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<blockquote data-quote="TreeClimber" data-source="post: 1453641" data-attributes="member: 16101"><p>Ordered a bunch of parts, and got some bling too! I'll post those up later. </p><p> </p><p>For now, I thought long and hard about going to a "high hood" front fender design, and I may still have to do that. But for now, I'm going to see if I can stuff big tires under my existing front fenders. Measured height to the fender flairs is about 6 inches. But if I remove the flairs, I get almost 9 inches of space. Now I'll lose 2.5 of those available inches by going from a 37 to a 42 inch tire. So, by pictures, I'll have about 6.5 inches of uptravel before hitting fender. Since both the shocks and bumpstops are both set at 4 inches of uptravel (nitrogen bumps), that gives me an additional 2.5 inches for twisting of the axle due to articulation. Really don't know if that's enough, kinda doubt it, but I'll really need to get the tires and then twist up the suspension to find out. </p><p> </p><p>In the mean time, I tried to see how much room I could gain, by some minor interior fender trimming. </p><p> </p><p>In case I messed up, I thankfully have a spare set of matching fenders (even painted correct)</p><p> </p><p>Before pic:</p><p>Trimming the fender pic:</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TreeClimber, post: 1453641, member: 16101"] Ordered a bunch of parts, and got some bling too! I'll post those up later. For now, I thought long and hard about going to a "high hood" front fender design, and I may still have to do that. But for now, I'm going to see if I can stuff big tires under my existing front fenders. Measured height to the fender flairs is about 6 inches. But if I remove the flairs, I get almost 9 inches of space. Now I'll lose 2.5 of those available inches by going from a 37 to a 42 inch tire. So, by pictures, I'll have about 6.5 inches of uptravel before hitting fender. Since both the shocks and bumpstops are both set at 4 inches of uptravel (nitrogen bumps), that gives me an additional 2.5 inches for twisting of the axle due to articulation. Really don't know if that's enough, kinda doubt it, but I'll really need to get the tires and then twist up the suspension to find out. In the mean time, I tried to see how much room I could gain, by some minor interior fender trimming. In case I messed up, I thankfully have a spare set of matching fenders (even painted correct) Before pic: Trimming the fender pic: [/QUOTE]
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