Tire rubbing - Why?
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RE: Tire rubbing - Why?
ORIGINAL: dillonjm
No matter what you do you're going to decrease your turning radius to stop it from rubbing. So either turn a little less tight or remove that stop and put a few washers on it, basically adjusting it to decrease your turn radius to the point where at full lock your tire doesn't rub.
The steering stop adjustment is a common thing for guys who put bigger wider tires on their vehicles.
This is a site for Jeeps but the directions should help you, I assume it should work on the 44 front end in our half tons:
http://www.stu-offroad.com/steering/...teerstop-1.htm
No matter what you do you're going to decrease your turning radius to stop it from rubbing. So either turn a little less tight or remove that stop and put a few washers on it, basically adjusting it to decrease your turn radius to the point where at full lock your tire doesn't rub.
The steering stop adjustment is a common thing for guys who put bigger wider tires on their vehicles.
This is a site for Jeeps but the directions should help you, I assume it should work on the 44 front end in our half tons:
http://www.stu-offroad.com/steering/...teerstop-1.htm
I don't mind giving up that last little bit of turn angle. Fact is, I think it will increase my practical turning angle. Trying to avoid tire rub I dont' turn as sharp as I could if the truck took care of that for me.
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RE: Tire rubbing - Why?
i just discovered that my trucks doing something like this. the driver side front tire rubs on the lower control arm, right where the shocks lower mount is, you can see where it is rubbing on the lower shock mount bolt, and on the edge of the lower control arm.tires are 245/75/16s and the truck is two wheel drive. it does not do it on the passenger side at all, there is over a quarter inch of gap.the adjustmentbolt: i can'tfind it on my ram, is that only on 4x4s, or am i just not seeing it? any help would be greatly appreciated, as im about to weld a chunk of steel in the wayso i cant turn the tires thatfar...[sm=headbang.gif]
RE: Tire rubbing - Why?
Based on your first post, I'd suspect your stops were not adjusted properly. You should have them, if there's nothing there, they may have rusted off or gotten broke.
