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What Baskspacing for 14.5"

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What Baskspacing for 14.5"

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I am considering 15x10 wheels for my disco with the potential to run a 13.5 or a 14.5" tyres in the future?
Is a 3" Backspacing enough ? Will it cause potential stress and damage to bearings etc..?
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Re: What Baskspacing for 14.5"

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Jay wrote:I am considering 15x10 wheels for my disco with the potential to run a 13.5 or a 14.5" tyres in the future?
Is a 3" Backspacing enough ? Will it cause potential stress and damage to bearings etc..?
I beleive 3" backspacing should be ok, but with the ten inch rims your scrub radius is gonna be fairly large.
So its gonna be harder to steer, one benefit is if you loose all forward momentum turning your wheels left to right gives you more variety of contact surface which will increase your chances of finding a higher traction bite and give you further forward momentum ;)

The bearings should cop it but I cants stand by that as i dont know wat size tyre your intending to run, others will have a better opinion on the strength issues.
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Why so wide?
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TuffRR wrote:Why so wide?
why not :D
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Post by andrew e »

i have a set of locked 15 by 10s with 3.5" and 38x14.5s and they do touch the radius arms. i'd reccomend more.

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andrew e wrote:i have a set of locked 15 by 10s with 3.5" and 38x14.5s and they do touch the radius arms. i'd reccomend more.

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you will find the point you space em enought to clear the radius arms you will start rubbing more on the front and back of each inner wheel well.
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yes, but it is easier to self clear wheel wells than trailing arms :D

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andrew e wrote:yes, but it is easier to self clear wheel wells than trailing arms :D

Andrew

You can always cut from fender flares
Andrew haven't tried to limit your steering to avoid rubbing?
Is hard to steer with 14.5" deflated?
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Jay,

If you want to go big, hydro steering is inevitable...
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DiscoDino wrote:Jay,

If you want to go big, hydro steering is inevitable...
Even for 13.5" will you need hydro? Guess it will be hard to steer when deflating
How many of you guys are running hydro?

Nadim are the Big Guys here(George and Rachad) running hydro at all?

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Rashad is, he's running hydro assist, so am I, we're the only ones in the area I think...

I don't think it is necessary, but I've been through too many incidents where I was not able to steer at ALL and had to rock the truck in tricky situations to get the wheels to turn...

At ~300$ fully installed, its well worth it (but you still have the Rover ball joints, no?)

I did it mainly because I knew I was going 42...
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DiscoDino wrote:Rashad is, he's running hydro assist, so am I, we're the only ones in the area I think...

I don't think it is necessary, but I've been through too many incidents where I was not able to steer at ALL and had to rock the truck in tricky situations to get the wheels to turn...

At ~300$ fully installed, its well worth it (but you still have the Rover ball joints, no?)

Yes I still have Rover ball joints so won't wotk i guess for the time being I am staying with 36 -12.5"

I did it mainly because I knew I was going 42...
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