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Tire selection question
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http://www.mcgard.com/deutschland/en...flachsitz.html
those, I believe, are what he is talking about!
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those, I believe, are what he is talking about!
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Oh, ok. Those are for hubcentric wheels, not lugcentric. Which is ACTUALLY what my wheel is supposed to be. However, nobody makes a hubcentric wheel for my truck, except in stock form, which wouldn't allow me to run larger tires because of the 5 3/4 backspacing.
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Hubcentric is when the wheel is designed to be centered on the hub and not the lug. My stock rims have slotted lug holes so the rim can be slight rotated back and forth before tightening the lugs. The lug nuts are shanked. However, the bore in the wheel fits snuggly on the hub and this is what centers the wheel. It has been determined that you get a better center from this setup and all new vehicles are designed this way.
The old days everything was lugcentric, whereas one would use conical shaped lugs to center the rim lug holes onto the vehicle. Although this works ok, in many cases the lug nuts dont center the rim "exactly" onto the lug. Furthermore, if the lug gets bent, even slightly, in any direction, this will throw off the center bore of the rim. That's why they went to hubcentric wheel setups. It's much more accurate and can allow for the lugs to be inadvertently bent "accidentally" without affecting the centering of the wheel.
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The old days everything was lugcentric, whereas one would use conical shaped lugs to center the rim lug holes onto the vehicle. Although this works ok, in many cases the lug nuts dont center the rim "exactly" onto the lug. Furthermore, if the lug gets bent, even slightly, in any direction, this will throw off the center bore of the rim. That's why they went to hubcentric wheel setups. It's much more accurate and can allow for the lugs to be inadvertently bent "accidentally" without affecting the centering of the wheel.
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I haven't picked it up yet. Probably at lunch time I will. I've got my fingers crossed. I'm sure it WILL make a difference. May not fix it all together but I'm sure that the Mickeys are more precisionally machined than the stamped and welded rock crawlers. I'll let you guys know in a few hours. The anticipation is tearing me up !!!!
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OK EVERYONE.
THAT WAS THE PROBLEM....THE ROCK CRAWLER RIMS.
I JUST PICKED UP MY TRUCK WITH THE NEW MICKEY THOMPSON WHEELS AND TOOK IT UP TO 75MPH AND SMOOTH AS GLASS (WELL, AS SMOOTH AS A SWAMPER CAN GET)...
VERY HAPPY. AND THE RIMS LOOK GREAT.
TOM
THAT WAS THE PROBLEM....THE ROCK CRAWLER RIMS.
I JUST PICKED UP MY TRUCK WITH THE NEW MICKEY THOMPSON WHEELS AND TOOK IT UP TO 75MPH AND SMOOTH AS GLASS (WELL, AS SMOOTH AS A SWAMPER CAN GET)...
VERY HAPPY. AND THE RIMS LOOK GREAT.
TOM
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Don't get the crawlers if you plan on highway driving in speeds excess of 60 mph......but, who knows, maybe I just got a bad set. But, I can see when I take them off and put them on that the lug holes are cheaply drilled, not completely round and generally look low quality. But, then again, they're only 60 bucks. Get what you pay for I guess. I don't know anything about the American Racing rims.
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