carter2772
Bronco Guru
I need you steel guru's to tell me what you think.. If i do this right, without screwing up, I think i can make both my rear quarter panels for the cost of one sheet of steel, 4x8 = around 25 bucks. The issue is obviously they are not flat pieces of metal, and they do have that body line in them behind the wheel opening.
Since i moved my rear axle back, and will be running 40's there will be a lot of the metal cut out. I figure i will only need no more than 5" of that body line showing. So really that would be the biggest challenge. I still have the old quarter panels, so i have a template than i can get screwed up. The other issue would be making the whole panel have that roll to it. Again, there will be a bunch of material cut out, so i don't think this will be too hard to do.
What do you Steel Masters think? Am I crazy? If I can do this, it will cost 30 bucks or so, and my time. Otherwise, the two panels new will cost 180 plus shipping...
Someone have a metal break that can do a piece of metal 4 foot 3 inch in length?
Here is where i traced the picture..
http://www.wildhorses4x4.com/product/Quarter_Panel_Skin_66-76_Driver/More_Steel_Body_Parts
My drawing of what i think my cut will look like.
Since i moved my rear axle back, and will be running 40's there will be a lot of the metal cut out. I figure i will only need no more than 5" of that body line showing. So really that would be the biggest challenge. I still have the old quarter panels, so i have a template than i can get screwed up. The other issue would be making the whole panel have that roll to it. Again, there will be a bunch of material cut out, so i don't think this will be too hard to do.
What do you Steel Masters think? Am I crazy? If I can do this, it will cost 30 bucks or so, and my time. Otherwise, the two panels new will cost 180 plus shipping...
Someone have a metal break that can do a piece of metal 4 foot 3 inch in length?
Here is where i traced the picture..
http://www.wildhorses4x4.com/product/Quarter_Panel_Skin_66-76_Driver/More_Steel_Body_Parts
My drawing of what i think my cut will look like.
![P3010213.jpg](http://i356.photobucket.com/albums/oo7/carter2772/74%20EB%20408%20Stroker/68%20EB%20Crawler%20Rebuild/P3010213.jpg)