ARB & 34" - Cut into tires

My steering wheel is horrifically shaky now. It's an adventure to drive the thing. I'm parking it until I get the bumper and tires taken care of.

 

Went from the edge of the flare to the edge of the brace inside the bumper. Didn't re-cap it. Since I took 2" out of fender and flares, stuffs 35s no problem.

I'd use air cut off wheel or angle grinder. I used angle grinder. Went over the cut with flap disc. Used semi gloss spray paint and some tape to touch it up.

 

I noticed (See image, see the hole in the metal that lines up with the chunks out of the tire? ) that the gauging is also coming from behind the tire, so I have 2 different items eating my rubber. I'm looking for posts from people that have cut or beat this back so I know the best thing to do.

 

With 34 and 35" tires you need to trim/bend the weld on the rear part of the wheel well, beat it back good with a hammer and cut a lot off the body/cab mount area

Btw - what wheel size and back space are you running? I have 16x8 with 4.5BS

 

cab mount chop..common mod

 

this happened to me as well with 285/75/16 BFG's, didn't cut all the way into the tire though, just chewed up the sidewall

 

Man I wish I would have cut my bumper the first time this happened! Apparently hit a bump too fast this morning and stuffed the tires into my ARB. It peeled a nice rubber whip and took out my driver side mirror. Luckily I had everything I need to replace the mirror!! Today started as a frustrating commute but I couldn't help but laugh every time I saw the kittens with bowties.

I'll be cutting the bumper soon!

 

auto tire groover!

 

Wow, that tire was peeled purrfectly and luckily the mishap didn't end up being more catastrophic.

 

now you have fresh new sidewall lugs right?