAWL_BOY · Oct 18, 2013

At the OCBR I saw a handful of people running rear quarter tail light plating that continued over there upper quarter panel up to the door.

After some research I've came across BC corner guards and this thread:
http://www.classicbroncos.com/forums/showthread.php?t=95037&highlight=upper+quarter+panel&page=11

I'm guessing everyone's welding an upper quarter cover to the BC corners?

Who is currently making the upper quarter panel guards that fit well?

Any other tips or advice on the subject will be appreciated.

br0nc0xrapt0r · Oct 18, 2013

You saw how bad I beat on mine! just couldn't save my door :-X

sprdv1 · Oct 18, 2013

pnw broncos.... they're on facebook too

COSCAG00 · Oct 18, 2013

Here you go.

http://pnwbroncos.com/?p=1

stlo · Oct 18, 2013

PNW are the ones we had on our broncos there.....guy is cool and easy to work with.....there were a few that had there uppers welded to BC corners but im pretty sure BC is going to or already has stopped selling them..........

Pokey71 · Oct 18, 2013

They are worth every penny!

TAWL_BOY · Oct 18, 2013

stlo said:
...but im pretty sure BC is going to or already has stopped selling them..........

Why? They seem great.

Ethansdad73 · Oct 18, 2013

TAWL_BOY said:
Why? They seem great.

Fitment issues and cost i believe.

br0nc0xrapt0r · Oct 18, 2013

TAWL_BOY said:
Why? They seem great.

By themselves they fit like crap, big gap at the top. If you add in the bedside from pnw then you can make it look pretty good so its a non issue. To be fair BC didn't make them they had them outsourced but still it ended up being a big deal.

SpareParts · Oct 19, 2013

Mine are PNW's upper guards and rear guards, I formed the rest around the tail light housing myself. The PNW parts fit really well. They are working on a set that does wrap around the tail light section too. Below is a link to their Facebook page and a couple pictures of mine.

https://m.facebook.com/pnw.broncos.7

Yeller · Oct 19, 2013

I keep hoping that they will make some that are 1/8" it would be easier to form, hold up fine and weigh half as much...... weight is gravities friend and harder on parts.

SpareParts · Oct 19, 2013

Yeller said:
I keep hoping that they will make some that are 1/8" it would be easier to form, hold up fine and weigh half as much...... weight is gravities friend and harder on parts.

Light weight! Lol

chuck · Oct 19, 2013

I paid for the mold and had them made 3 times. Each time the cost doubled and the quality dropped. They send samples that looked good but when the order came they didn't fit so well. Most of the problem was on the upper front corner would stick up about 1/2" from the body. They are fine for rock crawler but not so good for looks. I have a few sets still without tail light holes.

JWMcCrary · Oct 19, 2013

If you can find some of the first run from BCB they fit fine. I have 2 sets of them and nothing wrong with the fit.

Kyle.malone · Oct 19, 2013

chuck said:
I paid for the mold and had them made 3 times. Each time the cost doubled and the quality dropped. They send samples that looked good but when the order came they didn't fit so well. Most of the problem was on the upper front corner would stick up about 1/2" from the body. They are fine for rock crawler but not so good for looks. I have a few sets still without tail light holes.

I have a set of the last set produced. I also have a set of tree huggers so they dont look as bad at the upper gap. Like Chuck said. They fit fine on crawlers. If you are going to run a tree hugger, buy the quarter guards from Chuck and get a full length hugger from PNW and just cut the top half off (to the curve) of the one from Chuck and weld the PNW upper to it. That is what I will probably do next.

TAWL_BOY · Oct 20, 2013

OK Chuck.

Tell em you need to see a good sample before you'll order any more.
Then I'll take that

Mountain Ram · Oct 20, 2013

Man I really want to add this protection to my crawler project, but those corner guards are high dollar...

Skiddy · Nov 20, 2017

anyone else have pics of rear body armor. thinking of going with PNW. just a little confused on tail light housings

sprdv1 · Nov 20, 2017

Skiddy said:
anyone else have pics of rear body armor. thinking of going with PNW. just a little confused on tail light housings

Just do it... call David since he already has it

fatboy · Nov 21, 2017

Skiddy said:
anyone else have pics of rear body armor. thinking of going with PNW. just a little confused on tail light housings

I have looked at these more than once but am afraid of the shipping cost from the west coast to the east coast.

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