Just recently got a 92 XJ, lifted about 2 inches (block on rear), coil spacer on front. It has new BF Goodrich 33s on it. Whenever i turn the front wheels as far as they go, the tire rubs this metal seam on the inside of the wheel-well and its starting to tear up the new tires. Also it has almost no room to flex with the tires turned. Can this metal "seam" thing be cut away and smoothed with the rest of the wheel-well. Pics are attached..






thanks a bunch!

 

I have a 4 step plan for you
1. Remove wheel
2. Locate bfh
3. Use bfh to make some space
4. Put wheel back on

 

X2^^^ When your stuffing big tires on little lift, a saw and a bfh are your best friends.

 

Like many others on here I've done the cut and fold. You just slice that seam into 1"-ish sections and then bend it over with a hammer. This isn't a great pic but it shows where I rub with my 33"s and you can see that my seam is cut down already. Those are 30"s in the pic btw. When I get back from work I'll go snap a pic of what I did to the seam.

 

Don't trim em cut em off lol.. I told 4" off my front finders easy.. I mean look wat my Jeep does..
Plus the white 2 door sport you may have seen (its my brothers) we did everything to it in a day ana half.. it went from stock to this..
I cut his front and rear wit a grider and cut'n wheels..
She don't rub nowhere

 

thanks guys for all the great information! waiting to see the 1 inch folds from Dan91. Guess this is where my dremel tool earns its keep.

 

Your going to want to get an angle grinder... You have a jeep you will need it lol

 

Slice and dice and tuck em in tight you might have some fright but youll make it trough the trail alright you might have to stretch out the recover system to get some bite
but hay **** happens in life

 

Same day of puchase xj on 33'sthe eatting up the trail low budget baller 2" wheel spacers and cut wheel wells no lift no death wobble you will find most lift kit you buy dont come with every thing you need to lift youre xj the right way so what do you do you buy wheel spacers cut the fenders slap on some 33" and play in the mud till you buy everything you need for the lift of choice and the tirs you want put it all on and be done with it if you put this on here and that on there you are going to mess everything up and have to do it all over agian you are goin to most likey have to cut the fenders when you lift it so that will al ready be taken care of and you will most like need wheel spacer even with most off set wheels so that out of the way also i own 4 xj's and have lifted 3 of them 2with of them with this part here and that part there and guess what that both need redone and they both have been driven less then the xj that i waited and got every thing i need to do a successful lift IE.dropped pitmen arm tcase spacers longer shocks new u joints stronger stabilizer just cut it space it and wait it worth it that what im doing with my newest 1 too lifes to short to be wrenching on youre truck so play in it instead

 

holy run on sentence batman ^^^^ that was actually pretty hard to read, now i see why i used to get chit for it.

 

I cut and folded mine. I still rub a little bit but coil spacers are gonna fix that tomorrow.

Angle grinder should be the first purchase of every jeep owner.

 

I did the same cut and fold in the front fenders. And i cut and folded the rears as well.







I am on a 2" bb lift with spacers in the front and AAL i the rear with 32/11.5/15

 

I don't really have an up close picture of the inside lip, but I did the cut and fold on the fender and used a big hammer to bend the inner lip over rather than cutting it first.

 

You don't really need to cut that inner seam to fold it, just beat the hell out of it with a bfh.

 

i need to see pictures of the cut and FOLD!!!! please