Stone56 said:
What are best aluminium or steel wheel spacers any experience appreciated
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Neither leave it standard! But that is my preference.
Why are you looking to fit spacers? If you just wish to move out your wheels, I would change the rims for ones with a greater offset rather than fitting the spacers. The reason for this is to make future maintenance easier. You only have to remove one set of wheel nuts to work on the hub etc, and you don't have to regularly remove the wheels to re-torque the spacers, you only have to check and re-torque one set of nuts.
 
Hubcentric ones only, if you get the right ones they are pretty cit and forget, ive not had to remove mine for any reason yet and ive changed 2 diffs, 3 drive flanges and 3 half shafts.
 
Stone56 said:
What are best aluminium or steel wheel spacers any experience appreciated
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None of them. They will shorten the life of your wheel bearings. I would leave standard or go for greater offset wheel. There is a thread on here somewhere which explains the reasoning in a far more technical way.
 
bankz5152 said:
Hubcentric ones only, if you get the right ones they are pretty cit and forget, ive not had to remove mine for any reason yet and ive changed 2 diffs, 3 drive flanges and 3 half shafts.
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Replacing that lot seems to be a reason not to fit them then....lol
 
They arnt related. I was saying having them fitted hasnt made doing any jobs any more difficult.

Some wheels dont come in multiple offsets such as Bowlers and Boosts so spacers are often needed.
 
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bankz5152 said:
They arnt related. I was saying having them fitted hasnt made doing any jobs any more difficult.

Some wheels dont come in multiple offsets such as Bowlers and Boosts so spacers are often needed.
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I know I read your build thread was just having a laugh...
 
True to a point! My 285/75 tyres on Bowlers did fit without spacers but they did rub! Didnt want other alloys as the Bowlers are very pretty! Haha

My old 90 ran hubcentric spacers for the 5 years I had it and who knows how long before that. Never had a problem caused by the spacers.
 
Thanks to you all for your input just thought it would give me marginally better cornering and take that skinny look away would keep the original tyres due to fitting snow chains on all wheels occasionally the spacers would help as I have in the past had problems with rubbing and catches if the chain's move off centre
 
I used alloy hub centric spacers from raptor (i think they are tyrex), as I have alloys. I thoroughly cleaned mating faces, decreased studs and loctited nuts. All good
 
Would you apply copper slip on the mating surfaces to prevent seizure
K14 said:
I used alloy hub centric spacers from raptor (i think they are tyrex), as I have alloys. I thoroughly cleaned mating faces, decreased studs and loctited nuts. All good
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I would but I seem recall something about an issue one of the works rally teams had with this and they stopped doing so.
If you take them off regular then you don't need to really.
 
Stone56 said:
Would you apply copper slip on the mating surfaces to prevent seizure
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can't remember, I think I put a smear of grease. Just make sure you de grease hub studs and nut threads, then loctite nuts when fitting the spacers. I also put a light smear of grease on the cone of the nuts so they don't bind up when tightening.
 
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