Someone had a bad day...

The last picture of your Jeep looks like you have no jack stands under your rig. You must really trust the 50 cent seals in your floor jacks. Even if that pair of jacks has never leaked down I'd throw a pair under the axle just in case.


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Elliott said:
I know these pics suck but the lower portion of the studs on the wheel spacer are completley threadless. Apparently the noise from the locker was from the rear tire angling in and out because these spacers were not really bolted to ANYTHING. Never buy wheel spacers!
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so tell me how this failure was a result of running the spacer? looks like it was improperly torqued to me, not a faulty spacer
 
Loose lugs would allow for the wheel to wobble around and strip the threads right off the stud, spacers or not.

Perhaps you weren't using the proper lug nuts for the wheel? (I'm gonna venture a guess since I'd bet your rig came with aluminum wheels, and you're now running steels)
 
Don't run spacers if you don't have to, but...

When I did the rear d60, I still had the d30 front. I made up some 2" spacers for the front that bolted onto the 5x4.5 axle/spindle, and had an 8x6.5" stud pattern for the wheel to mount to. I kept an eye on the lugnuts, on both, and never had a problem in 2 1/2yrs and 40k miles. And by made up, I mean made on a mill and lathe, designed myself, and everything. It was my first time using such tools and there was no engineering calculation involved. Maybe lucky guessing is better, but I would venture that good engineering and machining would lead to even better success, not worse.
 
Rich said:
231 - not sure why that would have happened, but I would guess that you were running std. backspaced wheels with large offroad tires.. which means effectively, you had less than 1" of backspacing (normal Toy wheel is 3.75" BS), putting nearly all the vehicle's weight on the studs in a way they didn't like.

Yes you are right on that. Im sure running 38.5 Boggers didnt help and the backspacing wasnt right but i personally will never run spacers again just because of the trouble i have ran into. Not only the fact of running down the interstate and having a tire come off but the hassle of spendint $200 to $300 dollars everytime it happened. Thats why i just wnet with full width axles and said to hell with the small axles.
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