http://www.lowrangeoffroad.com/samaxles.htm
Anyone running wheel spacers? if so, what size?
Are they strictly off-road only?
Some of the kits going around go out to 2 inches!
Must have to have huge mud-guards?
Any pics (before and after spacers)?
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Wheel spacers
Unless you have ver special rims with, perhaps, excessive backspacing, wheel spacers are a bad idea.
Yes, they are illegal
They result in twice the wheelnuts to loosen (and they do)
They screw up scrub radius increaseing wheelbearing wear and making the steering very heavy at low speed.
They are far dearer than getting your wheels offset or even buying another set of wheels with the correct offset.
The increase in scrub radius also means you have to do more guard trimming to run the same size tyre in the front s the tyre moves throgh a bigger arc when steered.
If you had V6 vitara alloys and wanted to run them on a NT sierra... that might be the only reason to run them. Otherwise, just get the right wheels.
PS, you can buy 3" wheelspacers from various US sources. Doesn;t make it any more right
As you can tell, I am crazy for them.
Steve.
Yes, they are illegal
They result in twice the wheelnuts to loosen (and they do)
They screw up scrub radius increaseing wheelbearing wear and making the steering very heavy at low speed.
They are far dearer than getting your wheels offset or even buying another set of wheels with the correct offset.
The increase in scrub radius also means you have to do more guard trimming to run the same size tyre in the front s the tyre moves throgh a bigger arc when steered.
If you had V6 vitara alloys and wanted to run them on a NT sierra... that might be the only reason to run them. Otherwise, just get the right wheels.
PS, you can buy 3" wheelspacers from various US sources. Doesn;t make it any more right
As you can tell, I am crazy for them.
Steve.
[quote="greg"] some say he is a man without happy dreams, or that he sees silver linings on clouds and wonders why they are not platinum... all we know, is he's called the stevie.[/quote]
Gwagensteve wrote:Unless you have ver special rims with, perhaps, excessive backspacing, wheel spacers are a bad idea.
Yes, they are illegal
They result in twice the wheelnuts to loosen (and they do)
They screw up scrub radius increaseing wheelbearing wear and making the steering very heavy at low speed.
They are far dearer than getting your wheels offset or even buying another set of wheels with the correct offset.
The increase in scrub radius also means you have to do more guard trimming to run the same size tyre in the front s the tyre moves throgh a bigger arc when steered.
If you had V6 vitara alloys and wanted to run them on a NT sierra... that might be the only reason to run them. Otherwise, just get the right wheels.
PS, you can buy 3" wheelspacers from various US sources. Doesn;t make it any more right
As you can tell, I am crazy for them.
Steve.
i can see what your saying there steve but getting your wheels offset or buying new big offset wheels is going to have exactly the same effect on your scrub, bearing wear etc. as running wheel spacers......
just my 2c.
Muz.
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correct, but spacers are more expensive, double the number of wheelnuts and add weight over an offset wheel (for the same offset)muz_ook wrote: i can see what your saying there steve but getting your wheels offset or buying new big offset wheels is going to have exactly the same effect on your scrub, bearing wear etc. as running wheel spacers......
just my 2c.
Muz.
Steve.
[quote="greg"] some say he is a man without happy dreams, or that he sees silver linings on clouds and wonders why they are not platinum... all we know, is he's called the stevie.[/quote]
yep i can respect what you have said steve,just wanted to voice that...
this is most likely not the spacers fault though. lack of maintenance maybe.
Muz.
mrRocky wrote:my wheel fell off last week 2" spacers
this is most likely not the spacers fault though. lack of maintenance maybe. Muz.
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Yes, but they are definitely not set and forget. And mostly the nuts pinch up on free machining alloy that have a tendency to wallow out over time, so the wheels have to come periodically to check the tension of the spacer.
Spacers are OK, as I said, if there is no other option, but there are reasons why they are illegal.
Steve.
Spacers are OK, as I said, if there is no other option, but there are reasons why they are illegal.
Steve.
[quote="greg"] some say he is a man without happy dreams, or that he sees silver linings on clouds and wonders why they are not platinum... all we know, is he's called the stevie.[/quote]
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