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Check out this post to see just how I did it!!:wink: http://www.steelsoldiers.com/5-ton-up/28089-my-5-ton-singled-out-mounting-big-20s.html

Thanks for the compliment on my truck. Too bad this debate is taking place within a thread titled full fenders! LOL! Wish you had started a new one titled "Does flipping the hubs affect wheel bearing life". Then we could get a LOT more opinions and more importantly facts about the subject. My...

Very, very class act. Your comment was much more puzzling than it was offensive. No apologies needed. Once again, you show class! Thank you.

Thanks Alredneck and everyone else for the compliments.!.! You are right, there are tons of good folks here willing help and support each other. These photos show one of the trailers I pull that the full fenders really demonstrate their functionality. This truck will be used to pull from the...

REB87, you are my new best friend!! Sticking up for me at every turn!!! LOL!! You are right , though, the tread plate was chosen because of the tread plate that was already there.

This reply really needed a more in depth reply than I gave it the first time around. The wheel bearings on any vehicle are loaded in relation to the center line of the tire(single) or tires(dual). When flipping the hubs you do not move the position of the tire(or very little) and you do not move...

Thank you Reb87! I felt like tire capacity was what the beastmaster was getting at, but would like to hear his technical data backing up his statement!! Lord this forum is eat up with the IKMTYD's!! ;-)

Ok. This is your chance to enlighten everyone! I "aint gonna pull much weight with single wheels for long before the dot catches up to me" , for WHAT!?!?

:-D Thank you!! Thank you very much!!

:?: Hmmmm! :?: Gosh, guess that just slipped my mind!!;-)

There is 5 inches of clearance, more than enough for all practical purposes. Very few people with MVs will ever have their stuff in the extreme situations that the military invisioned when designing these trucks. The fifth wheel, if I remember right, is 4 inches above the fenders, once again...

Thanks guys for the compliments. I am posting some more pics that show the stiffeners along the edges. The flat fenders with "square" profile maintain the non aerodynamic look of the older military vehicles!

I will look and see if I can find the drawing! Did not think I would need to do another set and it might have gotten canned!

I used 3/16" plate. Looking real close in the photos, you can see that I used a 3/8" X 1 1/2" flat bar bent to fit under the perimeter edges of the fenders, inboard and outboard to brace them.

If you think about just a minute, the wheel bearings stay in the same place no matter which way the hubs are installed. Sooo, if you got wheel bearing trouble it aint the hub causing the problem.

My 5 ton has to earn its keep which means pulling a detach lowboy sometimes. This type of trailer does not have a deck over the rear drive wheels like a flatbed trailer. I saw right quick that the big Goodyear 395's were gonna be shooting rocks out like a Gatlin gun!! Full fenders were the...