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Old 09-30-2009, 12:18 PM
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Your welcome and not a problem.

Also sound like your fender may be pushed in. Take a tape and measure from the fenderlip plumb bob to the frame rail and see what you get on both sides.

If that is the case i have the fender lip roller that you can use and instead of rolling the fender lip you can gently flare the fender back out. I did this on the bed of my truck and it worked great.

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Originally Posted by DRJDVM's '69 View Post
Since thats been all mounted up, I've been trying to measure for wheels....that has been a huge PITA.

I wanted to thank Marty (Syborg) for lending me his Mount Mate to help the job. I borrowed it back in late July (anticipating my brakes would arrive soon) and then we had all the brake delays and its been sitting in my garage unused.... thank you Marty for being so understanding on the delays. I'll have it back to you next week, I promise.....

I dropped a plum bob from the fender lip and measured to the hub on both side and it looks like my fender is about 1/2 inch pushed in on the driver side.
If I do more BS, then the Mount Mate hits the tie-rod at lock...plus I guess 6 BS is the most I can really do on an 8 inch rim anyway....so best I can figure is do the 19x9 with 6.5 BS, have a slighlty larger lip, and fix the driver side fender opening.....

I can go with a shorter hub and hat and move the track width in, but the caliper is the most "outboard" piece, so it wont do anything for my dish....so by doing the shorter hub, all I'm doing is changing the BS reading.... the mount pad gets thicker and the dish stays the same....

So decisions, decisions......
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