stretching 1st gen front fenders?????

[kamshaft]

i have a 1st gen ranger that i dropped onto a 2000 chassis with ifs and the cobra brake setup but i had to use 1" wheel spacers to clear the center cap and im dropping the front but i need about an inch and a half in each side so the tire wont hit the fender when i hit a bump if any one has tips or knows a thread id like to see it !

 

[GoMopar440]

You could try rolling the fenders out a bit with a piece of pipe or a base ball bat. You can Google it, I've seen plenty of how-to's out there. I'm just not so sure how those squarish first gen wheel openings would look done that way. They mostly do that trick on rounded wheel openings.

What about using some bulged out fiberglass pre-runner fenders?

 

[kamshaft]

i feel like they would be too high like still like it sits too high i can pull them out by hand and it looks sweet, thinking about just making a support brace that goes to the steel iner fender to hold them out

 

[kamshaft]

this is why

 

[351splash]

I'd skin on some rear wheel well openings from a bronco II. Should be about perfect offset and would keep the correct body lines.

 

[Ty84]

this is how i did it...

turned out pretty nice if i do say so myself

 

[upnsmoke]

That looks awesome Ty. Did you just cut out that part of the fender and reshape it, or did you use part of a different fender? And what's with your bedside?

 

[JoshT]

Been a while since I read his thread on it but I know he cut the sectioned that part of the fender, added some material (possibly from another fender?), and welded it back up. He's doing all 4 wheel wells. IIRC that front one is all he's finished with so far, so it's a work in progress. Unfortunately I don't think it'll help the op much since he needs to pull them out a little rather than enlarge them like Ty84 did. Without removing the spacer all together I think the his only option will be making the braces he mentioned a few posts up.

 

[Ty84]

i made the patch pieces myself. i have a more indepth thread on it in the exterior section of this site if you want to see exactly how i did it, but i cut the bed sides like that temporarily, now i have the beginnings of a tube bed so i didnt end up streching the rear fenders.... and i fawked up the fender that i finished as soon as i took the thing wheeling lol

 

[bobbywalter]

fawk all that shit just pull and support them with some braces.



you can go huge like i did and raise the mounts and bulge them way out.

you can do it nicely too when you use a filler panel at the door pillar. then bulge the rears and run wider wheels.

 

[Ty84]

thats what i shoulda done really... i put too much work into mine, and then just screwed em up haha

 

[bobbywalter]

with normal wheel openings on your lower truck you can fit some rubber under there

mine is very hacked and maxed, but i have seen this done with some mesh over the filler panel and thought it looked great...

hell i dont even have filler panels anymore cause i just dont care, but when i redo the body i will have them like the ones i seen...the body color or nice stainless mesh over the black filler panel looked real good. i had some on there for a bit but i am always smashing the fawk out of my fenders...i dont think you will have that fender smashing issue in your case its a cheap way to wide body....the next iteration of my truck will be different all around but have this still in a similar fashion. likely have tube fender flares.


pretty simple to do just range the mount where you want it.

 

[Tominator]

Nice work!

 

[upnsmoke]

That looks good Bobbywalter. Were you able to keep the inner fenders too? I will probably end up doing something similar on my 88, though less extreme. I could see where you could make it finished looking for a truck like the OP's also. I still like Ty's because it looks like it could have come from the factory that way. It does seem like a lot of work, though, especially if you bend it up often.

 

[bobbywalter]

it never looked good... never meant to as it may as well have been on a demolition derby car....hell its been 5-6 years since its even had ttb. issue i was trying to deal with was certain police in certain areas/states were relentless about my tires out too far.

you should see it now


the bed is a custom flat now, but the fenders have held up amazingly well....been shredded and booger welded back together a few times but still there. for michigan its a miricle.

rolling the lip in the classic clearance fashion and building some basic brackitry to force the fender out and cutting the lower pillar side support and inner rail takes some time and patience but i seen it done and liked it in the lowrider scene and bigger in the prerunners so i went as far as i could. it will take some fitting of some extra material to keep the wheel well solid but thats easy....any desert forum will have all the classic ways to bulge the bed.


i bet the glass prerunner guys would make subtle wide body setups for the lowriders with tight wheel openings.