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Old 11-01-2011, 11:42 PM
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so I finally bought some tires as well as the 2" bilstein leveling shock, the tires I bought are slightly bigger at 285/60/20 which equals to 33.5/11.2/20 which is perfect IMO, not too much bigger and still looks aggressive, since I can barely clear the control arms, I still would like about a 1" spacer, where can I buy them, seems like, they need to be 9/16th thread size ONLY, I will also get (4) since I want it to match all-around, is that what you guys get when getting spacers, it seems like this is what I found, is that what I need? It doesnt seem right since these say adapters but then why does it say 5-5.5, also, I want hub centric so no wobble. TIA

http://www.ebay.com/itm/320778573412...84.m1423.l2649
 
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any help? this is pretty much all I have left
 
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Wheel spacers will accelerate your bearing wear, especially those. That's quite a bit of extra pressure on the bearings.
 
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Well i ordered them already, slightly different ones actually and we will see, i had too to accommodate the tires
 
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can you get some before and after pics? i have been wanting to get some but not sure
 
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Seen too many of them aluminum lugs snap off to even mess with them myself. Have a good buddy who had one fail and lost a wheel (driver-side, front) on his truck while turning on an off-ramp on I75 in Atlanta a few years back. Wrecked his truck.

I know guys run them but not for me thanks, I just do it the right way and get wheels built with the proper offset/backspacing...
 
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just installed them yesterday and it looks AWESOME, gives the truck a complete different look with the stock wheels, i hope to god I dont have issues that HAMMER's talking about but it very well couldnt NOT been installed properly such as this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCrog2riJ9o

or

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVg6uM-Oldg
 
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Pics?
 
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ill get them tomorrow, I just had the truck detailed today
 
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here are my pics:

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