Bolt on wheel spacers, yay or nay??

[CG]

Funny how sometimes you get hung for cutting your dash and somedays its your truck do what you want.

This is the first time Ive heard outrage (exaggerating lol) about spacers. With all the crazy tire and wheel combos on cars and trucks these days I see spacers and adaptors all the time. Obviously you don't want to go overboard with them. But if you are just looking for a little move why not.


yes I know a cut dash isn't a "safety" thing =)

[RustyPile]

Originally Posted by CG

Funny how sometimes you get hung for cutting your dash and somedays its your truck do what you want.

This is the first time Ive heard outrage (exaggerating lol) about spacers. With all the crazy tire and wheel combos on cars and trucks these days I see spacers and adaptors all the time. Obviously you don't want to go overboard with them. But if you are just looking for a little move why not.


yes I know a cut dash isn't a "safety" thing =)

I guess having raced high powered race cars for years, I have a vested interest in safety. Part of my shop's business was building race chassis.. I did not want any liability issues to surface...

Installing longer lugs and using spacers to move the wheel out a small amount might not make a big difference in strength or bearing load, but those forces will certainly increase.. But those God awful "adapters that allow a five lug wheel to fit a 6 lug axle/hub should be outlawed and illegal to produce.. But I read all the time about some dufus doing something stupid behind the wheel near a crowd of onlookers.. Something fails, a wheel/tire comes off, a ball joint fails, or an axle breaks and people get hurt..

I do not gamble when it comes to safety.. I'd much rather err on the side of safety..