Front Highline Fender Purpose

6-2=4" effective backspacing

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Is it a penis joke?

A man catches a goldfish one day and the fish says to him, "If you let me go, I'll grant you three wishes."

The man thought for a while. "I wish...," he said, "...that I was able to slow my inevitable decline into the morass of delusion and paranoia that I know from hard-won experience lies ahead, its path so clear to all but the damned soul who even now takes his first heedless steps upon it."

The goldfish seems somehow apologetic. "I don't really know how I'd accomplish that," it says. "Sorry."

The man smiles sadly. "You never do."
 
A man catches a goldfish one day and the fish says to him, "If you let me go, I'll grant you three wishes."

The man thought for a while. "I wish...," he said, "...that I was able to slow my inevitable decline into the morass of delusion and paranoia that I know from hard-won experience lies ahead, its path so clear to all but the damned soul who even now takes his first heedless steps upon it."

The goldfish seems somehow apologetic. "I don't really know how I'd accomplish that," it says. "Sorry."

The man smiles sadly. "You never do."

Nothing like some existential dread on a Wednesday.

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I re-did the battery cables. I felt that turned out good. The only thing I don’t like is that the PDC is tilted, but I got tired of trying to bent the AC lines out of the way plus it makes it easier for shorty me to view.



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Regardless of how many inches each highline fender has at the bottom of the fender, the tire will rub 1/3 - 1/2" up the arch of the fender. We should start a thread showing which highlines offer the best clearance in the market. I'm betting Savvy does.

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Here is the flux fender with a 40inch on center line no stretch.

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Here's a 40 in the Motobilts, maybe an inch of stretch. The real clearance factor is a combination of steering angle and balljoint to center of tire at stuff, though. At least in my case, @sierradmax is pretty accurate with the critical clearance location, If I had much more steering angle I'd be in the fender pretty good at lock/stuff.

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Here's a 40 in the Motobilts, maybe an inch of stretch. The real clearance factor is a combination of steering angle and balljoint to center of tire at stuff, though. At least in my case, @sierradmax is pretty accurate with the critical clearance location, If I had much more steering angle I'd be in the fender pretty good at lock/stuff.

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For that to be useful, we need to see full articulation at full steering lock.
 
Regardless of how many inches each highline fender has at the bottom of the fender, the tire will rub 1/3 - 1/2" up the arch of the fender. We should start a thread showing which highlines offer the best clearance in the market. I'm betting Savvy does.

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The flat lines of the MB make this easier to do remote. Based off my earlier measurements and their rendering, Motobilt Hatchet High Line.

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For that to be useful, we need to see full articulation at full steering lock.

Agreed, that's just hard to find a picture of, lol. I have a few on the wrong side.

Not really stuffed, but maybe an inch or so left up here. Hard to tell if I'm at lock, but I think it's close looking at the rear tire. Like I said, I turn like a school bus, lol.

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Agreed, that's just hard to find a picture of, lol. I have a few on the wrong side.

Not really stuffed, but maybe an inch or so left up here. Hard to tell if I'm at lock, but I think it's close looking at the rear tire. Like I said, I turn like a school bus, lol.

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In my best David Attenborough voice - So rare to see a Gator in the desert...

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interesting. You have a good 2-1/2" more clearance behind the tire right where you need it as compared to the MB's

This thread is starting to sound like it might be expensive for me, lol. Luckily to gain the additional uptravel to need it, I'd need to drop a bunch of money on redoing my steering.