just put these on havent seen any one with them yet MSR 048 super finish 18" 40 x 235 tires there pushing the limit also have 1 1/4" adapters.
The whole truck is freakin sick!! Wheels to paint. Is your truck wrapped? Its like you dipped your whole truck. I dipped my valve cover on my Cummins that same skull pattern nice choice.
I have some msr wheels too and Im guessing your using the wheel spacer to clear the center hub?? Was the 1 and 1/4 inch spacer more than enough to clear?? Do you think i can get away with 3/4" or 1" spacers??
I wouldnt hold your breath too long for an answer Bagged_Soon is offline Last Activity: 09-17-2013 11:18 PM
You know its funny but all the good stuff on this website and still I haven't found any definitive info about hub bore and clearance issues and resolutions. I know its a common issue because our trucks are old and everything now is lug centric. I'm kind of a lazy person and I don't want to pull wheels to measure lug studs and hubs when I know somebody already knows the answer. Spacers/ adapters need to be a specific thickness to clear the lug studs and then the bore needs to be wide enough to clear the dust cap etc. So far Ive read that bores are measuring anywhere from 60.1mm-72.6mm and then some are saying you need 1.5" spacing minimum to clear the studs but then I see others using as low as 1" spacers. The real strange thing is my stock steelie's will fit perfect and interchange front to back. But my msr065's will only fit on the rear. I almost pressured the fronts on by torquing them down but they weren't centering too well and there wasn't much thread to work with once I really started to get it going. Then I had to beat the back of the tire with a rubber mallet for like an hour to get it off. I know I need spacers but I don't want to order the wrong ishh
Possible to take a file to the center bore of your wheels? I did it with a set of 18" ADR's when I first got my truck....2+ years, no issues/wobbles/worries. Just needed 1-2mm to clear.
Yeah I know what you mean because I'm sure its just 1-2mm of wheel that's driving me crazy. I also thought about using a small dremel or grinder and just go to town on them. But I started thinking, even though they are nice wheels I might want or need to re-sell them. Plus whatever comes in the future might as well need more hub bore. Idk I've been leaning more towards the spacer route.
I plan on using one of these if I need to make the center hole bigger on my wheels: 4" Engine Cylinder Hone I got one and used it succesfully to make the holes in the drink holder on the dash bigger so they would fit regular 20oz soda bottles by taping the tops of the grinding pads to the arms so they wouldn't flop around. I figure with some oil or cutting fluid it could take a couple mm's off an aluminum wheel pretty easily.
During college, I worked at Epsilon and when we received a "defective" batch of centers with too-small bore centers, we would just use a drill motor with a coarse emery cloth flap wheel. Don't try to "go around" the bore; get a flap wheel that is large and fits snugly in the bore and let it center itself at high rpms in the bore and it comes out centered. Same idea as the cylinder hone but I think easier to use.
