Little update, ive been dormant for a bit.
Got my 1.5" wheel spacers on. In the process i nearly destroyed my ****** ram lug nuts. Whos idea was it to put some cheap pop can tin "covers" over the actual nuts? Stupid. Half of them i ended up denting the faces by not using a deep socket and some of them the covers feel loose on the nut after you've hit torque spec. Some of them are warped enough that you have to beat the socket on and off. Absolute garbage, turned a 40 minute rotation/spacer install into an embarrassingly long **** show.
Before:
After:
Full lock with the 1.5" spacers on, no suspension work, 120lb front bumper, oem size duratracs with like 20-30 thousand KILOMETERS on them:
Theres no rub sitting perfectly still but if im driving and go full lock i can hear them kissing the plastic some times.
For anyone installing spacers, there were some weird lock washer things on some of the wheel studs seemingly random which ones. I have a feeling the tire shops have lost some or whatever before, even though they were pretty difficult to pry off. Take all those off when you put your spacers on or youre gonna have a bad time.
On to some exciting news! Nick at gotexhaust is amazingly quick and honest with customer service but the shipping costs to canada just kill the deals for me. That being said, with all the 6112s popping back in stock places, i gave 4 wheel parts a call to check if they had got them and nobody called me back or what was going on. Not sure if buddy was covering his ass and theyve been sitting there for weeks, but he told me they just came on the truck THIS morning.
So i am at work, then making a cross canada road trip with a buddy as a favor, as hes moving. Itll be a while yet before i get everything installed but i should have all my parts stockpiled in about a week!
P.s. still dont have my light bars installed, ive been lazy lol. The hardware for the mounts on the westin bumper are those smooth top bolts that have a square bit to fit into a square hole in the bumper, linex ****** up all those clearances so i have to thread the bolts into the linex and screw those bolts in with a set of channel locks on the smooth head haha. Its a headache but i dont want to grind the linex out. Ive got one side's mount installed so far.