Ducman82

Www.rollyourfender.com, looking at doing this. Just wondered if any of you have. I don't trust the wooden bat idea, with me doing it anyway...


Duc

auzivision

DR has one or something similar and I watched a guy use it last year at SITM... pretty nifty.

76FJ55

IIRC this is the similar to the unit they had at OCIC last year. They did a demo with it there and it appeared to work well, and as I recall at that time a rental program was being discussed.

zoltan944

Ya used that on about......oh....i don't know...... 20ish cars...
I always seem to prefer my car ride height and wheel offset to where those lips always rub. I would have easily gotten my money back if I bought one outright forever ago, but I just keep renting....

They work AWESOME. go slow

MGW-Fla

Wish I had this a couple years ago when I did mine!

Ad0911

Are there other was to roll a fender, not using his tool?

Landseer

https://rennlist.com/forums/928-foru...ideo-clip.html

mark kibort

use the bat, but jack the car up first and do it slowely and use the bat in a vertical fashion. this might be good for lips, but the bat actually follows the problem area of the tire a little better. I would probably use both. cool toy!

Here is stage one of the bat, (car lifted and then using the handle for fine tuning) then, stage 2, where I used the fat end of the bat and rolling the car back and forth. I needed stage 2 because I also run the 305s and 335s in the rear, and have 17mm spacers too. without the spacers , on a street car, stage one is all you need. you can see that stage 1 clears the tire, but with the car this low, as soon as you turn, the tire rubs up in the wheel arch. with stage 2, there is no rubbing. actually, I had to blow it out a little further than even this shot to clear the 335s too.

mk

dr bob

The tool does what the bat does, but 100x easier and certainly more predictable. It's centered on the hub, so it's just a matter of adjust a little tension, roll, a little more tension, roll again. etc., until you have the clearance you want. Warm the paint a bit and it will help avoid cracking. I watched the demo on several cars at OCIC, and the tool is definitely the way to go.

Perhaps on Mark's race car where he's dumpsdter-diving for used race tires, and aren't concerned about appearance as much as you are cost, the baseball bat method might be OK. The tool offers a much more controllable method and predictable results.

My observations.

chewy8000

Duc,

I just used it on my car and went extremely slow and used a heat gun and it still cracked the paint. I've never seen anyone do it successfully without cracking the paint at some point. It did do what it was suppose to though. ET52 11x18 and a 1 inch spacer. Perfect fit.

Ducman82

might just have to try it out. im waiting to hear from DR to see if he has one for rent as well. im not worried about the paint so much, being that i will "try" to repaint it this winter.

Imo000

For the last few years I've been planning on using a VW (Golf/Jetta IV, '99-'06) jack to fabricate a fender roller like the in the OP link. They are very simmilar to the actual fender roller and shoudn't take that much effort to make one.