POS fender roller from AutoBody Tool Mart !

[bleach8484]

So I cheaped out and bought a fender roller from AutoBody Tool Mart. Thought I was doin good by saving $50 over the Eastwood.


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v335/bleach8484/13742.gif
So where the arrow is pointing there are two cotter pins. And everytime I try to apply pressure, they snap. I put the washers infront of them, try to be extremely gentle when applying pressure, and everytime, they snap. I conclude the only way to solve the problem is to weld washers onto the bolt.

But its the principle here, I paid $200 for something that should be designed efectively to work, and not have to be modified to work.

So they are gonna refund my money, And send a pick up for it Monday.

[Ninjabread]

Thanks for the warning...

[bleach8484]

Looked really sturdy and nice in the pic...

If anyone has an Eastwood. could they take a pic of that area and post it for comparison? I will try and take a pic of this one and post it

[S13FREEAAK]

Whats sad is they probably bought an Eastwood one and copied it. Thats bad when you can't even make an exact copy work.

[mr_240sx]

were you atleast able to roll your fenders with it before they pick it back up? lol

[bleach8484]

Roll, But not even completely flat... The main reason was to pull. But oh well.

Time to bust out the driveshaft and the jack.

[mr_240sx]

why bust out the driveshaft?
im confused.....btw just jam a pry bar between your tire and fender and pull it slowly
make sure you put a rag over your wheel to make sure you dont scratch it
thats how i pulled mine

[S14DB]

http://www.eastwoodco.com/images/us//local/products/detail/p16482.jpg

[slow_sr20]

we've got an eastwood and had similar issues-i forget how we fixed it (i know big help) either way tools will break. i will look at ours and try to figure out what we did. i think we simply moved the pin on the boom to the other hole and it started to work again....

[projectRDM]

I've got an Eastwood here that I've used the shit out of, it finally broke a cotter pin but that's it. My only complaint is that it's not short enough to do severely lowered cars, I had to pull the rear coilovers off and let the suspension sag to give enough room to use it. Otherwise it's great.

[bleach8484]

After I get my refund... You wanna pull my rear's Russ? Im over in Dunwoody...

[DoriftoPnoy]

yes thanks for the heads up. but im sure a baller like yourself *sees you have GT-Cs:yum: * could of afford the extra $50 for the eastwood one :p .

[Jason240sx]

what happened to the baseball bat technique he he he

[SimpleSexy180]

Thanks. I guess I will stick to eastwood when i decide to buy one.

[brainfood]

www.poweredbymax.net

They have one that is designed for lowered cars. Supposed to be good quality too havnt ordered yet but probably will when I go back to metal fronts

[vvtisupra]

i've broken thyat peice on a eastwood =P i think you are maxing out the threaded part.

[StyllRPS13]

thanx for the heads up mang!.... good thing u get your money back..

[slideways2004]

yeah, the only ting i hate on teh eastwood is you have to unbolt stiff/lowered suspensions. on stock suspensions it works great.

[projectRDM]

After I get my refund... You wanna pull my rear's Russ? Im over in Dunwoody...

$700 an hour, plus beer, strippers, and blow. Bring it out any time.

[BOROSUN]

i got the eastwood one, my cotter pin also broke but, it's a easy fix.

[bleach8484]

I could understand if it broke after a few pulls, but it was EVERY time i applied pressure. If i was to put the pin in the other spot... It wouldnt even reach the fender.

And Russ.... I can do the beer, possibly the Blow and maybe scrounge up a few sluts. But $700 is a little outa reach

[WISH ONE]

hahahah beer.. blow.. b!tches.. good sh!t

[CKAMC]

Man its all about the wooden baseball bat!

LOL one of my friends was doing a quick pull at the track and he forgot he still had someone rolling on the other side of the car...lowers the car... WOOPS looks like you have an extra 20mm of space now :keke:

rather brake a baseball bat than a fender roller... take some time and use a heatgun and your good to go.

[yokotas13]

i got mine for 180 +20 shippingh off evbay
JGT i thinkg?

its an eastwood with differnet stickers

[!Zar!]

My eastwood hasn't had any problems like that.

But if that was the only problem you had, I don't see why you didn't want to spend the $5 in gas and parts to make it reliable instead of going through the hassle to return it. whatever...

Russ is right on cars lowered with coilovers. It can't go low enough without dropping the arm.

[projectRDM]

I used a lead pipe on my old car years ago, it worked well enough to get the car rolling until I could do a nicer job, the lead is soft enough to give and rolls smoothly across the lip.

[swayray]

we've used that eastwood fender roller and its that darn cotter pin that would break after 5 mins of rolling... good thing we have a bunch of those pins at work...

[chmercer]

why not just put a nail or something in where the cotter pin goes

[yokotas13]

thats weird man, all yall been having problem, and i never have had a problem, adn i have rolled 4 cars fenders so far, and havent had a problem with it.

but i do think its funny you wont fix it, but return it instead.

[A Spec Products]

i also have the east wood roller

and no problems with it

it might be kinda hard to return it once its used tho?