yellocoyote
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So, I recently upgraded to 265/75 Treadwright BFG AT knock-off tires. Love them so far - they did amazingly off-road last weekend, and much quieter on-road than the wearing MTR's were.
I had to do a small fender flare mod on the front side of the wheel wells to minimize the rubbing, and pound the pinch weld on the back side. That done, I still had a little bit of rubbing from the tire on the plastic, even after taking the heat gun and melting the plastic to be as flat as possible.
Today, I trimmed the more of the portions of protruding plastics and am finally without rub! :badger_1: However, now I have part of the pinch welds exposed again. I had planned to spray paint the exposed areas anyway, and then replace the plastic wheel well liners once that dried. But now I'm thinking of removing the plastic liners altogether and doing the entire wheel wells in either rattle can or bed-liner.
Has anyone done this? Results? I'm trying to weigh the pros/cons of doing this.
I had to do a small fender flare mod on the front side of the wheel wells to minimize the rubbing, and pound the pinch weld on the back side. That done, I still had a little bit of rubbing from the tire on the plastic, even after taking the heat gun and melting the plastic to be as flat as possible.
Today, I trimmed the more of the portions of protruding plastics and am finally without rub! :badger_1: However, now I have part of the pinch welds exposed again. I had planned to spray paint the exposed areas anyway, and then replace the plastic wheel well liners once that dried. But now I'm thinking of removing the plastic liners altogether and doing the entire wheel wells in either rattle can or bed-liner.
Has anyone done this? Results? I'm trying to weigh the pros/cons of doing this.