I used an angle grinder to grind off the spot welds, worked good, took 5 minutes each

 

Pick up a good spot-weld drill bit.

 

I had one, went dull fast. Angle grinder is faster but will distroy the flare bracket if you were planning to reuse it

 

I hear you. The first one we had was turd. It dulled fast and chipped teeth. Got one from Snap-on and it's wayyyy better, and we picked up several extra bits for it. Zip thru the welds in seconds. Took both rocker flanges of my GV in under a half hour. Best to centerpunch the weld first so the bit doesn't wander.

 

cool i got a grinder..so what do i do about the hole that throw the body when i pull the flare off it rips holes

 

if you grind correctly you won't have a hole.

 

dont grind all the way through, grind most of the spot weld and then "pop" it off by pulling. I did one or two at a time then ground off the knubs that were left, cant even tell anything was there

 

ok ill try that...thanks

 

Grinding off the spot welds with an angle grinder works, but it is such slow progress. I started out taking mine off that way, but it was so frustratingly slow. I decided that since my fenders were rusted and needed repairs anyways, I'd just drill through the spot welds and repair the small holes that were left over. That worked much better.

-- Geoff Beasley

 

now that sound like a good i idea...i was thinkin maybe ill use some of the ring iam takein off..il just cut lil chucks off and weld them on the back said and then fill in the hole with weld then grindin them down