New pinch weld rub after 1.5” spacers (1 Viewer)

[Pucker5]

Threw on the Amazon inexpensive wheel spacers (the ones that the guy with the tan cruiser did a video on YouTube)

Anyways, fit is real great. Not sloppy on the hub at all. Only lame thing is now I got very slight rub on pinch weld when I turn the wheel extreme on both directions. Fine once it clears that weld and plastic that covers it.

Anything easier than bfh to pinch weld and reshape plastic or maybe just reshape plastic?

 

[suprarx7nut]

No need for a hammer. The plastic liner sits a ways off the metal. I had more rub than that and just reshaped it with a little careful heat and a paint stick.

Obligatory wheel spacer razz: cheap spacers are fine until they're not. Threadlock those puppies and check the wheels and studs periodically. You've got yourself a new maintenance routine, haha.

 

[Pucker5]

No need for a hammer. The plastic liner sits a ways off the metal. I had more rub than that and just reshaped it with a little careful heat and a paint stick.

Obligatory wheel spacer razz: cheap spacers are fine until they're not. Threadlock those puppies and check the wheels and studs periodically. You've got yourself a new maintenance routine, haha.

Thanks bro! I thought I read that there’s a lot of space between that and the metal pinch (when I was researching 295/70/18’s) .

For heat, you use butane torch or electric heat gun?

And yeah they didn’t recommend thread lock and I plan on pulling wheels off and tightening em after a couple hundred miles

 

[GTV]

Heat gun works great. Start with the plastic, if you need more then move the metal back and reshape the plastic again.

There’s more room inside of the fenders than outside of them. You just proved that.

 

[suprarx7nut]

Thanks bro! I thought I read that there’s a lot of space between that and the metal pinch (when I was researching 295/70/18’s) .

For heat, you use butane torch or electric heat gun?

And yeah they didn’t recommend thread lock and I plan on pulling wheels off and tightening em after a couple hundred miles

Definitely just an electric heat gun. No need to burn a hole in the thing, lol.

 

[Pucker5]

Okay, im impatient and was always the hockey player that used live flame to switch the blades in my hockey sticks….habitually melting them lol. Thanks man