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3/16" Steel Corner Guards

Discussion in 'Builds and Fabricators Forum' started by jzeber, Nov 26, 2013.

  1. jzeber

    jzeber Well-Known Member 2022 Sponsor

    After many years of abuse and constantly pushing my Jeep to harder challenges I finally decided to get some real 3/16" steel corner guards. After hours and hours of searching for true 3/16" steel corners for an old CJ I finally found them at Gen Right off road and bought them from Zach at A to Z Fabrication. Zach was a huge help and I highly recommend the company.
    The corner guards I had were maybe 16 gauge and just bent with the body when I hit something. They are less than 1 year old.
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    Picture of the old corners during removal.
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    I also had a bit of body damage from bouncing off rocks. Driver side has similar damage.
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    New 3/16" steel corners.
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    There will be a lot of material to remove, time for the high speed and cut off wheel.
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  2. bkd

    bkd Moderator Supreme Staff Member 2022 Sponsor

    Genright was a local Co when I lived in so-cal.......good people, good product

    Sent from my SCH-I545 using Tapatalk
     
  3. jzeber

    jzeber Well-Known Member 2022 Sponsor

    It is amazing what you can do with a high speed grinder and cut off wheel.
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  4. tarry99

    tarry99 Member

    Nice Job!
     
  5. cj6/442

    cj6/442 Sponsor

    that will take a hit ,,,,lets try it out next year on the Dusy !
     
  6. jzeber

    jzeber Well-Known Member 2022 Sponsor

    I'm in! Should we set the date now?
     
  7. djbutler

    djbutler Sponsor

    Jeff,
    What did he charge for those corners?

    Don
     
  8. jzeber

    jzeber Well-Known Member 2022 Sponsor

    Hey Don,
    They certainly are not cheap. With shipping around $360. I tried finding someone to bend them here in San Jose with no luck. I tired sheet metal shops, iron works, metal fab shops etc... Probably just don't want to do a "one time" job. I figure if I ever did find someone to do the work the cost of the steel and the fabrication would be well over that. Super high quality and A to Z was cheaper delivered than GenRight.
     
  9. don87401

    don87401 Member 2022 Sponsor

    I am going to do the same thing to My CJ6, I order CJ8 Blanks from Genright last week should be here Friday. I figure I can cut the CJ 8 blanks to cover most of the CJ 6 sides.
     
  10. jzeber

    jzeber Well-Known Member 2022 Sponsor

    I think you will be very happy with them. Mine are pretty heavy so I can't imagine what the longer sides will weigh. Check A to Z Fabrication. Zach got them to me for less shipping than GenRight.
     
  11. cj6/442

    cj6/442 Sponsor

    you gunna use flush bolts? counter sunk allen heads?
     
  12. cj6/442

    cj6/442 Sponsor

    Mmmmmm skid plates for the sides
    I LIKE IT !!!!!

    you can hang with me anytime jeff-ffffffffff
     
  13. johneyboy03

    johneyboy03 The green beast

    I’m looking to do something similar, i would like to buy them but the are not covering the bottom of the body where the door are.
     
  14. jzeber

    jzeber Well-Known Member 2022 Sponsor

    They come with flush bolts. Hopefully I will get the holes for lights and gas tank cut this weekend. Way too thick for my old saber saw so I am going to drill a bunch of holes, cut in between and then clean up with a grinding wheel on the high speed grinder.
     
  15. don87401

    don87401 Member 2022 Sponsor

    Genright makes the rocker gruards also for the bottom of the doors to work there corner guards.
     
  16. jzeber

    jzeber Well-Known Member 2022 Sponsor

    I just happened to get lucky and the corners work with the sliders I already had in place.
     
  17. Posimoto

    Posimoto Hopeless JEEP Addict

    Those look awesome Jeff.
     
  18. jzeber

    jzeber Well-Known Member 2022 Sponsor

    Thanks John,
    I have been sick all weekend and have not been able to work on them. Hopefully I will get more accomplished by next weekend.
     
  19. cj6/442

    cj6/442 Sponsor

    I used a jig saw to cut my holes went quick and then filed to finish
     
  20. HeavyIron

    HeavyIron Member 2024 Sponsor

    I used a hole saw. Went right through the corner guard and the body sheet metal. Upgraded to LEDs at that tome too. I made sure I painted all the cut and drilled holes in the body and the corner guard, used a q-tip to get into the small places.