If you do a search you should find a similar post by me from a while back,the best thing i can tell you is that i ended up cutting the edges out with a grinder and cutting disc. Derek.
Check the New Mustang Monthly mag. Table of Contents: Mustang Monthly How to Roll Fenders Eastwood's useful fender-rolling tool takes the guesswork out of rolling inner fenders for added tire clearance
One of us needs to buy this thing, and then rent it around to forum members for maybe half the price paid, or even less. I would pay $25 plus shipping to "borrow" this...
Why not? I cut slits in mine about 2 in apart. Then use a spoon style dolly and a body hammer to gently bend them up, then weld up the cuts. It takes some time but I think its worth it. Better than slicing up a sidewall!
i had to roll mine after it was painted and had no problems. eastwood did not have their tool out then. i did it the redneck way with a crescent wrench and some body dollys and body hammer. just go VERY slowly.bend the lip up as far as possible in stages with the wrench then use the dolly and hammer to flatten it. i have also heard that if you have help you can use a wooden baseball bat set on the tire and SLOWLY roll the car forward moving the bat along the lip in stages to push it up. have not tried this in person.
I've done a few fender rolls. I start out using vice grips. Crescent wrench would work good too as mentioned. Whatever is handy. Seat the vice grip all the way in until it hits the inner fender lip and then pull it back off the flange (into the fenderwell) by about 3/8". Its when you roll it right out to the edge that things get screwed up and it starts looking funny. Clamp it down and bend it up about 10 degrees at a time. Keep working your way around bending a little at a time until the lip can be bent no more without hitting into the inner fender. That should get you close to 45 degree bend. Then get out a good hammer and start rapping the edge of the flange. Take a little at a time and it will bend right around where you started it with the vice grips and not the actual fender edge. Done the base ball bat deal on dirt track cars. But only when the fender got smashed into the tire. If the tire didnt smoke off the fender coming out of the turn then it looked great. The whole car was pretty much wrinkled anyway. Cleaver
