<VV> Rolling fender lips

[Bryan Blackwell]

I should have mentioned this happened on the way home from the convention - the wagon was all packed with stuff and I was making a sharp turn in a parking lot.  There was a drain, so the one side compressed more than the other.  Pretty much worst case situation.  Like Tom, I have low profile 15s on the car.

After the 'use a bat' replies, I dug around and found this video of how to do it that looks pretty good:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZEgi-Fa6Hw

For a Corvair, this might work better than the rolling tool - new cars generally have a fairly constant radius to the fender opening, but an early Corvair is more like a rounded polygon.  It's not exactly free, you still need a bat (about $20) and heat gun (have one of those), but that is less than $200.

--Bryan

On Jul 26, 2013, at 10:09 AM, Tom Berg wrote:

> The same tire rubbing occurred on our '64 Monza after I had aftermarket wheels and tires installed. They were (are) 15-inchers with low-profile tires (vs. the stock 13s) a bit wider than stock. 
> 
> When my wife was aboard and I turned into a driveway with a steep apron, the right-side tire rubbed against the fender lip. It didn't happen when I was alone and the suspension springs weren't quite as compressed.
> 
> The wheel shop solved it by crimping the inside of the lip on each side; don't know what they used, but it might've been a pliers or a Visegrips. The crimping is not visible unless I peer inside the fender or rub my fingers around the inside of a lip.