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Started monkeying with the bed today. Got it squared up and ready to bolt the floor down. The box sides need a lot of holes welded and the fenders need a significant amount of body work. Looked at new fenders and summit racing had them for 350.00 ea but the shipping was 400. four hundred for the pair.... Today's truck lesson was on rear axel changes. I put a 84 C10 axel that I traded some 2A goodies for because it had new Richmond gears, Eaton LSD and new disc brakes on it. With the 4" bs of the wheels it measures 74.5" outside tire to outside tire. There is approximately 1" between the inner tire and the bed box on each side. Here you can see fender lip touching the tire. No chance of running a fleetside bed with this setup. Luckily the Qa1 rear suspension will let me raise the height up quite a bit. As pictured the rear fender lip is 26" from the floor. The more you know. I will most likely raise it 2" and consider trimming or reshaping the inner fender lip.