Wheel Spacers.....

[Derekjs]

Can some of you post pics of your ride with wheel spacers??? Also, what thickness are they ? I have tourque rims with 265/75/16 tires. I am looking at 1 inch spacers in the front and 11/2 iinch for the rear. Any and all comments are welcome. Thanks

 

[Derekjs]

No one got spacers?????

 

[CityBoyAtl]

i have spacers, just no pics of it with spacers on yet..
got 1.5" spacers and had to do lots of trimming even with a 4" lift

 

[specialized7]

iv had 1.5" spacers on both explorers, with the lift and without.
had to trim the front bumper abit.
They do stick out more, looks more agressive to.

 

[ncranchero]

Just FYI. Spacers or high offset wheels on the front will also cause additional stress on the wheel bearings so look to replace them sooner than without spacers. Just saying.

 

[Derekjs]

Thanks, I May go with just 1 1/2" on the rear. With the wheels I have on now, the front sticks out ever so slightly, while the rear looks painfull, especially while approaching the truck from the rear.
Thanks again.

 

[ncranchero]

That's the way I'm going, have the spacers just haven't put them on yet.

 

[BobWiersema]

Here is some useful wheel spacer info. Just in case you didn't know all this already.

 

[ncranchero]

Now you've done it! You've opened up the hub centric/lug centric can of worms............ & the steel vs. aluminum can of worms........

Of course he spoke of torquing the spacer nuts/wheel lugs and then installed them with an impact, no-no!

 

[CityBoyAtl]

 

[BobWiersema]

Now you've done it! You've opened up the hub centric/lug centric can of worms............ & the steel vs. aluminum can of worms........

Of course he spoke of torquing the spacer nuts/wheel lugs and then installed them with an impact, no-no!

Now that I think of it, why would he preach about doing this correctly for safety reasons and then take a standard blue-torque impact to the lug-nuts? I can only assume that the air tool was set to 10lbs and they went back and re-torqued them correctly. Since I do have an account with the web site listed in the video, (I needed help with our Ford 6.4 PowerStroke), I could send him a e-mail but I'm sure I know what the answer would be, "come on dumb ass, you don't know how to torque a lug nut, bla-bla-bla". All the info. that they sell assumes that you know what you are doing and are just need help with the Ford PowerStroke Engine. Its a great web site and the advice he gives out for free is fantastic. Check it out.

Bob

Now that I think of it, all the Explorers are Hub Centric, I think.

 

[Derekjs]

Thanks for the pic. Can you tell me what spacers you have on, or is it just the rim offset.
Thanks.

 

[CityBoyAtl]

1.5" spacers

 

[Derekjs]

That's the way I'm going, have the spacers just haven't put them on yet.

I just ordered 1.5" for the rear and 1" for the front. I think that will look good and get rid of the rub in the front. I'll post a pic when installed.

 

[Derekjs]

Got the spacers and fitted them this evening. They really changed the appearance a lot.
The wider stance makes her look much more aggresive, without being toooooo much.
Pics tomorrow.

 

[fedyfedz]

@Derekjs got any pics of it after? And what spacers did you go with?

 

[bdmaash]

1.5" wheel spacers on rear

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/fbx/?set=a.10150253917172209.357379.571802208&l=e84953d7d9

non hubcentric, probably should be hubcentric though

 

[CityBoyAtl]

I forgot to mention that my wheels and tires contribute to the width. 33x12.5 MT on 17x8