I am currently running 265/75-16 I was wondering if anyone else has experianced clearance issues withe front pinch weld, and how you dealt with it

see here

http://www.lostjeeps.com/forum/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?t=226&highlight=pinch+weld

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That's a great write up!

Here's the cliff notes version. Cut the plastic around the pinch welds, take a big heavy hammer and go to town, then use an undercoating spray to cover cover up the freshly beat area. It feels a little wierd to take a hammer to your Jeep but it's worth it (and fun).

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03 Freedom with some neat stuff done to it that I learned about here.

I cut the plastic up two sides, beat the pinch weld flat, sprayed with rust-proofing primer, heated the plastic flap, flattened it out, cut it down to fit the space, then used the trim pieces to melt them with the heat gun like I was soldering the flap back into place. Worked great!

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Wow, 265/75/R16s. What kind of rubbing to you get? What year is your KJ?

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Beat the pinch weld with big hammer (take the wheel off 1st).

Cut the plastic just enough to expose the pinch weld and get to work w/that hammer.

Ditto here. It was actully fun to beat the hell out of the jeep with a big hammer.

Took about an hour for the whole job.

I also heat gunned the fog lamp door. I proped a peice of wood against the plastic and heat gunned it. It took about 15min a side for that part.

I prob. didn't even need to do it but I was going to run 265's untill I found that the 245's would save me over $100 and money was tight.

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