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F1504x4
10-14-2008, 01:43 PM
I heard about these and saw an install in a magazine i get called off road adventures. I thought they seemed like a good idea and they are relatively cheap. Plus i may be able to get away with getting them for christmas because they widen the stance and reduce risk of rollover :gigem:

anyway, have you guys had any experiance with them and are they helpful or not really?
Doug Krebs
10-14-2008, 01:44 PM
mother of god
JB
10-14-2008, 02:00 PM
no
jerryg79
10-14-2008, 02:03 PM
ask coop! worst. idea. ever.
FJAggie07
10-14-2008, 02:11 PM
mother of god

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2419/1849109365_569a41f236.jpg?v=0
Fredo
10-14-2008, 02:12 PM
You Boys Like MEX-I-CO?!?!
85cj7
10-14-2008, 02:13 PM
i think as long as you re-torque them often (like once a week) your chances are probably pretty low, but those things have the weirdest way of working there way lose.
just look for yourself, , , http://tamor.org/forums/showthread.php?t=8688&page=6
jerryg79
10-14-2008, 02:19 PM
You Boys Like MEX-I-CO?!?!

Farva, only you can make a brown man blush.
F1504x4
10-14-2008, 02:19 PM
ew thats what i was afraid of
uglyota
10-14-2008, 02:23 PM
search and draw your own conclusions. Several of us have been using them for a while without a problem
F1504x4
10-14-2008, 02:25 PM
ive been looking everywhere and have heard both sides..some say they're amazing and all, and others say they fall off too easy..just trying to get more opinions..Im just wonderin if the ones falling off havent been locktighted and torqued right...
FJAggie07
10-14-2008, 02:25 PM
ew thats what i was afraid of

A thread of Super Trooper Quotes? :confused2:confused2

Do I look like a cat to you boy? Am I jumpin' around all nimbly bimbly from tree to tree? Am I drinking milk from a saucer? DO YOU SEE ME EATING MICE?
Sharpe
10-14-2008, 02:29 PM
Dont use them. Coop had a wheel fall off his jeep and hit a house while we were in Clayton, Oklahoma a couple years ago due to the lugnuts getting loose on one of his spacers.
jerryg79
10-14-2008, 02:31 PM
yeah and if you're wheel falls off and you fail to pick it up, they may pull you over for littering and....littering and...littering and

But seriously on a Daily driver, no bueno. Scott's fell off too on the patrol didnt they?
uglyota
10-14-2008, 02:34 PM
Not sure I'd say they're amazing when they work right. They space your wheels out and change lug pattern or provide clearance where you need it, but that's what they're supposed to do :)
Don't get them to widen stance or even to match wms on swapped axles. If you want a wider stance get smaller BS rims, and if you want more stability on sidehills get bigger rims (ie 16, 20, I don't know what you're running)

edit: chickenf*cker!
85cj7
10-14-2008, 04:38 PM
you did see this right?
http://www.tamor.org/forums/showthread.php?t=7682&highlight=wheel+spacers
Shaggy
10-14-2008, 05:02 PM
I got some made for the bronco. Am running them on the front only because the backspacing on my rims put the tires in the leaf-springs. had them on the rear but took them off. use lock-tight and check them every so on if you need them... I wouldn't get them unless you are doing a bolt pattern conversion or have to space it out like mine.
DRAGOONRANCH
10-14-2008, 10:50 PM
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f192/DRAGOONRANCH/Trips/Clayton%20Christmas%20Carnage%2006/wheelwhoopsccc06.jpg

locktite and torqe'n them mean nothing... :D
F1504x4
10-14-2008, 10:53 PM
O jeebus :eek:
J Cooper
10-14-2008, 11:04 PM
it only happened a couple times...

and yes i would take them off, locktite them and torque them before every trip and some how they would still come off at the worst moment


****and that new thing where you can not post the same picture twice is super gay
DRAGOONRANCH
10-14-2008, 11:05 PM
quit being a cheap ass and get a photobucket account so you can just linkem ya joo. :D
DRAGOONRANCH
10-14-2008, 11:06 PM
Wheel Spacers:The best way to clear a house full of methheads!!!
J Cooper
10-14-2008, 11:13 PM
quit being a cheap ass and get a photobucket account so you can just linkem ya joo. :D


i have a picasa account... i just dont keep all my pictures on there.

























... *****
J Cooper
10-14-2008, 11:14 PM
Wheel Spacers:The best way to clear a house full of methheads!!!

there were people in the house but they didnt come out for about 10 minutes... and when they did they just got in their car and drove away.



... i guess they were "using" the toilet