those of you that have been around for a while (and from gen edge) know i'm pretty anal about my truck. well, it's always bugged me that my front wheels stuck out, a little more than the rear, since the spindle lift. i ordered some Eibach adapters from truckperformance.com sometime back but haven't had the time to install them. they are just over an inch wide and are hub-centric. well yesterday i finally got them on. i ground down the studs to just-below-flush with adapter (leo...lol), torqued them down at 100 ft/lbs, put some threadlock on them, and mounted and torqued the wheels. it looks much better (to me), there's no vibrations or anything while driving. now i can sleep at night. lol.
http://www.svtoreo.com/wider/Wider9.jpg

pics please gary, lets see it!!

make sure you post pics of the wheel bearings you will need soon

:wink:

for the rear?? doubtful....

why would he need wheel bearings?

Sweet, hows the grass look?

LOL, we missed you today

Kids say the darnest thing....

anyway.....





Lets see some pics gary...

didn't know there was a meet...i'd have gone for sure even though i had a pretty bad headache.

anytime you get the center of the wheel away from the center of the hub or bearing it wears the bearing out faster then normal.
back in the day when RWD wheels were cool to put on escorts and such (you have seen these guys, you know the cars with the 100 spoke wire wheels that hang out 10 inches past the wheel well) most of the time only get 20K or so on the bearings.

dont get me wrong i love garys truck, but i personaly would never use ANY wheel spacer.

i dont think he spaced his out very far, i agree technically it will wear the bearings faster, but i think gary will be ok for a while

Well honestly, for guys like me who have 8" wide wheels with almost 6" of backspacing, I don't see the problem. Even with the adapter my wheel still has a positive offset (backspacing of 4.75" if you think of the adapter as part of the wheel.)