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Originally Posted by Epic Ed
It looks like your upward wheel travel is obstructed by the size of the tire. No?
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No. The pictures are not the best. Even with the front suspension compressed as much as it was in the pictures, I was able to turn the wheel fully in each direction. Sure the tire touched but it's slight enough that no damge will be caused to the tire or fender(s). The amount of rubbing would be gone if I had an extra 1/2" of room, if that.
Once our small winter storm passes I'll be taking care of the fenders. Light amount of trimming and will chop out the section of firewall that is rubbing and move it back about 1-2".
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Originally Posted by Flamedx4
Those are great pictures of tires that don't really fit. I'm amazed that you can turn at all, even the slightest bump while turning must rub something fierce. If you are happy with that little clearance then I can't imagine why you think you need a SAS.
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The main reason to do the SAS is for added strength. The Toyota IFS is weak, plain and simple. Who in their right mind would want to work on that front end? All those moving parts, so many things to go wrong.
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Originally Posted by Flamedx4
Interesting about the SSRs actually being the stated size. I've known 2 sets of SSRs and one set of TSL radials and all three were a full size smaller than nominal! I thought it was just a Swamper trait...
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I have owned a few sets of swampers, TSL(bias), radials, and SSR's. The only swampers that were off in measurement vs. actual height was the radials. Stated as 33's but really about 31.5" tall. My old 34x9.5's were really close to 34" tall, my 33x12.5's were nice and close to 33". Only tire I was disapointed with were my 35" BFG Muds...which were came up to about 34" tall.
The best part about adding these 35's to the stock truck is that now my wife is happy. Even with the 33's on the truck she thought that it looked odd and was always asking when I'd put bigger tires onto it. She likes the look of fenderwells that are filled. She was used to our old Toyota which was pure trail rig rather than a DD. She even asked when here truck would get bigger tires, that's another project all together
