Anyone ever break a wheel spacer/adaptor
02-21-2017, 10:52 PM
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Different situation but it was some aluminum wheel adapter spacers on a 67 vw bug it sheared the bolts right off the spacers we were flat towing it to its new home. I will always be leary of them. I have zero clue of what there quality was or where they came from as the original owner purchased them.
03-03-2017, 05:18 PM
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I beat on my 1.5" spacers on my Jeep Grand Cherokee pretty hard. I wheel with it, slide it around, burnouts, stump jumping, all that. They're solid. I retorque them everytime I have the wheels off.
Where people run into problems is with the shorter spacers the original lugs can be long enough to hit the rim, standing taller than the spacer wheel face. Then the wheel never sits flat and stresses the studs. We had a Dodge 2500 flop a wheel in the parking lot after all the studs broke.
Where people run into problems is with the shorter spacers the original lugs can be long enough to hit the rim, standing taller than the spacer wheel face. Then the wheel never sits flat and stresses the studs. We had a Dodge 2500 flop a wheel in the parking lot after all the studs broke.