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fender clearance issue 444-544

posted by  gert 444 on  Thu Feb 27 04:30 CST 2014
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The 165/80/15 tires on my original 4" wheels have now been mounted on the new 5.5" GT ones. At the tireshop we also tried a 185/65 and a 195/65 at one of the rear wheels, but both left just a couple of milimeters space between tire and fender. To my surprise the situation with the 165/15 tires appeared to be hardly any better and on the way home the rear left tire almost continueous touched the fender lip, an awful noise. See the picture below.
At home I succeeded in creating a bit more space by bending the fender slightly outwards and fortunately the tire runs freely now.
So it's obvious that some serious mods will be necessary befory wider tires can be mounted. Why do I run into this problem while others don't?
Perhaps because one of the former owners welded the rear fenders to the body instead of bolting them? Otherwise I have no idea.





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