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Wheel spacers

It means they center the wheel up 2 different ways for a quality smooth ride. Also helps with load bearing.
 
These ones are even steel.

 
Lug nuts center and hold load .

Hub center hold load lugs just clamp it.

Best is hub centric for hard and heavy abuse. But aftermarket has done lug centric for years with no major problems .

And lots of cheepy spacers are cast or cheep aluminum . . . If me and dont wana think abkut it go steel .

And if spacing DRW apart for fatter tires its REQUIRED to use hub centric spacers as DRW rims center off the narrow machined pad on DRW hubs .
 
Hub centric uses the hub to center the wheel. Lug centric uses the lugs themselves
 
Ask @Fastereddie about where your wheel and tire goes, when your spacer fails, on the pavement.
I was wondering if someone would mention this. I thought about replying, but I figured mine was a 2-piece 6 to 8 lug adapter that failed, and would 100% recommend against those. Spacers (meh), your probably ok, but I won’t ever run anything except the correct wheel after that. I dodged a huge bullet and won’t test my luck again haha.
 
I was wondering if someone would mention this. I thought about replying, but I figured mine was a 2-piece 6 to 8 lug adapter that failed, and would 100% recommend against those. Spacers (meh), your probably ok, but I won’t ever run anything except the correct wheel after that. I dodged a huge bullet and won’t test my luck again haha.
Matter of fact, I put a 1-ton steering kit on my Jeep a couple weeks ago. The wheels I had on it were 5” backspace. The passenger side tire rubbed badly on the drag link at left turn. I just ordered 4.5” backspace wheels to fix it. No spacers for me. 73C86DC8-0325-44CC-BFF7-821C94D539E8.png
 
It was just the back set and I definitely don't remember anything about where I linked em from now that some time has passed. 1.5 because that clears the studs.
 
These are the ones I'm running the rear of my burb.
Don't have a link but there from Amazon. Screenshot_20211210-153112_Dolphin.jpg
 
Most use only the rear to match the rear to front track.

Others do it to increase the axle widths for more sablity.

Still others do all 4 purely for looks
 
Rear axle is 3" skinnier than the front axle. The spacers just make them the same so it looks better.

I've heard of people putting them on the front to run late model stock wheels. But that's because they have a real deep back spacing factory.
 

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