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Old Apr 9, 2011 | 12:02 AM
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Glassworks fenders on!

Well have had these sittin at my dads for about 6 months now along with a set of fiberwerx bedsides and I finally decided to put the front fenders on!
Heres some shots of it happening!
Just the fenders

Tearin down the front end!

One side up!

One side up one stock just for comparison

Both up!! and I ptm'd the grill too haha

One of the wheel wells completed


The install wasn't too bad just time consuming it took me about 10 hours or so by myself and I'm sure it'd be a lot easier with two people. But I'm still not done yet, the passenger side rubs a little when the door opens so I still need to sand it some then repaint, and I'm not completely happy with the way the wheel wells are covered so I might go back and touch it up a little bit.

Tips of advice!
1. Use two people haha
2. Penetrating Oil! 13 years of dirt made the rocker bolts pretty hard to get out
3. Lots of patience, If you smoke, drink, dip, etc.. This is not the time to decide you wanna quit I realized this when I was running to a gas station at 4 in the morning ha
4. GLOVES, MASK, GLASSES. (I learned this the hard way)

Carnage Report
1. One stripped bolt
2. Three broken drill bits
3. Possible broken hand (wind blew and dropped the hood on my hand)
4. Fiberglass in my eye
5. Enough fiberglass in my lungs to build a second set of fenders
6. One broken antenna cover
 
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Old Apr 9, 2011 | 12:19 AM
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Originally Posted by pizzaman711
3. Lots of patience, If you dip, etc.. This is not the time to decide you wanna quit and watch where you spit, you don't want to sit or roll in that **** at 4 in the morning
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looks good, when are you going to do the bed sides?
 
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Old Apr 9, 2011 | 12:37 AM
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dude that is sexy i want a set now haha and it makes the tow mirrors look 10x better imo looks good man
 
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Old Apr 9, 2011 | 12:40 AM
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Oddly I agree it makes the chevy tow mirrors look less out of place.


Looks good, get the final touches in on it and enjoy it
 
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Old Apr 9, 2011 | 12:57 AM
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nice work.

but you need a real camera haha
 

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Old Apr 9, 2011 | 12:58 AM
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looks good, when are you going to do the bed sides?
haha im pretty sure by the time 5am rolled around I really stoped caring about finding the bottle when I had to spit ha and needless to say my moms gonna be pissed when she sees the garage floor haha.

As for bedsides hopefully sometime in may once school is out so I'll have more time. Hopefully anyways ha and yea it makes the mirrors look a whole lot less outta place I love the new look and thanks guys!
 
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Old Apr 9, 2011 | 01:02 AM
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SWEET! I didn't know you had these. Those bedsides are whats gonna be fun to put on! haha

You ever thought about taking the visor off and see how it would look?
 
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Old Apr 9, 2011 | 01:10 AM
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Haha yea not lookin forward to doin the besides just having them on haha and yea the visors coming off soon and I'm mounting one of the prerunner race style light bars in its place. Just waiting on some cash for that and then I can probably knock it out in a day.
 
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Old Apr 9, 2011 | 01:37 AM
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I can post a how-to if anyones intrested too I took plenty of pics during it to help me remember what bolts went where haha
 
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Old Apr 9, 2011 | 01:58 AM
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Those look really good, gonna look nice with the bed sides done too.
 
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Old Apr 9, 2011 | 02:06 AM
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Thanks man!
 
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Old Apr 9, 2011 | 02:15 AM
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37s now!

Nah it looks good man. I will have to be that guy that disagrees and says that it doesnt make the mirrors look any more like they are supposed to be there. In my opinion, the mirrors look good either way, but what do I know.
 
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Old Apr 9, 2011 | 10:04 AM
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I can post a how-to if anyones intrested too I took plenty of pics during it to help me remember what bolts went where haha
I want the how-to i plan to do that this sommer and where are you getting the prerunner race style light bar from ive looked and looked and looked and cant find one
 
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Old Apr 9, 2011 | 10:50 AM
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Okay I'll try to get one up later tonight after work. As for the light bar I'm either just gonna get a local shop to fabricate me one or polyperformance sells a universal one that just needs mounts fabbed up.
 
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Old Apr 9, 2011 | 03:23 PM
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Man love the fenders
 
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