Spacers

Cherry, despite the jokes and fun on here, there are many who use them and many that refuse to use them. Maintenance is the key, they must be retorqued with every tire rotation and personally, just me, I replace them every year on my daily driver. I run a 2” because I like the stock Baja wheel but hate the backspace. If you don’t like your wheels, get wheels with the backspace you want. When they get all crazy with the math to prove that spacers are “bad” for the bearings, it’s all opinion, as the distance from center is the same with a spacer or with a back spaced wheel. If you run spacers, maintain them. I have had one fail, in an accident, and to be honest, a wheel with the same backspace would have failed as well as the hit was dead nuts on the tire. Lastly, there is an outfit out of Portland that will take the wheels you want, tig weld in a spacer and adjust the lugs to fit, but it’s pricey vs just buying new wheels or just using a spacer.

And just so the naysayers can stop screaming, my 67 Bronco has military humvee wheels tires and run flats...after swapping in the 3/4 ton axles, I had to add a 2” spacer just to move the tires out far enough to steer. They have been on there 14 years now, no issues. I don’t replace those as I only drive it once in a while, but I do maintain them every year and take them to the engine shop to magnaflux them.

My $.02
 
Bojangles said:
There is much debate across many forums for different vehicles about wheel spacers and how they do/do not put more stress on bearings than a proper sized rim.

Ppl get into crazy maths about it.
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Agreed, anything that widens the track of the front tires/suspension. Much past the spindle/hub is going to be weaker because of the leverage the wheels gain when spacers are used, maybe not a lot but the change is there
 
4wd said:
You mention numbers and arguments over the pro/cons takes me back to TW and all the whining about alignment numbers @Bojangles
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some **** dont change man....
tb spacers, wheel spacers, coil spacers, oiled air filters, intakes, chambered vs non chambered mufflers, best oil, it goes on and on.

Ill say this
TB spacer does nothing for us
wheel spacers fill a need but not the best option
in coil spacers blow
small lean type or packer top spacers arent bad
oiled air filters cost maf sensors
no 2nd gen intake on the market will be cooler than the stock 2nd gen intake at 40ish mph... ambient air is ambient air
flowmaster has been tested and chambered mufflers do NOT cost any measurable amount of hp, dyno vids are on you tube and IIRC engine masters
synthetic oil of the proper weight is moar important than the name on the bottle
dont be Mauck

ready, go
 
Bojangles said:
some **** dont change man....
tb spacers, wheel spacers, coil spacers, oiled air filters, intakes, chambered vs non chambered mufflers, best oil, it goes on and on.

Ill say this
TB spacer does nothing for us
wheel spacers fill a need but not the best option
in coil spacers blow
small lean type or packer top spacers arent bad
oiled air filters cost maf sensors
no 2nd gen intake on the market will be cooler than the stock 2nd gen intake at 40ish mph... ambient air is ambient air
flowmaster has been tested and chambered mufflers do NOT cost any measurable amount of hp, dyno vids are on you tube and IIRC engine masters
synthetic oil of the proper weight is moar important than the name on the bottle
dont be Mauck

ready, go
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You are absolutely right again jangly, that's twice today .Stop showing off ****er :p:p
 
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