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Question about my K5: rear wheels

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Now, I know that the rear axle width is smaller than the front, but it looks like the passenger side wheel is deeper in the wheelwell than the driver side wheel. Noticeably. Anyone else notice that on your K5?



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Park on level ground, use a 4 foot level and a tape measure and see how much the difference is...
 
And the driver side measurement is...?
 
Unless someone else can measure their driver's side to compare, it'll have to wait until I get the door panel back on and turn the vehicle around.. A little cramped for space in this garage :doah:


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DK5 said:
Unless someone else can measure their driver's side to compare, it'll have to wait until I get the door panel back on and turn the vehicle around.. A little cramped for space in this garage :doah:


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:haha::haha::haha:
 
DK5 said:
Unless someone else can measure their driver's side to compare, it'll have to wait until I get the door panel back on and turn the vehicle around.. A little cramped for space in this garage :doah:


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That measurement depends completely on the tire and wheel, backspacing, width, etc.

All of the trucks had the rear axle centered under the frame.

Measuring from the body to anything will undoubtedly lead you to measurements that don't add up, 30+ year old tolerances (even when new were at best +/- 1/4") in addition to years of use/abuse mean that things aren't perfectly straight.

It's part of owning a K-series truck. We get people all the time that complain that lift springs don't lift a truck the same amount side to side because they're measuring from the ground to the body. When they measure from the axle to the frame (the actual suspension lift), it's 99% dead on.

It's very common for the body to be off by a bit, some is probably based on factory tolerances being looser than they are today and some is based on flexy frames/bodies that are 21+ years old.
 
This is true. Especially since I had the body completely redone by autobody students a couple years ago... :doah:

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They did a good job though.



This is just something that I noticed and was bugging me.


38377k5 said:
That measurement depends completely on the tire and wheel, backspacing, width, etc.
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Its the factory 15x7 alloy rims with the 8 holes.

Hopefully I can get the truck turned around today and we will settle this! :haha:

I bought some wheelspacers too from buffblazer, so that might help me a bit... :woot:
 
If it`s not dog tracking I don`t think I would worry about it too much.

Unless it`s way different from one side to the other.
 
I like the idea of the rear axle being narrower, especially in the sand up here. Then the rear wheels arent completely in the same track as the front and have some more surface to grab
 
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