Project 3 from Jason: Fender Roller.
Since I have my car low and did not go with the option of air ride, I needed to roll my fenders to clear the tires for more aggressive driving. I was looking at buying a fender roller but the cheapest one I found that I liked was ~$250 so I just decided to make one.
VW includes a jack that is about worthless to use unless you want about a 50 percent chance of the car falling... Maybe that is a high or even low percentage of it happening but just everyone I know wont even use one if its all they had. Anyways it made a nice donor for this project. I forget the plate thickness I used and the size of the square tube but 1inch and 11/4 seem to ring a bell.
I didn't have access to a plasma and used an oxy-acetylene set. This was my first time with one of those and you can tell that I needed to practice free handing some circles. The bolt pattern that I drilled will fit either 4x100 or 5x100. They share the top hole if I remember right but I don't use it.
Here is a VW jack
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Here is the base plate that bolts to the hub
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Added on the pieces that the threaded rod would slide into.
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Put two flat pieces for the tube to have a pivot point
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Added the hooking parts for the upright to the threaded rod.
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Done
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Now these are the only pictures I could find for some reason but I know I took more. I will look for them some more later and if I still cant find them then I can always just take a new pic of it. Not shown is the reason I have a smaller tube but it is used because the roller is height adjustable. The smaller square tube will slide in the larger. The wheel is attached to the top of the smaller tube and can be tilted forwards or backwards to get the angle you need during the roll. There was not a lot of time really that was put into this. I really wish I could find my other pictures as they show the rest of it.
Jason
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