Jungle flares with scrub bars

[Trentd]

Tried to have a quick search, no luck

Any threads going about modifying the wide flare arches for a triton to fit in between arb bullbar at the front? Just wondering if anyone's cut them down or even gone an extra mile and re moulded them after the cut! If I could be linked to any on going threads that would be great! Otherwise I'll start a new topic! Cheers!!

[FredSmith]

Tried to have a quick search, no luck

Any threads going about modifying the wide flare arches for a triton to fit in between arb bullbar at the front? Just wondering if anyone's cut them down or even gone an extra mile and re moulded them after the cut! If I could be linked to any on going threads that would be great! Otherwise I'll start a new topic! Cheers!!

You'll have to cut them. Leave about a 10 mm gap between bar and flare. Then go to Clark Rubber and by some "pinch weld". I think it is around $6.00 per meter. Cut a piece of this and place over the end of the cut flare.

HTC

Ian

[NowForThe5th]

Tried to have a quick search, no luck

Hmmmm.

Otherwise I'll start a new topic!

No, you will not. The subject has been covered numerous times - I got over 50 hits with a fairly targetted search, over 1700 with only two key words.

I've moved the posts here because, although an old thread, it does relate to the flare cutting and there is an excellent photo of the finished result.

[mattz]

Tried to have a quick search, no luck

Any threads going about modifying the wide flare arches for a triton to fit in between arb bullbar at the front? Just wondering if anyone's cut them down or even gone an extra mile and re moulded them after the cut! If I could be linked to any on going threads that would be great! Otherwise I'll start a new topic! Cheers!!

When you say "wide flare arches" are you talking about the factory ones or the jungle flares like this?
http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item.vi ... 1900051364

[NowForThe5th]

ML GLX-R, mattz, with factory flares. Nice build here

[Cowboy Dave]

I thought when he said in "between" he might have meant scrub bars but wasn't sure.

[NowForThe5th]

Ok, now I'm confused too.

Just have to wait until he comes back on and explains. When he does I'll move if appropriate.

[Trentd]

Sorry completely my fault! Was not even thinking properly!

I meant the jungle like ones! Excessively big ones, I have the factory glxr ones on at the moment and want to upgrade to the 4'75" ( I think ) I have scrub bars that are 4'75 from the car body, so I was wondering if anyone's been able to just squash them in? Or re mould the front ones!

Cheers! Sorry for the terrible description

[Trentd]

This actually has helped though, If I did cut them to fit in between the scrub bars I could always use that pinch weld to finish it off..!
And I guess it may look half decent! Was just wondering if there were photos! Of what the arches looked like on a normal triton! Whether it looked funny with the wheels not being super wide

[NowForThe5th]

Right. Sorted.

There are a few things you need to consider.

Firstly, those big flares look silly with standard (even 265s) rubber and tyres. You'll need to go bigger tyres and change wheel offsets to fill them. See kwyjibo's:



Unless you're talented/skilled with plastic or fibreglass work then I wouldn't even try to modify the flares to fit inside the scrub bars. Apart from looks you'll have to make the modifications big enough to allow for the fact that the flares are attached to the body while the bars are attached to the chassis. That means that they'll move relative to each other and so any changes to the flares would need to be big enough to allow for this without contact.

I'd say it would be a much easier proposition to get the scrub bars modified so that they run clear of the new flares.

[Trentd]

Great help! Thanks heaps for the information!
I probably won't bother then! I have 31" on there now, not sure about offset that's been fitted, I will only be going to 32's with a more agressive tread! Right now I just have wrapped arches to make them all black and got quoted 400$ for them to be sprayed! Was just looking at options and the wider arches look bad ass! Haha