tweakedlogic
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- City, State
- memphis, tn
- Year, Model & Trim Level
- '92 XLT
I am terrible with photos. I get excited and just work, forgetting I have a great camera on my phone.
My tires were worn and I wanted to improve fuel economy by lowering RPM at speed. I took some 17"x 8 Pony wheels from a Mustang, (I forgot to get the back spacing) and used some 2" spacers I had, and mounted 265/70/17 Destination A/T (31.7 x 10.7).
I didn't want to lift the truck if I could avoid it, and I don't mind cutting. On the left side I did have to trim the corner from the grey plastic side board thing, and I used two heavy zip ties and pulled the inner fender back to the body mount. I still have a very slight rub on the bump molded into the rear of the left inner fender by the outside of the tire briefly at near full lock. That's it so far. I might go ahead and crank the bars up 1/5-3/4 inch would bring me level with the rear. It's probably time for an alignment anyway. Also I think if I used a pair of 1.5-1.75 inch spacers on the front, that might alleviate the rubbing altogether. That would actually work well since the rear are tucked into the fender a little more.
After stepping back and looking at my work I was very unhappy with the faded and scratched grey plastic bumper and lower panels, so I sprayed them with Plastidip. It turned out great. I'll rock this for a while until they start looking bad and spray with bed liner instead.
I will take better pics of what I did tomorrow. I also made an air panel in the hopes to reduce drag. I found a discarded projection TV and took the back off and cut it up to fit from the front bumper to the cross member. I'll get pics of that too.
My tires were worn and I wanted to improve fuel economy by lowering RPM at speed. I took some 17"x 8 Pony wheels from a Mustang, (I forgot to get the back spacing) and used some 2" spacers I had, and mounted 265/70/17 Destination A/T (31.7 x 10.7).
I didn't want to lift the truck if I could avoid it, and I don't mind cutting. On the left side I did have to trim the corner from the grey plastic side board thing, and I used two heavy zip ties and pulled the inner fender back to the body mount. I still have a very slight rub on the bump molded into the rear of the left inner fender by the outside of the tire briefly at near full lock. That's it so far. I might go ahead and crank the bars up 1/5-3/4 inch would bring me level with the rear. It's probably time for an alignment anyway. Also I think if I used a pair of 1.5-1.75 inch spacers on the front, that might alleviate the rubbing altogether. That would actually work well since the rear are tucked into the fender a little more.
After stepping back and looking at my work I was very unhappy with the faded and scratched grey plastic bumper and lower panels, so I sprayed them with Plastidip. It turned out great. I'll rock this for a while until they start looking bad and spray with bed liner instead.
I will take better pics of what I did tomorrow. I also made an air panel in the hopes to reduce drag. I found a discarded projection TV and took the back off and cut it up to fit from the front bumper to the cross member. I'll get pics of that too.
