Fitzee: "So a fella came in with a rusty horseshoe, so I took the horseshoe and proceeded to make myself a template...From there I was able to make a decent sized horse with a saddle...the guy who now owns it, rode it to Moncton and back a few times... Fitz, you are indeed a great mentor and best down to earth how-to guy on You Tube. you never cease to amaze brother, 👍👍the lower door sections look factory made. Without the use of specialized tooling, a good step by step demonstration and best use of brake metal to add to strength and the aesthetics.
Using your methods of marking, bending, cutting and welding I was able to make an awesome replacement hood for my John Deere garden tractor. New plastic hoods are $400. I made mine for about free with a scrap sheet of 18 ga. Thank you. P.S. I also added a cool hood scoop thanks to your tutorials. 👍🏻
At the 5 minute mark, you show us how you made the the initial tracing using your template onto the metal. If after that you trace again, but use a washer, you can easily make the extra dimension around your template. Different size washers, have different widths. By using a washer with a 3/8ths width from center to outer edge, you can easily enlarge the template on the metal. Placing your marker/pen/pencil in the center of the washer and keep it pressed against your template as you go around it, gives you a fast way to mark your material with the extra 3/8ths dimension, accurately, and simple. It's a wood workers trick.
tony, this latest installment should increase your subscribership to 200k. There's got to be plenty of 4 wheelers out there that can't rationalize spending big bucks for these items. Plenty of discarded appliance sheetmetal and such waiting to be scrounged for projects. You're an inspiration to all.
After all of the videos you've made that I've watched I have finally figured out why I was having a problem replicating the way you did things!! I now watch the video in front of a mirror ( I'm right handed ) LOL just kidding great video as always Tony !!! : - )
That's how the doors should come from factory! I got a cub cadet I hunt off from were going to build a cab for it before cold weather! Thanks for sharing
I woulda thought the rocker gaurd would have taken more then the red scotch gaurd. Or is that because it was "butchery 101" hahaha. Another great line!
Fitzee, I am really enjoying your show, with your use of bare-bones tools, and it has moved me to buy some tools and begin a restoration of my 1987 Toyota PU, that rightly belongs on on the rust heap as junk. Thank you for sharining your work with us. Q: i cant find quality autobody hammers. All the ones I have bought are soft steel heads and deform easily. Do you sell quality hammers? Perhaps with your logo on them? Thanks
Great video, really like the simple breaks in the new panels to stiffen them up. Like others have said you wouldn't guess they were add on, design mimics styling that was there. When you are drilling pilot holes in 18g with cordless, you go thru quickly. What bit are you using? To enlarge hole, looks like a step drill. When I do this, takes too long and sometimes I snap pilot bits.
I drill all my pilot holes with a 1/8 bit. I like the two sided bits as they fit down inside thr drill further. A 1/8 bit sticking out over a inch it will crack off
Nice work correcting all the bad designs on this vehicle one by one and demonstrating fabrication with no welding this time. Using the vehicle shows up what's wrong with it and lets you add your own modifications. But, you did two things wrong in this video. 1) You forgot to wear hearing protection while hammering and 2) You forgot to get your cat to inspect your work when you finished the reassembly. All the best from Queensland Australia.
Another great vid, Tony. I noticed that you use both hands for stuff the rest of us can only do with our dominant hand.....hammering, spraying. PS No overspray on your garage I hope...lol
Thanks again Fitzee for your time. How is the Mustang project schedule going, looks like you have some customer jobs come in to keep some change in the piggy bank.
Tony…… I’m curious why you didn’t use your sheet break to establish all of the 90’s? Seems like you’d have a better edge to work from than hammering it on the I-beam, alone.
I thought this was going to be the project that you use your new bead roller. Now I'm really curious. BTW, I've been cutting out some rusty spots on my Jeep and welding in new. I'm proof that, thanks to you, you can teach an old dog new tricks.
Another awesome how-to fabrication. I know you source sheet metal from automobiles. I was wondering if you ever source it from appliances? I'm looking at an old refrigerator with stainless steel on the doors.
@@fitzeesfabrications That seems to apply to everything these days. I use old computer cases 1.2mm thick for some jobs like repairing the rockers on my 1982 Mitsubishi L300, which is the same thickness metal. The new cases are a lot thinner, probably half that, but I haven';t measured them, as they are pretty useless being so thin.
