Hey! Anybody got a fender-roller I can borrow?

Post by **thrdeye** » Tue May 10, 2005 9:49 am

...or know how to do it correctly with a baseball bat without effing anything up?

tscott · Post by **tscott** » Tue May 10, 2005 10:17 am

Borrow a heat gun and warm up the paint and use the bat and bend them a little bit at a time. Make sure there are no screws in your fender liner that may be pushed through your fender. I got a mini bat that works real well. I can help you do it but I accept no responibity for cracked paint.

whenry · Post by **whenry** » Tue May 10, 2005 10:46 am

I was going to offer the loan of a good baseball(wooden) bat but agree with Tyler: The owner of the vehicle gets to make the modification.

TonyBolton · Post by **TonyBolton** » Tue May 10, 2005 11:30 am

whenry wrote:I was going to offer the loan of a good baseball(wooden) bat but agree with Tyler: The owner of the vehicle gets to make the modification.

His car is BLACK. Wal-Mart sells black gloss Krylon for .89 cents a can. What's to lose?

Chris, I would offert to help, but the last time I tried rollin' them(the fenders

) I cracked the paint. O well, thats what touch up is for.

OvenMitts · Post by **OvenMitts** » Tue May 10, 2005 11:39 am

I think unless you've got some major movement to do, the inner lip is the only thing that really moves. When I did mine, the fender moved out a little, but its barely noticeable. I didn't use a heat gun, and the inner lip paint cracked some, but some touch up paint keeps the rust off.

Are there plastic/rubber moudling pieces that go inside your wheel wells? They covered up all the damage I did.

steverife · Post by **steverife** » Tue May 10, 2005 12:15 pm

Here is what I'd do:

this + this

Post by **thrdeye** » Tue May 10, 2005 1:04 pm

Curbing, thanks for the suggestion. If the car was "gutted" and "tubbed" and had a cage in it, I might consider it.

I've got a heat gun that I can use. Bought it back when I was a hockey player to change the blades out on my sticks.

So do I just take the handle of the bat and wedge it between the edge of the tire and the inner fender and push real hard after heating it up a little?

tnturbo · Post by **tnturbo** » Tue May 10, 2005 1:08 pm

I need to do this too. Maybe we can have a fender rolling day somewhere? I also need to take a BFH and beat my inner fenders in some

MARKP · Post by **MARKP** » Tue May 10, 2005 1:10 pm

TonyBolton wrote:His car is BLACK. Wal-Mart sells black gloss Krylon for .89 cents a can. What's to lose?

Actually, it's blue.

steverife · Post by **steverife** » Tue May 10, 2005 1:17 pm

Brian Flanagan mentioned using a jackhandle to flare his after cutting on the fender liner.

Post by **thrdeye** » Tue May 10, 2005 1:45 pm

MARKP wrote:
TonyBolton wrote:His car is BLACK. Wal-Mart sells black gloss Krylon for .89 cents a can. What's to lose?
Actually, it's blue.

Midnight Black.

But yeah, it is blue.

OvenMitts · Post by **OvenMitts** » Tue May 10, 2005 2:13 pm

You wedge a smaller part of the bat between tire and fender and roll the car back and forth, and the bat should roll up and down the fender. Then you just work your way up to the bigger parts of the bat, depending on how much you've got to move.

MARKP · Post by **MARKP** » Tue May 10, 2005 4:07 pm

not cbring wrote:Brian Flanagan mentioned using a jackhandle to flare his after cutting on the fender liner.

I don't necessarily recommend the Flanagan method if you want it to look purty. I've seen him "adjust" fender clearance issues with a sledgehammer.

Doug · Post by **Doug** » Tue May 10, 2005 4:11 pm

MARKP wrote: I've seen him "adjust" fender clearance issues with a sledgehammer.

I've seen him do it with a loose wheel

Post by **thrdeye** » Tue May 10, 2005 4:32 pm

MARKP wrote:
not cbring wrote:Brian Flanagan mentioned using a jackhandle to flare his after cutting on the fender liner.
I don't necessarily recommend the Flanagan method if you want it to look purty. I've seen him "adjust" fender clearance issues with a sledgehammer.

Well, it doens't have to be beautiful, but I don't want a car that I'm still making payments on looking like crap