Building driver over fenders

[Grendel]

My trailer fenders are all fucked up from the PO, and now I've decided to make my Jeep track about 14" wider.

So, who built their own drive over fenders? Got any pictures? It's pretty obvious how to do it, but I figured I'd see what other people did and learn from their mistakes.

 

[Bebop]

No mistakes. Love them.
I've dropped complete axles on them by mistakes, barely scratched them.
You can pick the whole trailer up with a high-lift from them no problem.

 

[chaplinfj60]

do it just like bebop... thats about as easy as its gonna get...

 

[FordFascist]

I made a thread about my drive overs on the old site:

The material I used is a non structural channel iron known as 10 x 6.5 (aka 10 inches wide and 6.5 lbs per foot). Most metal distributors should have this. I got mine from PDM Steel in Santa Clara.

To make my fenders, I took some measurements and then pie cut the flat stock to make my bends. I used a 2" thick piece of scrap steel I had lying around and bought some 8" HF C-clamps and clamped the whole assembly to the frame of the trailer.

Next I used a floor jack to initiate the bend, and then used a come-along to bend the raw material to the same angle as on my template, which was a straight edge with an angle finder from HF.

 

[Scott Cee aka 2drx4]

Using that channel material sure seems easy.

 

[YotaAtieToo]

I had thought about getting some plate bent with 2 ~2" 90s and doing basically the same thing fordfaciast did.

I like how the buggy hauler fenders are a more gradual slope also, just to make it easier for broken rigs and or if it's muddy or icy.

 

[Sceep]

our fenders are mounted with a big old channel fore and aft welded to the frame. I just bent a piece of 1.75 to match the fender profile and welded it to those channels. I cut some expanded steel and welded it to the top of the tube for traction. Has worked fine for everything I;ve ever driven over it.

shitty zoomed in shit picture but you can kinddah see them.