rolling fenders
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rolling fenders
just got done putting my rims on fri and looks nice will post pics tomrow but need to lower it to much gap was going to get coilovers but need to save first but a quick fix is to get spring. i need to roll my fenders and was wonder if that something i can do or get someone to do it any suggestion?
If you haven't done it then I wouldn't try to figure it out on your own car. If you can roll some other cars feel free to buy the roller and practice before you touch the G.
But if you can find someone to do it go for it.
But if you can find someone to do it go for it.
Diy
The body shop can knock this out for you BUT...
If you are handy.. it is doable with garage tools.
Rolling the fender lip is sort of small bends with the proper tool or alternate shade tree tools methods. The fender lip is folded a little bit at a time until turned vertical to get the tire clearance that is wanted.
If you have a heat gun and a standard steel floor jack with about 1 3/8" dia steel handle..
you can DIY for just 1 car worth of fender rolling.
HEAT
1) The technique to prevent cracked paint is frequent and spread out heating on the inner fender flange and also on the the outer lip up the fender to about 3" away from the corner.
The fender and lip area temperature will be about 140 degF. (or too hot to touch for more than a second). Keep it hot.
Pinch/bend
2) The technique for folding the heated flange is to use the round steel jack handle to bend the flange upward (just a little at a time) about 1/4" width using the top of the tire as the fulcrum. The handle gets pushed down towards the center cap of the wheel to keep control of the shape of the bends as you move along the arc.
The car body needs to be jacked up sandwiching the round handle and frequently re-setting the clearance to a tight rolling pinch fit between the fender lip and the top of the tire which is braked by contact with the floor.
Roll the jack handle while bending the lip up just a small amount.
Tips:
It helps if you have have worked metal before so that you know the feel of the heated lip stiffness strength yielding to your jack handle bending it for that first bite.
This bite without cracking the paint is the key to success and not to hard to learn. Just go slow taking small bends. Keep repeating that "feel" left and right following an arc like pattern.
Start at 12 o'clock over the tire and worked the lip left then right 1/4" for each bend until you get to 2 o'clock and 10 o'clock (for some cars further out may be needed).
Then keep going back to12 o'clock to bend the lip more vertical repeating the technique until the lip is vertical.
The time it will take for 1 fender bend will be about 30 minutes once set up on the jack. Something like 15 minutes heating/ re-heating and 15 minutes sandwiching the jack handle by jack height, bending the lip / rolling the pipe shaped handle on the lip.
Hope this helps for the DIY'ers.
Remember keep the metal hot, bending a little metal at a time and repeat through the fender arc until the inner lip is vertical.
It is the same result as with the proper roller tool.
If you are handy.. it is doable with garage tools.
Rolling the fender lip is sort of small bends with the proper tool or alternate shade tree tools methods. The fender lip is folded a little bit at a time until turned vertical to get the tire clearance that is wanted.
If you have a heat gun and a standard steel floor jack with about 1 3/8" dia steel handle..
you can DIY for just 1 car worth of fender rolling.
HEAT
1) The technique to prevent cracked paint is frequent and spread out heating on the inner fender flange and also on the the outer lip up the fender to about 3" away from the corner.
The fender and lip area temperature will be about 140 degF. (or too hot to touch for more than a second). Keep it hot.
Pinch/bend
2) The technique for folding the heated flange is to use the round steel jack handle to bend the flange upward (just a little at a time) about 1/4" width using the top of the tire as the fulcrum. The handle gets pushed down towards the center cap of the wheel to keep control of the shape of the bends as you move along the arc.
The car body needs to be jacked up sandwiching the round handle and frequently re-setting the clearance to a tight rolling pinch fit between the fender lip and the top of the tire which is braked by contact with the floor.
Roll the jack handle while bending the lip up just a small amount.
Tips:
It helps if you have have worked metal before so that you know the feel of the heated lip stiffness strength yielding to your jack handle bending it for that first bite.
This bite without cracking the paint is the key to success and not to hard to learn. Just go slow taking small bends. Keep repeating that "feel" left and right following an arc like pattern.
Start at 12 o'clock over the tire and worked the lip left then right 1/4" for each bend until you get to 2 o'clock and 10 o'clock (for some cars further out may be needed).
Then keep going back to12 o'clock to bend the lip more vertical repeating the technique until the lip is vertical.
The time it will take for 1 fender bend will be about 30 minutes once set up on the jack. Something like 15 minutes heating/ re-heating and 15 minutes sandwiching the jack handle by jack height, bending the lip / rolling the pipe shaped handle on the lip.
Hope this helps for the DIY'ers.
Remember keep the metal hot, bending a little metal at a time and repeat through the fender arc until the inner lip is vertical.
It is the same result as with the proper roller tool.
Last edited by toro12; Jul 3, 2011 at 02:35 PM.
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