Hey i am restoring a 1976 datsun b210 and the hood has a weak spot about as big as a paint can am i was wondering how i could tighten it up without replacing it cause the metal is in good shape in that area just weak and pops when you touch it
@@fitzeesfabrications Thanks alot for that i am huge fan of all your videos i could watch them over and over all day. I want your recommendations on how would you shrink it with torch or shrinking disc??
any reason you didnt put a couple of mud flaps/guards on it? Growing up in rural Texas we put mud flaps on any vehicle that was off road. From our hunting buggies to our work trucks and mudding vehicles . While I dont own any of these mini's those open air doors makes cleaning out the dirt blood and shit a breeze with a power washer. At least thats what my buddies say.
Your right about that Fitz the only reason why that make the doors like that is to make more money on it. Its highway robbery, anyway they can take advantage of the customer they'll do it, these days. At least that what it appears like doesn't it? ridiculous. Cheers bud.
@@fitzeesfabrications Hi, I'm Warren Dolph Buddy! I love your channel and the work u do. I have learned so much from u. A true master indeed. Keep uo your good work. I am from South Africa and Im willing to send them off to you. Please supply me with an address and i'll arrange for an economical way to get them off to you.
so why couldn't you have just used that first piece on the other side of the RZR instead of remarking the reverse side? no being smart, just wondering?
You gave me the confidence to try to make a replacement hood for my grand daughters Fisher-Price jeep LOL only if I could send you pictures not to your level but works
Fitzee: "So a fella came in with a rusty horseshoe, so I took the horseshoe and proceeded to make myself a template...From there I was able to make a decent sized horse with a saddle...the guy who now owns it, rode it to Moncton and back a few times...
Fitz, you are indeed a great mentor and best down to earth how-to guy on You Tube.
you never cease to amaze brother, 👍👍the lower door sections look factory made. Without the use of specialized tooling, a good step by step demonstration and best use of brake metal to add to strength and the aesthetics.
Using your methods of marking, bending, cutting and welding I was able to make an awesome replacement hood for my John Deere garden tractor. New plastic hoods are $400. I made mine for about free with a scrap sheet of 18 ga. Thank you. P.S. I also added a cool hood scoop thanks to your tutorials. 👍🏻
At the 5 minute mark, you show us how you made the the initial tracing using your template onto the metal. If after that you trace again, but use a washer, you can easily make the extra dimension around your template. Different size washers, have different widths. By using a washer with a 3/8ths width from center to outer edge, you can easily enlarge the template on the metal. Placing your marker/pen/pencil in the center of the washer and keep it pressed against your template as you go around it, gives you a fast way to mark your material with the extra 3/8ths dimension, accurately, and simple. It's a wood workers trick.
Good tip!
Excellent job Fitz....
Very nice doors you made. The "Bob is your uncle" cracked me up. Love watching your videos.
Can’t believe how awesome you’re work is, your a true humble master, I now need to go build some doors for my rhino, and a cab.
I really appeciate your applicable "adds" by suppliers, as opposed to the usual youtube invation into a show. Thanks
Thanks for your tips, always good to know!
Simply great job!
Best regards
From Mexico city!
Another great video with plenty of tips Tony. Please keep them coming.
As always, tips were good and the result is amazing.
Amazing work Fitz! Always a pleasure to watch you work. Cheers from Puerto Rico.
tony, this latest installment should increase your subscribership to 200k. There's got to be plenty of 4 wheelers out there that can't rationalize spending big bucks for these items. Plenty of discarded appliance sheetmetal and such waiting to be scrounged for projects. You're an inspiration to all.
I learned more in this video that 50+ hours of watching similar fabrication videos.
After all of the videos you've made that I've watched I have finally figured out why I was having a problem replicating the way you did things!! I now watch the video in front of a mirror ( I'm right handed ) LOL just kidding great video as always Tony !!! : - )
Hahaha.
As always, incredible work. You make it look effortless and easy.
That's how the doors should come from factory! I got a cub cadet I hunt off from were going to build a cab for it before cold weather! Thanks for sharing
Cracking job Fitzee looks factory
No surprises here JUST good and useful information AS ALWAYS! Thanks
Love it. Basic tools , an idea, little pattern and go..
Those body lines really make the panel. It looks great!
They sure do. Tony's eye for proportions and detail is spot on. Should have been a designer for them.
Satisfaction of hand made, doesn't get any better, good job Fitz!
Fitzie!!! What a great upgrade man. Well done as always. Glad to see your channel growing.
Oh man, those really turned out looking sharp!!
That’s a great idea, keep dirt and branches out and feet in
I am always amazed by the things you come up with awesome job there . Can't wait to see what you do next.
Those doors turned out awesome Tony. This video gives me some ideas for my RZR 800 upper doors for this winter.
