Roll Rear Fenders

[mandyfig]

How do you roll fenders safely. Is this a DIY? I need to roll my rear fenders, I have slight rubbing and do not want to work on my suspension. Thanks.

[eyeball96]

There's probably many different techniques people have used to roll the fenders. I'll try to explain how I did the 94's.

Of course Jack the car up, and remove the rear tire, Use of a Jack stand would be advisable. I then used a pair of pliers to began a bend upward about half way up the wheel well right at the point where the bumper cover meets the wheel well.

I purchased a Body repair kit at O'riellys for 20 bucks(probably could use a hammer instead) I used this piece ( 2nd and 3rd pic, I'm sure it has a name, I don't know WTF its called) and hand tapped alittle at a time until it was rolled.







Just take ur time and bend alittle over and over until its where u think it should be not to rub.

Of course ur probably going to crack the paint on the edge. (I did) I then covered the area well with brush on under coating.

[mandyfig]

Fantastic! Thanks a lot.

[frenum49]

There are also vids of this process on YouTube.

[eyeball96]

I'll be putting more pics up later today....

The 225/45 on the 18" TRD's are rubbin with 2 passengers, so I guess I'll be rollin the rears on the 96 today.

[frenum49]

My 245/45/18's rub in the rear on my Gen3 as well.

[werkit217]

just stick a bat to it

[mandyfig]

Thanks to the ones who are posting pics. Links to the youtube vids are also appreciated!

[5SlowFE]

I used the YouTube method, and yes, it did crack my paint. I found that the trick to it working is the size of the pipe. ( Getting someone heavy to stand on the back bumper and bounce while doing it helps a lot too. ) It must be big enough to compress most of the tire sidewall, almost to the rim to work, so I needed a pipe that was about 3 inches in diameter. It must be very thick steel, nothing else will work. I tried 2 baseball bats first. 1 wood, 1 aluminum, with no success. I ended up using the piston from a hydraulic lift cylinder that I borrowed from work.

Also, make sure that you FILL the back side of the fender lip with the tar type undercoating BEFORE you roll, otherwise you will just create a pocket for water to stay in and cause rust ( paint breaks inside the fender too ). At least this will happen if you roll them completely flat like I did.

You might be able to reduce or eliminate paint cracking by using masking tape on the areas contacted by the rolling bar, but I doubt it would stay on because so much force is required.

[ONE_to_HATE]

toyota uses hard paint so unless you heat it up wayyy good- u'll crack.. bring it to a mom n' dad shop who'll cut it for you..

[Venom_5]

if you dont use a heat gun, youre doing it wrong...

cutting fenders is a bit safer, but i still prefer rolling for the cleanliness - but only with a rolling tool, not hammers and mallets

[eyeball96]

Ok the 96 has been rolled..and on the test drive after, the rubbing seems to have ceased

Before



Durning Yeah and the paint chipped to shit!!





I sanded the lip and applied undercoating, esp in the edge I folded under!!







...and while I was there, I dressed up the wheel wells

[LazyAccent]

Use a wooden bat. it wont chip ur paint.

[mandyfig]

Great job!!!! Thanks for the pics! Now I am ready to do mine!

[mandyfig]

Time out......I have been doing some research on how to roll fenders. Then the suggestion was made to cut it off. There are many ways to cut them off. Grinding-cutting wheel, which will probably burn your paint, because of the heat. Then there is the use of snips, the heavy duty, pneumatic snippers. So, off to harbor Freight to find snippers to nibble away at the fender lip. What ya'll think?