Installed my new wheels. 24"
07-18-2010, 11:16 PM
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Hahaha,, nah I thought he was going to tell me to straighten it out but he just pulled up turned around and chilled for a minute. No one was in the parking lot anyway. I live in somerset county.
Cop in the second picture hassle you at all? 
07-18-2010, 11:18 PM
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well i only have a 2/4 drop so that benifitted me some, but yeah i had to do some work to get them to stop rubbing, now matter what i did i couldnt get it from rubbing at a full turn.
07-18-2010, 11:26 PM
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HAHAHA, yea, can you say SUPERCHARGER?!
The problem is though your not sitting at factory hight so I would think, zeroing it out would be in order so your not wearing out the inside shoulder of the tires but as long as your happy with it and you rotate often, it shouldnt be much ofa issue.
07-18-2010, 11:49 PM
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Looks real good
Good thing you went with the 295s, I did my 4/7 drop and put on my 24s with 305s and they rub like crazy.
What exactly did you do to minimize the rubbing up front?
Good thing you went with the 295s, I did my 4/7 drop and put on my 24s with 305s and they rub like crazy.
What exactly did you do to minimize the rubbing up front?
07-19-2010, 09:56 AM
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I removed the plastic wheel liners, mounted the new wheel and marked off where I needed to make room with a sharpie marker. I had to grind away some metal from a spot welded seam. Hammer back some of the sheet metal liner. Refold the lowest part of the wheel well back and upward about 2 inches. I scooted the washer fluid container forward about a 1/4 inch. Then I resharped the plastic liner a little bit with a heat gun.
With the liners back on it looks completly factory.
These wheels have a +13 offset so they stick out little over a 1/2" more then most wheels for our trucks. (Normal offset would be +30). This made the clearance terrible. I couldn't even turn the wheel before I modified the wheel wells. I knew this was going to happen so I planned for it. I just really liked these wheels and I was willing to do the extra work.
I was going to go an easier route and get 295/30R24, this would have made the clearance issues a lot less but the ride quality may have suffered and the overall diameter would have been less then stock. IMO this would have made the wheels look a bit short. Also Toyo, the only company i found that made this size, has a national backorder on them and I wanted them installed this past weekend.
07-19-2010, 11:00 AM
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