Reply With QuoteBut don't let a cop see them.
They are illegal AFAIK in all states of Australia unless fitted by the manufacturer eg Porsche 924 Turbo.
Regards Philip A
Master
Hey all,
A friend of mine has just bought the green stage 1, previously known as 'Kermit'. I must admit it was bought for parts as we plan to put the rocky mountain para's, front and rear diffs, bar and winch, and tyres under his isuzu stage 1 wagon.
One thing we have really noticed offroad and in car parks, is that the tyres scrub on the chassis in the front. the two ideas we have had on rectifying this problem is either get another set of 16x8 or 16x9 rims and get centres from the current wheels put into these with the most amount of negative offset possible.
The second idea is wheels spacers like these:
Land Rover
Sooooo, this brings me to the question, has anyone here had any bad experiences with wheel spacers like shearing studs etc.
Swaggie
SubscriberBut don't let a cop see them.
They are illegal AFAIK in all states of Australia unless fitted by the manufacturer eg Porsche 924 Turbo.
Regards Philip A
I had a Ford that kept scrubbing tyres no matter how many wheel alignments it had. On one of the alignments the bloke said he couldn't get the correct - offset because of the rim.
Went back to the rim supplier who said he'd supply spacers but I had to get the longer studs and fit them. I’d replaced the tyres twice by then.
Long story short the RTA said spacers wether welded on to the rim or not were illegal. And they would defect my car if that's what the rim supplier wonted before he'd fix the problem. Don’t know how many rims the bloke had sold but he would have been up for a recall.
If he had accepted my first offer for him to fit longer studs and supply the spacers I would have been none the wiser and would have paid for the third set of tyres.
Interestingly the RTA said only the Porsche was acceptable with spacers as they came with them.
Master
With proper manufactured spacers like that you wont have any issues shearing wheel studs. ( i havent had any personal experience with them, just never heard of anyone having issues).
Unfortuately they are only for offroad use, unless you get them engineered and you car licensed with the mod.
When you say it scrubs on the chassis, do you mean it scrubs with wheel articulation or when you have the steering at full lock?
Steve
Master
Hey guys thanks for the fast replies, we realise the legalities of wheelspacers, but as this is just a play truck which will be driven no less that 10km to tracks, we're not too worried about cops, we are more interested in whether anyone has had spacers break wheel studs on them etc.
Master
They mainly scrub on full lock, but they may a bit when its flexingOriginally Posted by Jim621
Master
why dont you just wind out your steering stops? - simple fix.
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Yes but then you go from the turning circle of an aircraft carrierto the turning circle of a supertanker.
You won't find me on: faceplant; Scipe; Infragam; LumpedIn; ShapCnat or Twitting. I'm just not that interesting.
OldBushie
I recently overheard a member of the general populous ask a representative of a supposed "4wd specialist" and accessories company as to how they fitted oversized tyres to the companies promotional vehicle ( legally registered in NSW). Who can guess what the answer was? I so wished the person who asked the original was an RTA inspector or an engineer.
Swaggie
SubscriberReally the whole thing is a bit of "Nanny State" stuff.
They are allowed in UK AFAIK. Are our authorities more knowledgable?
A 20MM spacer will only load the bearing the same as a 20MM change in offset. I guess the real issue is how well made the spacer is.
We do not seem to have a system in Australia where a product has to be approved before sale like the TUV system.
And the Porsche 924 Turbo spacer for example is nothing special at all, just an alloy spacer on a standard 924/nee VW rear bearing setup.
Regards Philip A
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