made my own homemade whitewalls!! lets see urs!

Nice job. Hey OneTruth, what brand & size are your tires? It would be nice to know cause some brands have a lot less white rubber underneath.

 

Heres my 51, just did the fronts, a couple of used tires I had layin around, drove em all last summer no problems...

 

I cheated and had a tire shop shave mine with a machine same concept but machine keeps grinding die in a fixed position so it grinds a even depth around the tire and makes a really straight line,I just felt it was safer and cleaner then doing it with a grinder:

 

These look fantastic!!! Ill check on them sizes 55 1st series and ill post it. Need to see more pics please!!!

 

Steve, did you use a grinder? They look good.

 

man that's what makes this site fun

 

This looks awessssooooooome!!!!!!!!

 

Fronts:205/75/15 milestar touring
Rears: 225/75/15 milestar touring

 

Grinding white walls is a time honored tradition. Back in the day many of the tire stores had a machine that would do this job. Every once in a while I see one for sale.

 

I'm on my second set

 

What a freakin ugly POS

 

I hand ground mine - werent wide enough for me so I smoothed 'em out and painted them . Tried the Fusion paint and didnt like it , tried some others but I'm sticking with Kilz stain blocking primer in spraybomb - in fact I just got back from wallyworld to pick up another can !

 

Here is mine the guy next door didnt
know it could be done ,So i did a pair
on a trailer.

 

Painted mine... front and rear tires dont match.. so I had to make them way wider than I wanted. I have some thin white wall tires that are good. I wanna get it driving good before I worry about all the fancy stuff though.

 

the white letter tires have the white out farther then most white walls problem is getting a nice edge on the out side..white walls you just go to the line and stop.I played around with this and very interested in working with it some more..seems alot of the aftermarket www have a short wear life and for the cost a set of grinds will out last and cost less then half.

 

Some say it weaken the side wall by grinding them!! anybody ever take the thickness on both a www as well as on a stock tire and on a set of grinds?? I be interested in know what the thicknesses are..

 

well after reading up on here for a while, I am gonna go pick up a cheapo HF grinder and go to town... well until the fawker burns out on me! Snaggin some "new" used tires this week hopefully and fire it up. I will report back once done.

 

Ill be keepin my eye out, cant wait to see em pictures!

 

Me too! lol

 

What's an urs??

 

What are you referring to?

 

With these posts urs could stand for the "usual Ratty stuff" Ron

 

A variable speed grinder on a fairly low speed worked best for me. I used 80 grit then finished off with some 120.

 

Did you do it in Krylon or Rustoleum in Flat or Gloss?

 

well i decided to try out my new HF Grinder....





was kind of sloppy with it at first then I got the hang of it. Not bad for my first time using a grinder. Luckily these tires have to be replaced anyways, so it doesn't really matter

 

Most tires the white goes to within about 1/2" of the wheel.
I like to do them off the wheel to get a straight inside edge.

 

I tried different paints including stitts airplane fabric paint. It was more flexible than latex, but when i let the pressure down to 30 the tire flexed and the paint cracked. I parked near a used car lot and the guys mistook my cracked white paint for a 60 year old tire. So even if the sidewalls don't look cherry, there are benefits... I just left the cracks.

 

Came out great! And those wheels are flippin sweet!!

 

I ground mine out a little. I only went in towards the rim.