NorthernWoodsman
Adventurer/tinkerer
Okay, for all of you folks who have experience with this sort of thing please help me out on this one.
I installed one of my ball joint spacers today. yeah, feeling pretty inbred right now too as it took me six hours. Pretty pathetic if I do say so myself. Was my first one ever and with removing the old shock, figuring out how to get the dang ball joint out, all the cutting, cutting again, painting, multiple attempts at installing, removing the steering arm, reattaching the steering arm, then cutting again, painting again, and finally installing I ended up with this dilemma:
- my upper control arm is now 1/16" away from the tire.
I read a lot of stuff on these spacers and I never saw any mentions of needing certain wheels or needing wheel spacers anywhere. Did I miss those items somewhere? Do I need wheels with a certain offset? Do I need wheel spacers?
Oh, details: 1994 Toyota pickup, 4wd, extracab, 15" factory "spare wheels" running 235/75/15 (snow tires for the mountain).
Thank you!
I installed one of my ball joint spacers today. yeah, feeling pretty inbred right now too as it took me six hours. Pretty pathetic if I do say so myself. Was my first one ever and with removing the old shock, figuring out how to get the dang ball joint out, all the cutting, cutting again, painting, multiple attempts at installing, removing the steering arm, reattaching the steering arm, then cutting again, painting again, and finally installing I ended up with this dilemma:
- my upper control arm is now 1/16" away from the tire.
I read a lot of stuff on these spacers and I never saw any mentions of needing certain wheels or needing wheel spacers anywhere. Did I miss those items somewhere? Do I need wheels with a certain offset? Do I need wheel spacers?
Oh, details: 1994 Toyota pickup, 4wd, extracab, 15" factory "spare wheels" running 235/75/15 (snow tires for the mountain).
Thank you!