If it's too close to the fender, there's not much you can do, and your tire is probably as big as YOU can go with your rims.
The problem you have to go bigger is because the wheels you have don't have enough backspace (the distance from the inside edge of the wheel, to the mounting face. (Very typical of the slot mags from the old days).
If you had too much backspace (meaning the tire is too close to the spring), you could use a spacer between the wheel and the drum, to move the tire away a bit. That's what 69 rtse did.