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Jul 21st, 2025 | | | | Joined: Dec 2013 Posts: 178 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Dec 2013 Posts: 178 | Has anyone found and run 1.5"
or 2.0" wheel spacers on these trucks? I'd like to widen and slightly lower my stance.
Have you ever noticed that anyone driving slower than you is an idiot and anyone driving faster than you is a maniac? - George Carlin
| | | | | Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 1,285 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 1,285 | I ran adapter plates that are 6 bolt to 5 bolt that are about an inch thick and it really changes the suspension as far as road wander goes. Now the plan is 5 bolt front drums to get the suspension the way it was designed. | | | | | Joined: May 2005 Posts: 8,877 . | | . Joined: May 2005 Posts: 8,877 | Wheel spacers are generally not the best idea if there is any other way.
How about wheels with different offset? | | | | | Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 28,674 Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) | | Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 28,674 | Spacers that big should be illegal. They make deadly dangerous changes in the suspension geometry, cause all sorts of unpredictable handling problems in turns, and create unsafe wheel bearing loading that threatens to break axle shafts and cause front wheel bearing failures. They also make the old trucks look butt-ugly with the wheels sticking out of the fender wells!
Other than that, go for it, but please invest in a trailer to haul your truck to and from car shows. That way you won't be a hazard to all of us who have to share the public roads with you!
Jerry
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| | | | | Joined: Dec 2013 Posts: 178 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Dec 2013 Posts: 178 | Thanks everyone for the input.
Have you ever noticed that anyone driving slower than you is an idiot and anyone driving faster than you is a maniac? - George Carlin
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