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Mike Peters

shares his experience with Super Swamper SSR 265/70-16

A shot of the left rear wheel well. This area of the rear wheel wells is where rubbing most commonly occurs on discos as you go up in tire size.

For these tires, I only needed to trim away about two inches of this corner notch along the bottom of the fender. If you look closely, you can also see something of a "trim line" along the inside rear as you go up the fender. We carefully took the trim up about three inches in this direction

Zzzzip! Just like cutting a beer can with a band saw! Here you can see how the vertical trim starts deeper at the bottom, but takes a line that tries to blend in with the overall fender line.

Voila - This is the only "cutting" that was done to fit these Swampers on a disco with OME springs (which give about a 2" lift). After this cut, we tamped the inside leading edge of the fender using a rubber mallet, bending in the cuff as much as possible without making too tight of a bend, thereby chipping the paint. This was REALLY hard to do with an aluminum fender, as there was a lot of spring in the aluminum. A proper body shop could probably just trim out the inside cuff and round it off, but we opted to try it ourselves first.

The fit with the Swamper radial in place.

This shot was taken with the front end ramped. Note: This is with standard bump-stops in place. I highly recommend bigger bump-stops with this application, as ramping cannot possible duplicate the upward travel you might receive in a field environment, as momentum is not taken into consideration. This degree of "stuffage" is the prime reason for rolling the inside fender cuff as much as possible.

A Close-Up of that stuff shot. You can see that the 1.5 inch back, 3 inches up was pretty much the absolute minimum trim necessary to fit these tires.

We reversed up the ramp to make sure the radials fit well up front. Considering the fact that we had an ARB bumper, there was plenty of room.

This ramp view provides a shot of us stuffing the radial into the rear wheel well. This is with stock bump-stops. Taller bump-stops are recommended for this application.

Same photo-op as above, but taken from the opposite side. You can see that the front has no issues with the tire. And not bad travel for the rear OME's, considering I still had the rear swaybar in place at the time of these photos.

	A shot of the left rear wheel well. This area of the rear wheel wells is where rubbing most commonly occurs on discos as you go up in tire size.
	For these tires, I only needed to trim away about two inches of this corner notch along the bottom of the fender. If you look closely, you can also see something of a "trim line" along the inside rear as you go up the fender. We carefully took the trim up about three inches in this direction
	Zzzzip! Just like cutting a beer can with a band saw! Here you can see how the vertical trim starts deeper at the bottom, but takes a line that tries to blend in with the overall fender line.
	Voila - This is the only "cutting" that was done to fit these Swampers on a disco with OME springs (which give about a 2" lift). After this cut, we tamped the inside leading edge of the fender using a rubber mallet, bending in the cuff as much as possible without making too tight of a bend, thereby chipping the paint. This was REALLY hard to do with an aluminum fender, as there was a lot of spring in the aluminum. A proper body shop could probably just trim out the inside cuff and round it off, but we opted to try it ourselves first.
	The fit with the Swamper radial in place.
	This shot was taken with the front end ramped. Note: This is with standard bump-stops in place. I highly recommend bigger bump-stops with this application, as ramping cannot possible duplicate the upward travel you might receive in a field environment, as momentum is not taken into consideration. This degree of "stuffage" is the prime reason for rolling the inside fender cuff as much as possible.
	A Close-Up of that stuff shot. You can see that the 1.5 inch back, 3 inches up was pretty much the absolute minimum trim necessary to fit these tires.
	We reversed up the ramp to make sure the radials fit well up front. Considering the fact that we had an ARB bumper, there was plenty of room.
	This ramp view provides a shot of us stuffing the radial into the rear wheel well. This is with stock bump-stops. Taller bump-stops are recommended for this application.
	Same photo-op as above, but taken from the opposite side. You can see that the front has no issues with the tire. And not bad travel for the rear OME's, considering I still had the rear swaybar in place at the time of these photos.