SFBD square with a Cummins and custom chassis

If I remember correctly just off the top of my head the tires are 235/70-16. That's what I have on the truck right now to get it all set up and what ill drive with until I can afford some big rigs. Their only about a 1/2" different in hieght than the 265/35-22 that ill run on my big rigs.
After all of this patch work now that everything structurally sound again we'll start raising them. I'm gunna wait on extending them until I actually get the new rims though.
04durmax on this site that has a build thread going is a good friend and he's going to let me borrow his 16" alcoas until I can get the 22's so at least I won't be rolling the steel 16's

coming together nicely bro nice job.....

Can't wait to see it painted. Coming along nicely

I got some more work done on the fenders last night. First we cut them where we wanted to split it. I decided to raise mine just a bit lower than the top of the bed rail. I think it was about 3.25". I just put a piece of masking paper on the bed and made a template and than moved it up and boltd the top section back on to hold it. Luckily at school we have an entire pallet of 4" tall piece of 18 gauge someone donated. I took a bunch of those and screwed them onto the outside of the fender to hold it. On the sides I ran wax paper down the bed side so the fiberglass wouldn't stick to it and make a huge mess. We used 2" wide masking tape on the inside and matted the sides and made a new edge to meet to the bed side. Tomorrow ill pull them back off and glass the middle section from the inside and than remove all of the plates. When the plates come off we should have a nice smooth new section that wont need to much body work to be smooth. The main part of doing this is doing all of your strength and build up on the inside. Its just a waste of time to put any glass on the outside other than a temporary hold so you can temove the fender and make the repair on the back. While it was bolted up I went ahead and smoothed the outside down that we put matting on.








Just be sure you have plenty of fiberglass build up around your new edges so it can be trimmed down into the shape you need later and still have plenty of thickness.

Last night we got the inside of the cut glasses up and got the backing plates removed. While it was back off of the bed I roughly trimmed it along the body also. Using some kind of a backer on the outside it the way to go it looks like. The area we had to make to raise the top is almost completely smooth. You can't hardly even feel a transition. I also decided to grind down the holes for the marker lights and tonight ill fill those from the back just using a couple layers of 2" masking tape on the outside as a backer.

These next 2 you can really see how smooth of a transition it is if you make a solid backer on the outside. Just be sure to grind the screws off that are sticking through the inside before you lay your matting down.
The area that meets the body isn't done yet but it's just roughly trimmed in and you'll get the idea.



A shot of the transition and how smooth the new area will come out with a proper backing.


This side is basically done now with the exception of the marker lights. I just have to trim it and do a little filler work.

looks great!!...cant wait to see the finished product!

I may have missed it, but were is "school"?

Franklin tech. I really doubt anyone but guilty will know where that is. The night teacher there is amazing with custom paint. Thats basically all I've done there for the last few months but in the process have gotten ASE certified in autobody and collision repair.
I almost forgot to mention if anyone ever thinks they might want to go to that school you may want to reconsider it. The only reason I've stayed there is the teacher is amazing. The school itself is such a joke and the teacher says he's leaving after this class is done next week.

That's sad to hear, I went through the welding tech class in HS and I thought it was great. My teacher Noah did an amazing job with what he had but that seemed like the problem, he had very little funding to work with. I found it funny that we had to weld pieces of TIG filler rod together so we didn't waste anything to afford our yearly field trip to a welding college, yet the culinary arts class took weekly field trips to competitions or restaurants.

That is one of the biggest issues is lack of funding. Another problem is when you pay $10k to go to school you don't expect to have to deal with high school kids tearing up anything you leave there overnight. They even painted a car outside of the booth and got red over spray over everything we had in the shop last week. You just shouldn't have to deal with stuff like that when you pay that much money to attend a school. The actual paying night time students and the day time high school kids just need different work areas or shops.
Noah is actually still there. He seems like a pretty good guy. The mechanic teacher in the day times name is John. Not sure if he was there when you were but he's an awesome guy also. Most all of the teachers there are doing all they can and trying to make it better but there is only so much they can do without the upper management giving a shit. The people who run that place will be its demise. All they care about is money. Just another situation where greed is going to ruin something that could be great.