Wheel Spacers?

[Thale51]

So yesterday I had the 4" SST ReadyLift kit installed on the truck with Bilsteins at all four corners. I love the way the lift looks on the truck! But, now I'm thinking about possibly adding some wheel spacers since after lifting, it looks like the wheels and tires are tucked up under the wheel well. I have the factory fender flares on the truck also. With the 2 inch level I had before the lift, the tires came out about even with the flares, maybe poking out just a hair. That's about the same look that I'd like to have with this 4" lift. I'm running 275/65/20 Cooper Discoverer STT Pros on the stock Laramie 20x9 wheels. I still have a lot of life left in these tires, but once it's time for new tires, I'd like to run 295/65/20s in the same tire. What size/brand wheel spacer do you all recommend?

Thanks!

 

[JohnnyMac]

Probably the easiest way to figure it out would be to simply measure exactly how much farther you want your tire to stick out and find that sized spacer. My only recommendation would be to get hubcentric spacers. How about some pictures of the lift?

 

[Thale51]

I've seen hubcentric and bora spacers, and from what I've read they seem to be the best.

 

[JohnnyMac]

Looks great! I see what you mean about being a little tucked. It doesn't look bad at all, but if it were me, I think I'd just put a ruler on the tire and look down from over the fender flare and see what I need. Bora's are good spacers. Check with @Nick@GotExhaust on the forum and if he carries them, he'll hook you up.

 

[rwhjr]

My opinion = get some BORA 1.5” spacers and with the oem flares it’ll be a perfect fit for the truck!

 

[Thale51]

Looks great! I see what you mean about being a little tucked. It doesn't look bad at all, but if it were me, I think I'd just put a ruler on the tire and look down from over the fender flare and see what I need. Bora's are good spacers. Check with @Nick@GotExhaust on the forum and if he carries them, he'll hook you up.

Thanks! After measuring it, I'm thinking a 1-1.5 inch spacer should look pretty good!

 

[Thale51]

My opinion = get some BORA 1.5” spacers and with the oem flares it’ll be a perfect fit for the truck!

That's about what I'm thinking as well! The shop that installed the lift said 2" spacers would look good, but I think that may put them out a little too far. I'm not a fan of the tires sticking way out from the wheel well, but I think having them even with the flares or poking out just a hair from them would look great.

 

[Quick_Shifter]

Bora 1 3/4” and you won’t have to cut your studs down. And an extra 1/4” is nothing.
Only Bora I would not use any other brand. Spend the money and do it right the 1st time. If you have to do it twice it usually costs a lot more

 

[Shawn226]

So yesterday I had the 4" SST ReadyLift kit installed on the truck with Bilsteins at all four corners. I love the way the lift looks on the truck! But, now I'm thinking about possibly adding some wheel spacers since after lifting, it looks like the wheels and tires are tucked up under the wheel well. I have the factory fender flares on the truck also. With the 2 inch level I had before the lift, the tires came out about even with the flares, maybe poking out just a hair. That's about the same look that I'd like to have with this 4" lift. I'm running 275/65/20 Cooper Discoverer STT Pros on the stock Laramie 20x9 wheels. I still have a lot of life left in these tires, but once it's time for new tires, I'd like to run 295/65/20s in the same tire. What size/brand wheel spacer do you all recommend?

Thanks!

Did you get it aligned after the lift?

 

[Thale51]

Did you get it aligned after the lift?

I did.


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[rwhjr]

Bora 1 3/4” and you won’t have to cut your studs down. And an extra 1/4” is nothing.
Only Bora I would not use any other brand. Spend the money and do it right the 1st time. If you have to do it twice it usually costs a lot more

Most of our factory wheels have recessed areas where the studs end up being with spacers. I had 1.25” spacers and never had to cut a single stud. So he doesn’t need 1.75”

 

[Shawn226]

I did.


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That’s interesting the wheels are still tucked up inside the fender then. Spacers will definitely make it look nice then

 

[Thale51]

Just when I thought I was done spending money on the truck for awhile lol. Once funds allow I'll order some wheel spacers then and throw those on. Anyone have any pics of trucks with oem flares and a 4" lift on stock 20s with stock tire size? Just trying to visualize how it would look. I've looked on custom offsets and couldn't really tell much from the few pictures I found.

 

[ilovemyramlaremie]

I hated the way my front end felt with wheel spacers. After a week I heard a strange noise a full wheel lock, I removed the spaces, and sold them. I got 20x 10 where’s, never heard a noise again.

 

[MaxSteel2013]

I hated the way my front end felt with wheel spacers. After a week I heard a strange noise a full wheel lock, I removed the spaces, and sold them. I got 20x 10 where’s, never heard a noise again.

This is interesting. What was the feeling like?

I'll be stuck in a similar situation soon with extended axles on the front and needing to kick the rear out 2" or so to match.

 

[ilovemyramlaremie]

This is interesting. What was the feeling like?

I'll be stuck in a similar situation soon with extended axles on the front and needing to kick the rear out 2" or so to match.

Felt normal going down the road, I didn’t like some noise I was hearing when the steering wheel was turned, backing up, or going forward. I thought for sure my wheel baring was going bad. Once I removed those spacers whatever noise I was hearing, was gone !
I’ve heard lots people never had any issues, I didn’t like them at all

 

[corneileous]

Just when I thought I was done spending money on the truck for awhile lol. Once funds allow I'll order some wheel spacers then and throw those on. Anyone have any pics of trucks with oem flares and a 4" lift on stock 20s with stock tire size? Just trying to visualize how it would look. I've looked on custom offsets and couldn't really tell much from the few pictures I found.

Hey, I’ve got some inch and a half Bora spacers that I had on my truck for a short while that’ll probably work on your truck if you want them. I’ll just have to figure out how much they weigh, to figure out about how much it would cost to ship them to you but if you’re interested, we could definitely look into it. I don’t have a lift on my truck, and I’m still using the factory OEM tire size but, I did like the look back when I still had my BF goodrich all terrain’s on. I don’t have those tires anymore, and I’ve recently put on the set of Michelin Defenders; virtually street tires and, having the wheels poked out like that all the sudden just didn’t look right all the sudden on my truck so I pulled them off. But at least the 1.5 inch wheel spacers with the factory fender flares sure did make it fillout nice.

I did however have just a little bit of front tire rub, but that was only at full-turn lock in either direction, and if at the same time I was on any kind of uneven surface but, in my opinion, that was primarily due to the front tires rubbing on my aftermarket molded mud flaps. In other words, If I didn’t have my mud guards on there, it would be close, but the outside shoulders of my front tires wouldn’t touch the inner fender wells. Here’s some before and after pics. PM me if you’re interested. I only used them for no more than 3 or 4 months. No off-road or even towed anything while I was using them.











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[Thale51]

Thanks brother! PM sent!