33s Rubbing

Thing with fitting spacers is when locking the steering over the tyre is further out so pushes even more into the door section

Smoggy wrote: Gazwell who sold me the 33s offered me the 1.5'' extended radius arms he has to help with the problem but I fear this may cause more problems by upsetting the castor angle by rotating the setup backwards?

I suspect he also moved the mounting points to compensate for this when he fitted the axles ( were they yota?)

reaper wrote: Thing with fitting spacers is when locking the steering over the tyre is further out so pushes even more into the door section

Mmm yeah I see what you mean but it would only be at the outer edge of the door pillar then, which I might be able to overcome. The inner arch would be then less likely to catch with the spacers on?

With wider wheel or with more offset, the tires will rub even more, that's for sure. You just need to cut, weld and hammer it to make room! My tires don't rub any, and I cut just a little bit off of that flat edge and then hammered the corner in when those spotwelds(in that edge) were cut off, and then welded it back together. And the final touch was to hammer the rest of that that flat edge level with the inner arch all the way up.

But you have more aggressive tires than me, so you'll have more problems. I'm interested to see what's under that corner if you cut it open, because that's what I need to do too when I get some real offroad tires for my Jim.

Well Paul it looks like were both gonna find out whats behind it soon as im gonna carefully take a grinder to it in the next week or so

slightly crappy photo but