M35A2 Bed Clearance Over Tires

[fungus]

Fellas,

I hate to start a thread over something this simple, please delete this if I'm missing something stupidly obvious. I searched and I looked through the dimension drawings to no avail.

Can someone measure the distance from the top of their frame rails to the area directly over their rear tires? I don't have a bed for mine, and when I fabricate one I need to know the clearance I need to build in to account for axle travel.
It might be difficult to measure what I've asked for, so if you can just get your rig on a level surface and measure the distance between the top of your tire and the place it would hit on the underside of the bed (if it had unlimited travel).

Thank you!

 

[gringeltaube]

Does this help.....?

 

[fungus]

gringeltaube, it absolutely does. That is fantastic. Where did I miss this?

 

[gringeltaube]

Where did I miss this?

Lol.... Not sure if I ever did post it......

 

[fungus]

Well that's a relief.
Would you say that the tires will actually travel above the bottom of the 4" C channel? The lower the load is, the better for me.

 

[NDT]

That depends entirely on the terrain you plan to conquer. If your truck is a pavement queen then no. Hells Revenge at Moab? Better go the entire 10".

 

[fungus]

Copy that, 10" it is. I want to design it for full travel.
Thanks folks.

 

[Superthermal]

Remember some guys here may be running different size tires that will change this clearance need. I know with my M813 that running 16.00R20s the bed and tires with no modifications will hit the bed just barely. So I booted my bed up 3" from stock. If you plan on running 395 that may be a different height is all I am saying,.
Good luck