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Using more then 1 spacer

You need to find a better machinist then. Hate to sound so blunt but part of their job is custom ****. they need to grow up.
 
no, your right, they should be able to do these things no problem. I get the " We cant do it because of liability and the abuse it will take...they were made to specific specs and shouldn't be altered for strength blah blah blah.*
 
RIPPEDK5 said:
no, your right, they should be able to do these things no problem. I get the " We cant do it because of liability and the abuse it will take...they were made to specific specs and shouldn't be altered for strength blah blah blah.*
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Well if the stud holes are countersunk far enough for a screw in stud then you could do it yourself like I described.
 
I could just have to find a press or a bridgeport of some sort to use
 
Idk how much i trust harbor freight tooling, with something like that, but its worth looking at
 
So the problem is that you want to run car wheels on a truck and they have the wrong backspacing, the wrong mounting surface and the wrong lug holes?

So why did you go to 9/16 studs anyway? 10 bolt axle shafts are easy to come by. Why not go back to stock ones with use wheel studs that fit your spacers? If your axle is really "custom" why isn't it wider?
 
So question here, why not just run a newer 10 bolt they are wider.

Or did I miss something
 
the newer axle used with out breaks and with 80k miles is $1500+ new parts that it would need...they are not cheap (and my newer axle had drum brakes, not the disk brakes, so it was more expensive for some reason)

while my whole 10 bolt swap cost me $700 (spacers, new brakes, brake lines, axle fluids, seals, u-bolts, spring perches, u- bolt plate and cost of axle)

wider it may be, but at the time, i didnt have $2k to drop on the truck like that, since i was already paying for a move to Texas
 
RIPPEDK5 said:
the newer axle used with out breaks and with 80k miles is $1500+ new parts that it would need...they are not cheap (and my newer axle had drum brakes, not the disk brakes, so it was more expensive for some reason)

while my whole 10 bolt swap cost me $700 (spacers, new brakes, brake lines, axle fluids, seals, u-bolts, spring perches, u- bolt plate and cost of axle)

wider it may be, but at the time, i didnt have $2k to drop on the truck like that, since i was already paying for a move to Texas
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Damn dude that sucks, round here I can pick up a late model 10 bolt with pretty much my choice of ratios for about 300 bucks 200 if I look hard.
 
Stomis said:
You need to find a better machinist then. Hate to sound so blunt but part of their job is custom ****. they need to grow up.
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No we don't need to grow up, people need to quit trying to hack projects together. We turn away jobs every week from car guys because we don't want the liability, not because we couldn't do what they were asking but because there's too much risk involved when a guy off the street comes in and wants a part machined that could potentially fail if used/installed incorrectly.
Why risk it for a stupid couple hundred dollar job?

I had a guy come in the other day and got all pissed because we couldn't drop what we were doing and machine a little part for his POS Honda. He was trying to put different CV shafts in it and wanted us to drill the correct bolt pattern into the flanges right there on the spot, and of course his next question was how much.... then yep, you guessed it... wanted to haggle on the price.

I felt like telling him, "See that bucket we're line boring back there? It's about a $10k job, you want us to pull that guy off of that so we can drill out your CV's for $80?"
 
NOBODY wants liability for wheel spacers, everything has more leverage on it and you're doubling the fasteners involved.

3" per side on 10 bolt wheel bearings seems like a recipe for failure to me, we don't sell wheel spacers but I can definitely appreciate not wanting to be any part of installing 3" wheel spacers on a 10 bolt.

Lots of leverage on so/so wheel bearings, plus double the amount of fasteners to come loose with more leverage on them.
 
Why not just sell those car wheels and tires, pick up some wheels that fit a truck and use the leftover cash to finish the project?
 
I can understand the liability, thats why people want so much for them.

There is alot of leverage on everything, but im not using them on the front. The main reason for needing the spacer is to set them back out at the fender line where they should be, and since the axle was so narrow the tires wouldnt clear the leaf springs.. Right now I have 1-1.5" clearance from the leaf springs (only because of the spacers.. I could do a 2.5" spacer rather then a 3" and be still be happy.

but to me it still looks goofy

ever get done doing something like a swap and right at the end you pupt the tires on an something doesnt fit? :doah: Thats when you hang your head and ask, "Why me?":haha:
 
I have put them on craiglist before.. with no people interests.. I wanted a 17" rim

I perferred having the 14bolt in the back when i had to emergency swap an axle into to drive it..

i could use the 16.5's but it didnt last because i would have had to swap front axles, or gears, or swap the rear and eeerr, um it had a spool in it which made it miserable on the street
 
So what are you doing in the front? You don't have the 9/16s studs up there, right?
 
THE 9/16 studs are factory up front and the front is still in factory form, nothing altered

the reason for the swap was the rear end blow up going down the road a while back... I had just happen to find a 1986 rear 10 bolt that had the 3.42 gears i needed to match the front... It was easier and cheaper to do it this way.
 
Avery4jc said:
No we don't need to grow up, people need to quit trying to hack projects together. We turn away jobs every week from car guys because we don't want the liability, not because we couldn't do what they were asking but because there's too much risk involved when a guy off the street comes in and wants a part machined that could potentially fail if used/installed incorrectly.
Why risk it for a stupid couple hundred dollar job?

I had a guy come in the other day and got all pissed because we couldn't drop what we were doing and machine a little part for his POS Honda. He was trying to put different CV shafts in it and wanted us to drill the correct bolt pattern into the flanges right there on the spot, and of course his next question was how much.... then yep, you guessed it... wanted to haggle on the price.

I felt like telling him, "See that bucket we're line boring back there? It's about a $10k job, you want us to pull that guy off of that so we can drill out your CV's for $80?"
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I understand what you're saying but its apples and oranges. Putting 9/16ths screw in studs in a wheel spacer where theres a 7/16ths press in studs is probably a diameter increase of maybe a 1/16th if that.

And IMO if people what stupid ****, pay cash, no receipt I dont know your stupid ass if something happens.
 
wouldnt it be the same thing if it was press in studs replacing press in studs?
 
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