I woulda thought the rocker gaurd would have taken more then the red scotch gaurd. Or is that because it was "butchery 101" hahaha.
Another great line!
Your right on the butchery 101. Lol
Yes, total butchery as always
AMAZING. PUTTING ON THE FITZ
As always as simple it can be. Good job.
Great tips as usually. Always looks forward to your videos.
Great looking panels. Keep up the great work Fitzee.
Another job well done and the yes the tips were good.
Hi Tony, It looks factory to me. Your the Eric Clapton in sheet metal. Is rocks and sounds solid.
Another great video. Fitzee. Whatever you put your mind and hands to, everything "fitz".
👍👍😎👍👍. The style came out perfect.
Another good one 👍 pretty slick..
Take care..
You are an artist
Impressed you can use a hammer right handed as well as left. I can do a lot of things with my non-dominant hand, but hammering isn't one them.
Great job!!!! Thanks for the tips!!!!
"Got them in the bake oven"
. . Lmao, love it!
Nice work as usual. You could sell these the look better then most everything else available
Very good job
Nice work Tony 👍
Beautiful job as usual , Roof , Windshield , Doors , next it's heat and A/C , LOL .
nice job i'll drop mine off tomorrow
Very cool machine, well done sir
The tips were good and I am waiting eagerly for next time!
Fitzee,
I am really enjoying your show, with your use of bare-bones tools, and it has moved me to buy some tools and begin a restoration of my 1987 Toyota PU, that rightly belongs on on the rust heap as junk. Thank you for sharining your work with us.
Q: i cant find quality autobody hammers. All the ones I have bought are soft steel heads and deform easily. Do you sell quality hammers? Perhaps with your logo on them?
Thanks
i stuck around good vid as always
Great video, really like the simple breaks in the new panels to stiffen them up. Like others have said you wouldn't guess they were add on, design mimics styling that was there.
When you are drilling pilot holes in 18g with cordless, you go thru quickly. What bit are you using? To enlarge hole, looks like a step drill. When I do this, takes too long and sometimes I snap pilot bits.
I drill all my pilot holes with a 1/8 bit. I like the two sided bits as they fit down inside thr drill further. A 1/8 bit sticking out over a inch it will crack off
Nice work correcting all the bad designs on this vehicle one by one and demonstrating fabrication with no welding this time. Using the vehicle shows up what's wrong with it and lets you add your own modifications. But, you did two things wrong in this video. 1) You forgot to wear hearing protection while hammering and 2) You forgot to get your cat to inspect your work when you finished the reassembly. All the best from Queensland Australia.
Better than factory!
Another great vid, Tony. I noticed that you use both hands for stuff the rest of us can only do with our dominant hand.....hammering, spraying. PS No overspray on your garage I hope...lol
You have to teach yourself to use both hands sometimes you can't get at it with your left
I would love for you to make a steal stamp that has your name on it . It's not a polarus its a fitz . Great 👍 👌 job
Great job...it looks good !!
Good show!
Fitzee....that spray on truck bed liner might work good to withstand some of the rocks and gravel
And trees! Lol long story
Nice job Tony, looks great.
"Nothing fancy lol.
very nice design Tony . At least no engineer will copy it, it's too simple for them ...lol
If they don’t hire you as a design consultant for them, I’m not buying 🤔😁👍
Thanks again Fitzee for your time.
How is the Mustang project schedule going, looks like you have some customer jobs come in to keep some change in the piggy bank.
It's been on hold. Shop been full for about a months. Thinning out now. Hoping to be getting back at thr mustang soon.
Tony…… I’m curious why you didn’t use your sheet break to establish all of the 90’s?
Seems like you’d have a better edge to work from than hammering it on the I-beam, alone.
A healthy magnet to secure the front lower corner would keep it from flopping around
Showing you don't need big tools to do it. I think it might pushed back on the panel in the break. Very short bent to make
@@fitzeesfabrications Don’t get me wrong, they turned out great. Just the one thing I would have done differently. At least on the longer ones.
I thought this was going to be the project that you use your new bead roller. Now I'm really curious. BTW, I've been cutting out some rusty spots on my Jeep and welding in new. I'm proof that, thanks to you, you can teach an old dog new tricks.
Ask your guy jack at the ridge if he's got paint stripping disks get you some try them they work great
Another awesome how-to fabrication. I know you source sheet metal from automobiles. I was wondering if you ever source it from appliances? I'm looking at an old refrigerator with stainless steel on the doors.
