paul e
03-19-2002, 10:29 AM
For any of you guys looking for a little more tire room on the fender side, and dont have access to one of those professional fender rolling gizmos, I tried something this morning which proved extremely effective and only took a few minutes with no risk of paint cracking.
I managed to easily increase the gap between the rear tires and the fenders by 10 mm, and easily could have gotten more if I kept at it...I had about 7 mm, which was the perfect sized gap for me to fit the claws of a claw hammer! Using the Tire as the fulcrum, and resting the claws against the protruding inner fender lip, I gently pushed down on the hammer handle...I did this in several places where the lip was closest, and when I was done, what had been a sharp edge of the protruding fender lip, was now nicely rolled over, yielding about 10 mm....Since greater leverage would have also pulled out the fender flair a bit, there's quite a bit more room this method would have created had I needed it.
I know its a simple solution, hardly worthy of a thread on the forum, even. But I was so pleasantly surprised by its ease of implementation and its effectiveness, that I wanted to call your attention to it...Sometimes, the most effective solutions are the easiest, and therefore, are most likely to be passed over.
I managed to easily increase the gap between the rear tires and the fenders by 10 mm, and easily could have gotten more if I kept at it...I had about 7 mm, which was the perfect sized gap for me to fit the claws of a claw hammer! Using the Tire as the fulcrum, and resting the claws against the protruding inner fender lip, I gently pushed down on the hammer handle...I did this in several places where the lip was closest, and when I was done, what had been a sharp edge of the protruding fender lip, was now nicely rolled over, yielding about 10 mm....Since greater leverage would have also pulled out the fender flair a bit, there's quite a bit more room this method would have created had I needed it.
I know its a simple solution, hardly worthy of a thread on the forum, even. But I was so pleasantly surprised by its ease of implementation and its effectiveness, that I wanted to call your attention to it...Sometimes, the most effective solutions are the easiest, and therefore, are most likely to be passed over.