wheel spacers

hi all,thinking about fitting some grayston wheel spacers to the jimny but remember from my rallying past that the rac would not let cars fitted with this type of spacer to compete because of safety grounds.have things improved since then or has anyone had an issue with them. cheers

They will potentially cause the wheel bearings to fail quicker.

i now lots that run them with no probs including myself and iv got deep dish GV rims aswell i also trial with them on but if you can afford them try and get the billet ones as they are stronger

Get the billet ones.... I used the hollow Grayson ones and had wheel wobble... They just don't seem stronge enough for any sort of offroading... Just my opinion.

Hi, according to my understanding, wheel spacers they not solve nothing and bring many problems

Including modification of the scrub radius, which is highly dangerous



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Gustavo

spacers widen the track and help offset the higher centre of gravity from a lift kit
the billet ones are better but much more expensive

gus2000 wrote: Hi, according to my understanding, wheel spacers they not solve nothing and bring many problems

Including modification of the scrub radius, which is highly dangerous

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Gustavo

Are you sure this is an issue on vehicles with a live axle like the Jimny? I can't see how spacers can affect this at all.
And agreed with Darth.

I've used the billet spacers and they made a huge improvement to stability after a 2" lift, I would still opt for offset rims first though. The Grayston spacers I wouldn't trust, I know a few people who've had them fail with a wheel falling off as a result.

TomDK wrote: Are you sure this is an issue on vehicles with a live axle like the Jimny? I can't see how spacers can affect this at all.
And agreed with Darth.

Yes Tom.



If you change the Wheel offset, point "A" does not match the center of the tire

Drawing 3d-2 page service manual

Blissett wrote

Get the billet ones.... I used the hollow Grayson ones and had wheel wobble..

so did the wobble disappear when you removed the Graysons and fitted solid billet ones ?

This is an interesting discusion,

how it looks with a 1" spacer - the line of force through the kingpins is now "C"



naturally this would put more stress on the bearings but one would hope the setup had been engineered to be able to cope with such an increase.

as for the line of force not being directly through the tyre centreline, I'm not sure how critical this would be, as my ATs have a pretty flat even profile.

I'm sure the extra stresses could contribute to the death wobble effect, but that also affects peeps without spacers.

I'm just expressing my thoughts and not professing to be an expert

nothing wrong with the grayson type spacers ive always used that type & never had any problems at all i prefer them over solid billet ones any day you got more chance of a solid type spacer coming loose than the grayson ones

each to there own like anything i suppose

gus2000 wrote:

TomDK wrote: Are you sure this is an issue on vehicles with a live axle like the Jimny? I can't see how spacers can affect this at all.
And agreed with Darth.

Yes Tom.

If you change the Wheel offset, point "A" does not match the center of the tire

Drawing 3d-2 page service manual

So tell me how suzuki changed the set up from steel wheels to alloys one of my jims has steels and my other jim has alloys and the alloys sit out ferther more flush with the wheel arch