I have put bolt on fender flares on my 1995 dodge ram 1500 and am running lt 235 85 r16 toyo a/t tires on American Racing wheels. While I would like a wider sticking out tire, I purchased the truck last summer and it had nearly brand new tires on it. I was wondering how the spacers would affect the truck. I heard that it puts a little extra strain on the bearings, (the example I heard was it was like holding a 8 ft metal pole out from your body and grabbing it in the middle to be like stock, vs holding it at the end with wheel spacers.) I also heard that many people run them without problems. Particularly tacomas and duallys all have spacers I guess.
My main point is if they wont do much harm and would give that aggressive stance back what inch range and brand would I be looking at?
Thanks for the help guys.

Any pictures of before and afters greatly appreciated.


*** I have seen the posts on the bearings that are affected by the spacers.

My question is that since I don't want to waste the brand new tires, until I use these tires and want to buy bigger ones do you think it would hurt the truck to run a spacer for the life of one set of tires?

Thanks for the help