Re: Lowered Dakota and now rubbin tires

From: Josh Battles (josh@omg-stfu.com)
Date: Thu Mar 31 2005 - 16:19:55 EST


Who's springs are you using? Perhaps contacting them to get the correct
springs would be a good place to start. Coils aren't *that* expensive.

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- Josh
Lowered 2000 Dakota CC 3.9L
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<egiblock@runbox.com> wrote in message news:d2hof8$fq3$1@bent.twistedbits.net... > > > I have a 99 dakota sport 4x2 club cab (ext. cab). > > the tires i have are 255/45/18's that do not tuck. > > the problem: i'm chewing the tires up because they are rubbing against the > wheel wells. > > ---------- > > I used a lowering kit (2" c-arms and coil springs) from a dakota sport truck > that was a regular cab truck, had the same tires and rims that i have now (i > bought the tires, rims, and kit from him). > > It's ovbious that the weight difference between the reg cab and club cab is > causing the difference in the front end, and causing the tires to rub.. > > > Any ideas out there to get this thing fixed? > > > > THINGS IM > NOT < GOING TO DO :- Get New Tires and Rims. > > I don't have the money to spend on new rims and tires that will tuck... i need > to fix what i have now. > > I was thinking of putting the factory springs back in, but don't know how much > that will raise the front. > > Is there anything like a block of metal that i can put between the coil spring > and the control arm plate to raise it a bit ?? Any ideas out there ?? > > > thanks for anything you can give me..



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