or what ever you like to call it. how do you do it? I have some very wide MT drag radials with weld pro star rims that fit very nicely. But under any acceleration they rub. If i tried to launch the car, it would eat these tires up. I need about 1.5" to 2" wider. this is a drag car, so no widebody basura here...

anyone here rolled/stretched/pulled there own fenders? have a link on how to do it step by step?

 

1.5 to 2" is 38-50mm. Pulling is not going to give that much. Sorry, but its flares or new wheels.

 

Baseball fender rolling

 

Hey! It's the guy that picked the hood up off you. I rolled my own fenders, but theirs no way your going to get 2" out of it. When mine rubbed, I only needed a few cm's, and I rolled it and it still rubs every now and then over big bumps (cant say hard launches, na cant really do that. ) You may get lucky if you fold the lip for the fender outwards and pull that out as well. Otherwise, I'd get some fender flares to put on it.

Basically, get a baseball bat and a heat gun. Heat up the fender so you don't mess up the paint. Jack the car up, put the bat in the fender between the tire and the fender. Put the car back on the ground and roll the bat back and forth while using the heat gun. The effect your going for is to roll that lip just inside the fender completely flat against the fender (starts out pointing toward the car) while pulling the fender lip as a whole toward you. Don't push too hard on the bat or you'll get a crease. Just work your way back and forth until it seems good, go out and test it, lather, rinse, repeat.

I don't know if it helps much since my rear is kinda high, but it use to rub all the time and I actually popped a tire before I got around to fixing it. Heres how it looks now. It only rubs under hard turning. You can see the line on the tread. It's fine the rest of the way up.

 

i tryed rolling with a bat already. i did this on my other car and worked fine. but with drag tires, they are much softer with a lot more side wall. so when the weight of the car sits on the bat, the tire just squishes down... i have rolled fenders before using bats and thick metal bars/tubing. but i was looking for another way.

like maybe hammer and dolly or cut/pull/weld how-to's...

 

Well they also have a tool you can use to do it. I don't know of any local places off the top of my head that have one and their pretty expensive to buy. This is what it looks like.

 

^Tool above is what your looking for. I remember not too long ago on nicoclub.com someone was renting these out, i think they were asking $150 deposit + $50 for using it, you get the $150 back when you ship it back to them. I guess search on their forum and look for the guy. This tool will ONLY ROLL fenders. You cannot "pull" the fender with this tool, you would use the bat/pipe method for this. If you can't find the tool, get to work with a hammer, be careful.

 

yup. you can pick them up used for a reasonable price but tirerack sells them for about 150 if i remember correctly.

 

thats the eastbear fender roller and it pulls fenders just fine. my friend pulled his fenders over 2" with one and i got about 1.5" before i said screw it and just put on wide fenders. you can always put on some other wheels with harder rubber to use the baseball bat, or you can hammer & dolley it to submission. neither way is very hard.

 

its an eastwood garage roller. and they are about 270 new. they are pretty simple to make also with some thinking. I didnt think this would pull the fender out at all. you have any pics of the roll you did with i t?

 

somewhat of a dead topic... but here's a guy on ebay that rents his out...

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Rubbi...motiveQ5fTools