Rolling Fenders

[SHODWN93]

HI everyone, i have a gen 2, just put my 19's on it, hey fit inside the wheel well fine, but they are right on the edge. id like to roll the fenders so i dont have to worry about it. front and rear. can anyone tell me how this is done?

 

[HoustinoJillian]

theres multiple ways- you can buy or rent a tool that attaches to your lugs, or you can do the baseball bat and a jack trick. either way have a can of por-15 ready (particularly if temps are down) cause ive never seen anyone do it without cracking the paint on the inside of the lip.

 

[Phoenix]

The proper way is with the Eastwood fender roller. Plenny on ebay.

Or the cheap ass way that gives cheap ass results = the baseball bat.

 

[jthod]

I'm going to be doing this soon as well. any one have luck doing it them self, with out any special tools?

 

[HoustinoJillian]

ive never done it but my friend brenden rolled his 240's fenders with an aluminum bat and a lot of time. IMHO it can be done, but since you can relt/buy the fender roller on the cheap, go with that.

 

[GeneSHO]

Proper tool:

Ghetto tool:

 

[nik97]

Proper tool:

With a heat gun correct?

 

[Phoenix]

Yup , or the paint will crack.

 

[Shoaz]

Yes, a heat gun or hairdryer on the paint (repeatedly) to keep it warm while "rolling" will prevent the paint from cracking.

There's a more ghetto method than a baseball bat, and that's to do it with a pair of channel locks. If you really don't care what it looks like or does to the paint (which is my case with the Pumpkin), then you can bend the lip up quite a bit with channel lock pliers.

Very, very ghetto, but it gets the job done as far as clearing the tire. It's not very bit pretty, but for the most part nobody sees it, anyway. With a race car the aesthetic issues aren't as big a deal (to me, anyway) as it might be with a street car.

FWIW, I did it with channel locks on Sam's car as well, but in that case I used a hairdryer and a layer of leather around the pliers and was a LOT more careful about how it looked.

It can be done. There are options. As usual it mostly just depends on how careful you are.

 

[AREA 91]

You can also cut small slits into the fender's edge to help with bending it.

 

[Mels]

Bludgeoned mine to death with a 2&1/2lb drilling hammer.

Bucked the outside of the fender with the heel of my hand and made swift work of encouraging the lip to bend to my every whim with that damn hammer.

Took longer to pull and reinstall the wheels than to roll those lips.

 

[jthod]

Where can they be rented?

 

[ScottyDsntKno]

Google is your friend or you can buy one on ebay. I'm thinking of doing this in the summer to the new SHO I'm buying.

 

[jthod]

$219 for one on ebay, or $90 for a 4 day rental on ebay with one way shipping.

 

[Shoaz]

So we have:

Rolling tool
Baseball Bat
Hammer
Pliers

I'd be hard pressed to identify a car with fenders rolled with any of the above methods without removing the wheel and looking under there specifically. From that standpoint I think they're all practical. YMMV.

 

[jthod]

I used a crecent wrench on the back ones and folded them a bit, but the paint on the inside was already in ****** shape.

 

[TheKrazyRaven]

you can also do it with a body hammer hitting the lip up and in, but once agian heat the paint up first