Wheel Backspacing

[carpeonnel]

Got a noob question about backspacing on 3/4 ton running gear i'm putting in my blazer. I'm switching to 38s on my K5 and ordered 15x12 wheels for the tires and I think the backspacing is 2 3/4". Is this right cuz I know stock backspacing 3/4 ton stuff is what, 4 in?

 

[Craig Artzner]

You ordered rims and don't know the backspacing of them ???!!!!!!

You'd be surprised at how many callbacks we get at Summit from poor souls who guessed on their backspacing measurements. Then they want us to take the rims back after they mounted tires on them because their wheel rubs on their brake caliper.

I tell them to get familiar with the selling end of eBay.

 

[Bow-Tie-Boy]

You'd be surprised at how many callbacks we get at Summit from poor souls who guessed on their backspacing measurements. Then they want us to take the rims back after they mounted tires on them because their wheel rubs on their brake caliper.

I tell them to get familiar with the selling end of eBay.

Tell them to break out the grinder and fix it. It's my feeling that the general public is pretty stupid. I love to give them responses like that after they have proved my theory. Maybe that's why I am in the army and not part of the real world.

 

[Craig Artzner]

Tell them to break out the grinder and fix it.

That's definitely how I would tell a knowledgable person to fix it. But telling someone who can't even measure backspacing to go grind down their caliper makes me nervous and wonder what else they don't know how to do.

Then we get the callback from the same guy months later saying something like "But your representative told me to grind it down and now it's cracked".