All 4 new tires... mounted and balanced! Went by and borrowed a fender lip roller from www.boost-performance.com . George is a super cool guy and I would not hesitate to recommend his shop to anyone.
Hopefully this weekend I can work on the car a little.
I borrowed an Eastwood fender lip rolling tool to use to roll the inner fender lips. It worked, but was not without some issues.
The tool.
Bolts to the hub using lugnuts and special washers.
Basically you just adjust the roller to contact the lip and rotate the hub back and forth to mash the lip down. This brings me to the first issue. When rotating it back and forth, you are turning the axle, the tire on the other side and the driveshaft. It gets very tiresome after a while even after removing the opposite tire. I feel the tool could benefit from some sort of handle where you could sit and 'row' it back and forth as opposed to trying to just doing it with your arms.
Results. I was not concerned about the paint so I did not use a heat gun to warm it. I just rolled it. I had a difficult time taking a pic, so this is as good as I got.
The second issue I had with it was the fact the fender lips are not concentric to the hub. This caused the roller to have to slide along and made adjustments a bit cumbersome.
My conclusion: It was a good tool to use if you have nice paint and are concerned about preserving it. Otherwise, just grab a 2lb hammer and bang away. I rolled the passenger side and used a 2lb hammer on the driver's side with virtually identical results in a quarter of the time. I think I'll just stick with using the hammer for now.
Old tire vs. new tire. not a whole lot of width difference.
Something else I noticed. Looks like I'll have to take the fuel tank back out. I am surprised the JB Weld is turning loose. May have something to do with the higher ethanol content in fuel now I don't know. I do know it has to be fixed. Thinking of using Eastwood's gas tank sealer kit. I have read good stuff about it.
I thought the old trick was a baseball bat on the tire and rolling the car. On my Skylark, the left front trim keeps getting "caught" by the tire and yanked down, so I took a round piece of wood and rolled it through a few times. It worked for a few months before I hit a dip particularly hard and it grabbed the edge of the trim again =/ I have to try it again.
Bummer on the fuel sump. Maybe some of that puddy gas tank sealer instead?
This is the first picture I've seen that shows your new exhaust setup (somewhat). I was going to run tailpipes under the axle and out the back to be a little different, it looks like that is almost what you have going on, minus a couple of feet.
The tank sealant stuff is awesome. We use RedKote here at work on old tractor fuel tanks with excellent results, I've done a couple of motorcycle tanks and other automotive tanks, highly recommended!
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