"I got BIG tires and I cannot lie"

[Dumke]

"You other brothers can deny".... Sorry that was my worst sir-mix-alot impression. you dont even want to see the best either.

So here is my problem I have my tires on WAHOO and had to cut a bit of the cladding up front. But have a problem with the front tires still. The rear of the wheel well is rubbing. All I an see is a bracket. My question to you "bigger tire" folks is what did u do? Take bracket off and beat with a hamer?? Or just beat with a hammer?

Where it rubs on front tire rear of the wheel well




A upward view of it.




And now the red-headed-step bracket





So any suggestions would be awesome. I am thinking its a simple removal of the bracket and maybe hammer a bit.

[ZEUS]

If I remember correctly, the bracket is spot welded to the body - I hacked mine in half with a sawzall where it turns to horizontal. Remove the inner liner and you get a great look at what can be done. I pulled the cladding away from the bracket when I started cutting to protect it. It is glued to the metal and one of those little white plastic plug things secures it to that bracket - I cut my plug off with a pair of dikes to save time, then I carefully pulled until I could wedge something between the steel and the cladding. I used my Roto-Zip to cut the liner and the cladding to shape. I sprayed bedliner stuff very thick onto the metal that is under the liner. Then I hammered the hell out of it! When I got the shape I wanted I sprayed some more to fill the seams and cover the pounded metal. I think it looks pretty clean! I'll take a pic of the finished result when i get a chance... don't hold your breath though!

[JoFotoz]

Yup...SAWZALL...a grinder...then a cocktail!

jo

[rowhard]

Well, I had the same problem. I took a dead blow to it, it is bendable. One came out looking like that is the way it should be, the other, well, you can tell I took a dead blow to it, oops

[Ldub]

Yous guys & yer fancy power tools & such...

Being predominantly of the cave man persuasion, I just beat mine into submission with a two pounder, trimmed off whatever plastic that was still in the way with a tin snips, & finished with liberal applications of bed liner...it's my fender well, I don't care if it's purdy...UGHHHH!

[Ldub]

Oh, and what about some pics that AREN'T close ups???

[Pepino]

what size tires did you put Dumke?

[Dumke]

Oh, you got some AR's too? didn't know...which ones?

Way to ruin the suprise lol. Actually posted in another post but they are the AR thugs. Dont have center caps yet for them as they have to be ordered seperately

what size tires did you put Dumke?

This is sad. I dont know I ordered it awhile back and cant remeber i will look at the tire tonight and also as for rims sizes I am sure people will want to know I dont know that eaither to be exact I will get demensions to them tonight and post them.

[cyronman]

Way to ruin the suprise lol. Actually posted in another post but they are the AR thugs. Dont have center caps yet for them as they have to be ordered seperately

Dude...Congrats!

I can't WAIT to see what some teflons look like on a Kaiser! :_drool:

and the Thugs at that...they looked like they would look awesome...
HURRY UP WITH SOME PICS!!!

[pbkid]

ok, so im getting ready to buy my tires and rims....so im basing my spacing and width off of yours, except im going with 16 inch rims, so if i tell them i need 16x9 6x5.5 and 31 inch tires i should be good????
sorry, the guys at the tire shops are freakin idiots and cant figure out what im looking for, so maybe if i bring them in some numbers they can figure it out.
does the 16x9 6x5.5 include offset???? that seems to be the hardest part to figure out.....

[Dumke]

ok, so im getting ready to buy my tires and rims....so im basing my spacing and width off of yours, except im going with 16 inch rims, so if i tell them i need 16x9 6x5.5 and 31 inch tires i should be good????
sorry, the guys at the tire shops are freakin idiots and cant figure out what im looking for, so maybe if i bring them in some numbers they can figure it out.
does the 16x9 6x5.5 include offset???? that seems to be the hardest part to figure out.....

Ok now for you pbkid. I basically looked at what Bart had on his set up to see what would fit on mine. Which if I am not mistaken or maybe he can chim in or do search for his chamber rims. I think is was 6x4.4 maybe??? So I basically just used the search function and looked at who was running what and also looked at thier pictures to see how much it stuck out and got my solution from there. If you can get them to be nice enough to try a few different combos then that will work as well. I just got lucky on the first try but it was a try on first to see if it work, even tho I had already paid so I could have gone different ways. My numbers I am running are in the above post, so look in my gallery and that is how much they stick out of wheel well. I would say maybe 1.5 inches maybe a little more. I am going dub route because even tho legal to stick out in Texas its not legal everywhere.

Lasly because i think i just wrote a novel there. I would go else where to find someone that does know. There are sites out there that should tell you and let you play with options to see what fits.

[pbkid]

ok, well i know that i want 16x9...and i know the bolt pattern, i just need to figure out what type of offset to tell the shop who is ordering them. they said it was +25 offset stock so i dont know if that means i need +27 or +23 to get 2 inches of offset outward to fit wider tires under there...