wheel/tire advice required

[sparkyt]

You got to lower it . Trucks rock with a drop

[damien4884]

Just by looking at the picture. Could you just add some extra spacers/longer bolts where #4 is on bottom diagram which will push the top of wheel into the arch?

[ikon31]

Jan 14, 2012 2:21:47 GMT jjbjoinery said:

theres alot o negativity on this post for some reason... startng to make me think putting my work van on 16s with nicely stretched tyres on and then lowering it 100mm was the wrong thing to do!! yeah I can only take work where theres no speed bumps or do 10mph over the buggers but it looks ace!!! get the pickup slammed so low you gotta dig a trench infront of you just so the sump don't drag

whats your work van bud? get some pics up, i'm all about the practical made inpractical

[ikon31]

Jan 14, 2012 16:09:14 GMT sparkyt said:

You got to lower it . Trucks rock with a drop

look at the tyres on that thing!

[rodney]

slammed trucks are cool , end off, i had a few slammed vans are they are cool , so keep at it fella

[dude]

Jan 14, 2012 15:27:45 GMT murran said:

slot the bottom arm mounting point on the subframe. to take the arms outward to add the camber.

I don't think slotting it will work for very long, you need to make new holes. If you enlenghten the old hole it'll never stay in place unless you make mercedes type bushings.
I drilled new holes on my taunus, worked a treat




....But obviously you should put max camber on it the proper way first, add(or remove if the arm is on the outside) washers to the top arm mounting bolts.
I made spacers for my camaro.

[CIH]

You don't need to modfiy these to get the camber. The upper wishbone mount can be shimmed quite readily.
You need a proper alignemnt shop to do it though, don't bother with the usual high street/tracking places.

[ikon31]

sounds good, a good friend is a mechanical who specialises in track car set ups and what not, so once i've got my tyres fitted i'll get it down to him

[mk2cossie]

Jan 14, 2012 15:27:45 GMT murran said:

slot the bottom arm mounting point on the subframe. to take the arms outward to add the camber.

only problem with doing it that way is it increases the track as well

which isnt the desired effect i believe

is there enough meat on the alloys to get even 5mm taken off the mounting face? that would help a tad

[Dez]

looking at the diagram, it can be done with a bag of washers, and will actually reduce the track a smidge.