Calling all slammed wide tire stepsides...

[BossHogg69]

I'm to the point of fitting the cab and stepside bed onto my finally finished '69 C10 swb chassis and it looks like I'll have to roll the rear fender lip up to clear my rear tires. I'm running 335/30/18's (26" tall) on an 18x12 rear wheel with 7.5" backspacing. I have a static drop on the truck, right now it's at 4.5/6, but depending on what it looks like when I get the body on, I may go to 5.5/7. I'm also running a .500" spacer on each side to even up the track width front to rear, since the disc brake swap pushed the front wheels out some. I've already done some measuring and I know I'm gonna have to tub the bed out to fit the wheels no matter what. My question is really about the fender braces that attach to the inside of the fender lip. I'm thinking about removing the portion that I've drawn the line on in the (primitive) pic below. The red arrow is the portion I'd cut away along the black line all the way around the fender, and was thinking of relocating the brace (yellow arrow) higher up in the fender above the tire. I was just going to cut the tabs off and weld them up in the fender a little higher and go from there. There are a total four braces in each fender, but I think the only ones I really have to worry about moving are the two that are above the tire, not the ones at the bottom of the fender on each side.

Sorry for the lengthy post, hopefully someone may have some advice on this.