you may wanna look into longer studs... MP has em'
-mike d.
---> Yorktown, Va.
88 Dakota LE: slammed, painted, and PARKED =(
miggitymike@juno.com
http://members.xoom.com/dakotaperf/index.html
On Thu, 03 Feb 2000 23:47:12 -0500 durling@attglobal.net writes:
> I thought I would share this with the list. A long time ago I had a
> line
>
> on a set of R/T wheels for my '96 dak but let them go due to the
> price
> and the fact that the offset doesn't work. We'll to make a long
> story
> short last week when I went to have my tires rotated and balanced I
> was
> talking to the guy at my local tire shop and he offered me a set of
> R/t
> wheels for $500 bucks and would do what he had to do to make them
> work
> or he would take them back.
>
> They have some junk tires on them but you can still get a few
> hundred
> miles out of them so we are experimenting with them on my truck. The
> rear fits fine but to get them to work in the front you have to use
> a
> 1/4" spacer to get them to clear the upper a-arm and the center caps
> that I always felt stick out 5 miles anyway. We tried some ETA lugs
> which go into the lug hole on the wheel to make up for the shortned
> stud
>
> sticking through. The problem is that they don't make them in a wide
> enough seat so the lug itself digs into the rim and keeps loosening
> up.
> What we have found to do is drill out the holes a 1/16" of an inch
> so it
>
> will not weaken the wheel and use some special lugs from enkei that
> are
> open all of the way through and have a piece that looks like an
> extension to a ratchet set that fits on the inside of the lug and
> hooks
> up to your standard 21mm socket. I have to tell you these lugs grab
> more
>
> of the stud than the factory lugs did on the original wheels. I know
> there are some of you who don't agree with the spacers but I must
> say
> from experimenting that this setup is really solid. Hope this is
> useful
> for future considerations. When I get a chance I will take some pics
> for
>
> Jon to update for older pics on the pics page. The only thing I am
> goin
> to have to do is find some good looking fender flares to coverup the
> 1/4" of tire that sticks past the top of the wheel well.
>
> Sorry for such a long post but I thought it might help
>
> Jeff Durling
> '96 RC Sport 5.2
>
> BTW, tires are damn expensive!!! Looks like around $800 bucks for
> Pirelli Scorpion Zeros or Michelin Pilot H/T's mounted and
> balanced.....ouch!!
>
>
>
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