The new fridges are very thin. Stoves and washers dryers metal is good
@@fitzeesfabrications That seems to apply to everything these days. I use old computer cases 1.2mm thick for some jobs like repairing the rockers on my 1982 Mitsubishi L300, which is the same thickness metal. The new cases are a lot thinner, probably half that, but I haven';t measured them, as they are pretty useless being so thin.
Hi fitzei no rest for the wicked 🤙🏻💪🏼👍🏽🇦🇺👌🏼🍻🍻🔨☝🏼🏆 legend work once again
I bet you start getting orders for those now…. Looks great… all she needs now is a sound system…. We won’t mention the rack for the beer…
I use 4 !/2" wire wheels. The best that Grainger sells.
Phenomenal work as usual, so satisfying to watch!! 👌
Fitzee, what do you think of epoxy primer, I don't recall seeing you use it?
He uses a marine expoxy from memory look at early vids for reference
@@danstine4440 Thanks 👍
Fitzee: have you tried the Pferd victograin grinding wheels versus the flexcuts?
No I have not. Any link to them?
@@fitzeesfabrications This is where I saw them mentioned: ruclips.net/video/MEcCkyI3mOM/видео.html Available on Amazon, he links to them.
cutting discs on sale @ canadian tire this week!
Hello Fitzee, do you have a video of restoring a bed rusty truck? I hope you make one video. I cant find other video on youtube.
Bed rusty trunk? You talking floor in box of a truck?
@@fitzeesfabrications yes bed box single cab
No don't have a video on that yet. Have a box in shop that will need the attention. I'll be doing a video on that
@@fitzeesfabrications noted thanks and keep up the good work 💪🏻
I have to say I'm highly disappointed with this video, because Peanut wasn't in it! Just kidding you made those look like they came with the rig
curious to know why you didnt just use the bender on the edges
You could. But I wanted to show how to do it with basic tools.
@@fitzeesfabrications thanks
Not everyone owns a BIC lighter, Fitzee is just showing you another way to make fire with two sticks.
Hey i am restoring a 1976 datsun b210 and the hood has a weak spot about as big as a paint can am i was wondering how i could tighten it up without replacing it cause the metal is in good shape in that area just weak and pops when you touch it
Shrink it. Metal is stretched. Don't have any videos on shrinking but there are lots out there
@@fitzeesfabrications Thanks alot for that i am huge fan of all your videos i could watch them over and over all day. I want your recommendations on how would you shrink it with torch or shrinking disc??
any reason you didnt put a couple of mud flaps/guards on it? Growing up in rural Texas we put mud flaps on any vehicle that was off road. From our hunting buggies to our work trucks and mudding vehicles . While I dont own any of these mini's those open air doors makes cleaning out the dirt blood and shit a breeze with a power washer. At least thats what my buddies say.
I tear those flaps off this in no time. Lol. Trails are narrow and I drove tree stumps threw sidewalls. Lol
The dislikes would be from people who wouldn't be able to do this sort of thing.
Your right about that Fitz the only reason why that make the doors like that is to make more money on it. Its highway robbery, anyway they can take advantage of the customer they'll do it, these days. At least that what it appears like doesn't it? ridiculous. Cheers bud.
Hi, Fitzee! Have u managed to source those vents for your Toyota? I have a set.its yours if y need them.
No I have not! I would love to have them. Message me at fitzee23t@hotmail.com
@@fitzeesfabrications Hi, I'm Warren Dolph Buddy! I love your channel and the work u do. I have learned so much from u. A true master indeed. Keep uo your good work. I am from South Africa and Im willing to send them off to you.
Please supply me with an address and i'll arrange for an economical way to get them off to you.
Did somebody else thought the thumbnail was A fitness treadmill ?
What you do Fitzee is far from butchery its an art.
I think the doors are made like that to let the water out. That's what my nephew told me anyway.
They come with large drains in the floor
@@fitzeesfabrications The doors are made like that to let the water in so that it goes out through the large drains in the floor!!!!
It is timely Polaris should make motorcycle.
Sir you can sell it as a kit.
It's a one off unit. Lol.
Nice video great work, but learn how to time lapse do everyone doesn't have to listen to the hammering.
1st! 🤘🤠🤘
so why couldn't you have just used that first piece on the other side of the RZR instead of remarking the reverse side? no being smart, just wondering?
You're going too fast for him....lolol
Just makes it easier to see when bending the line
Butchery 101 LOL!
A template? A template by the leading, we'll just eyeball it, fabricator on RUclips? I hope this isn't the sign of a serious illness.
You gave me the confidence to try to make a replacement hood for my grand daughters Fisher-Price jeep LOL only if I could send you pictures not to your level but works
Drop over to our Facebook page. Set up just for these projects. Love seeing what people ate building