Wheel spacers or offset wheels
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Wheel spacers or offset wheels
I need some advice. I want to widen my axles 1-1 1/2". I want to get 15x10 wheels and should I just get offset wheels or wheel spacers? If I go with offset wheels, how much offset do I need to get 1-1 1/2" wider? Any suggestions on where to get cheap black steel wheels?
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Here is my truck with 15 X 8, 3.5" BS who knows what brand black wagon wheels, the lower pictures show it with a 1.5" spacer if that gives you an idea.
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After 1.5" spacers:
spacers are not a necessity for me at this point. I have all the crap to convert to V6 Calipers, LC Rotors, Turbo Diaphragm and bigger MC-supposedly you need to run a spacer though I will find out when I get the junk on.
eventually I would like to convert these rims to a DIY bead lock which would had 1" or so width...
Before spacers:
After 1.5" spacers:
spacers are not a necessity for me at this point. I have all the crap to convert to V6 Calipers, LC Rotors, Turbo Diaphragm and bigger MC-supposedly you need to run a spacer though I will find out when I get the junk on.
eventually I would like to convert these rims to a DIY bead lock which would had 1" or so width...
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Maybe 15x10's with 4.75" Backspace will get me what I want. How much lift do you have? I have 33's and want 35's. I have a 3" lift and may need more to fit 35's. Maybe a 1" body lift?
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spacers have mixed opinions. A lot of people love them. I would recommend checking on them periodically. Especially after a wheeling trip.
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www.datinfab.com has wheel spacers for the cheapest I have found...
also are wheel spacers good on a DD
also are wheel spacers good on a DD
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I've run various spacers ever since I got my '85 about 12 years ago, has been a DD for a number of those years. As long as you check the lug nuts (there will be 2 sets of them) periodically, the seem to be fine. To check the lugs, you will need to remove the wheel, torque the lug nuts on the spacer/adapter and then re-install the wheel and of course torque those nuts and re-check them after a little driving. So it is more work than no spacers.
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Put my spacer on today! I think my lugs need to be longer though. I can only get about 1/2" of threads on the lugs when I put the spacer on and I would like the lugs to be about 1/2" longer. Any ideas on where to get longer lugs. I think the stock ones are 44 mm long.
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Do your wheel spacers bolt on to the hub with supplied nuts or do they just slide over your existing lugnuts effectively shortening the usuable threads. If they slide on I would toss them in the trash. There will be too much stress on the lug nuts and I would be worried about losing a wheel. Constant re-torquing will be required. Only use a spacer that mounts to your hub (on your original lug studs) and holds your wheel to the spacer with is own set of lugnuts. That would mean 12 lugnuts per wheel. 6 holding the spacer to your hub and 6 holding your wheel to the spacer