wheel spacers - friend or foe?

[KL-CJ7]

I'm thinking of purchasing a set 2" wheel spacers and I wanted to hear your options?

Anyone running them with great succes, or anyone stop using them for some reason?

 

[McCracken]

I run a 1" spacer and had nothing but what I wanted out of them. I torqued them to 110 ft/lbs and called it good. Never looked back and I wheel it pretty hard I think.

 

[Tom@Hilltop_Machine]

I ran them for awhile. No problems with them either. A set of 4 will set you back 200 bucks though.

 

[RRADFORD9ER]

Why do you need a 2" spacer? Are you trying to keep stock wheels? Sometimes its better/just as cost effective to buy a cheap set of steelies.

Just make sure you go with a quality company, don't skimp and get Chinese crap. And if your wheels are hub-centric, make sure the spacers are too! I had some cheap 1.5" wheel spacers that weren't hub-centric and wobbled like HELL...now I've got some hub-centric spacers and its much better.

 

[Lizooki]

Running spacers that have been installed correctly will be no different than running custom back-spaced wheels.

Summit sells the wheels cheaper than most places sell the spacers.


Matt

 

[Green ford]

Just torque them properly and check them after a couple of hundred miles. Thy can cause a little more stress on bearings but if done right work well. As said before make sure if you are running hub centric wheels run hub centric spacers.

 

[J.C.]

Quality spacers, installed and torqued correctly and checked periodically = Friend

Crappy spacers, not torqued, not checked = Foe

Been running quality units on the rear for years with no problems.

 

[Ricky B]

don't run 2pc spacer adapters thou, even when torqued properly with locktight I had one separate on me on the front left side while going down the interstate bout 70 mph with traffic all around me, was an interesting situation


But I have run normal 1.5" spacers on the rear of my tow rig for a while with no probs

 

[1stgenxxx]

lock tite

 

[bigwaylon]

I'm thinking of purchasing a set 2" wheel spacers and I wanted to hear your options?
Anyone running them with great succes, or anyone stop using them for some reason?

I've run mine for a couple years with no issues...

I know at least a dozen people that run spacers they bought from this guy:

http://stores.ebay.com/sscramblin

here's a direct link to some 2" spacers with 5x5.5" spacing (I took a guess you're running the stock CJ bolt pattern):

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/WHEE...62QQcategoryZ42614QQihZ002QQitemZ120293893109

that'll run you just over $150/shipped for four...


side note...some of the brands specifically say not to use loc-tite...as it will cause false readings when you go back to re-torque...

Greg

 

[GubNi]

Just make sure you use a torque wrench when you install them!

 

[Caver Dave]

I ran them for awhile. No problems with them either.

Ditto... I'm running tknopp's old spacers (1.5") at all corners and have had zero issues...