I went down to J-money$$$'s house today and we started clearancing my fenders for the 35s that are coming very soon! I got a 35" spare mounted on my spare wheel so we are clearancing with that so when my tires come in, it'll be ready for them.
With my 1" body lift, we did not have to tub the front firewall (as many on here think is necessary). I had to make the arc of the front fenders a little bigger on the side closest to the firewall with an angle grinder. We just marked what I needed to cut off with some tape and it literally only took a few minutes. Then we were able to pound the actual firewall back a little more than an inch with a large sledgehammer.
To check the clearance, we put the front on stands to droop the suspension, then we removed both front struts. We then put a jack under the lower control arms and raised the 35" tire until the bump stops were fully squashed. With the tire fully stuffed, we cycled the steering, looked where it rubbed, lowered the tire and took it off, and pounded the area with the sledge. We had to repeat the process a few times for each side, but now I can steer from lock to lock with a 35" tire fully stuffed and don't get any rubbing (except a little on the frame which you can't do anything about). Best part is, very little trimming an no welding was necessary.
On to the pics..
Comparison shot (315/75/16 next to my 255/85/16)..
Shot of the firewall pounded in and painted and the fender cut..
Shot of what I trimmed off the front fenders..
Shot of the finished product (still with 33s on)..
Full shot..
I still have to do the rear, but my biggest worry was the front so that done now!
On a side note, the extra leverage that's caused by my panhard drop actually bent the holy sh*t out of the frame side panhard bar mount. So....
PANHARD DROPS SUCK! unless they are heavily reinforced and you put a spacer in the old bolt holes to keep the mount from collapsing in on itself.
I had to basically reshape the mount by prying on it for a 1/2 hour just to get the panhard bar back in the stock location. Then I hacked the drop bracket off with a sawzall. It will be staying in the stock position for good now because extended panhard bars shove your driveshaft right into the gas tank/gas tank skid and panhard drop brackets just ruin the whole damn mount. The lesser of all the evils is to just keep it in the stock location and deal with the axle being off center a little. On my hour long drive home up the mountain, I couldn't tell one bit of difference in the handling without the panhard drop installed so I'm 100% convinced now that they don't do jack anyways.
. College is my main focus. I love learning. Enough of my own story 
