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Fitting 15 inch rims

Posted: Thu May 07, 2009 3:48 pm
by Jonezy01
Mate has a 94 model 80 series as it came factory with 16's he now wants 15's as he pick up a set of 35inch wrangler MTR but they fowl on the calipers and we were wondering if it safe enough to grind the calipers and if so how much can we take off as it only needs about 1 to 1.5 mm taken

Posted: Thu May 07, 2009 5:08 pm
by abauer01
hey i ground mine, probly shouldnt of but only had to take a small amount off in the end. But since have noticed with my new rims which have custom offset that they crear by a long way. So maybe wheel spacers will allow them to clear abit more. i mite be wrong as i have not tried it.

Posted: Sun May 17, 2009 4:02 pm
by dirty harry
abauer01 what was the offset of your new rims

Posted: Sun May 17, 2009 6:15 pm
by wrinkled bits
hi, i used a 6mm packer on the rear wheels, my rims are 15 x 8 with 10.5 x 15 simex centipedes , works fine, bought the packers from auto barn .

Posted: Mon May 18, 2009 5:44 pm
by mq_camo
thied to fit 10 inch rims to an 80, no go there hey, bit of a bummer.