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Originally Posted by OrangePips
Hi John and all LandCruiser owners on this forum.
This is a great work that has been described on this thread. For me it was the confirmation that I should start modifying my 100 LandCruiser.
Suspensionwise I fully swaped stock suspension to OME, which gave me arnd 2 inches of lift in the back and 1 inch in the front which I know can be adjusted by torsion bars.
However I have one problem. I have custom made forged 18" wheels with 7,25 (ET 55) of backspacing and the width of 9". Current tire size is 285-60-18 which is about 31,5 inches. I know that you had stock 16" wheels with ET 60 and width of 8". I noticed you installed 315 wide rubber on your wheels and had a minor tire to vehicle contact on the lower arm. My worries are that now with my tire size as mentioned I have around 1 santimiter of space between the tire and the upper A arm. I am planning on installing 305 wide tires namely 305-60-18, which is 33 " in diameter. The increase in width will give me 10 millimitres increase on each side of the tire which equals the amount of space left. I am confused a little bit, how is it possible that you used 315 tires without not having trouble with upper A arm without adding wheel spacers. I really hesitate on buying the spacers and also I don't know what to do with 305 tires. Haven't bought them yet. May be I made my measurements wrong.
Do you have any photos of underneath the front fender when the wheel is fully turned to one side with 315 tires. I just wanted to visually compare my situation to yours.
I am grateful for any help. Thanks. Askar.
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Congrats on your mods. While I'm not sure about your rim/tire/backspacing combo I can tell you that fitting 315's with only a 1" T-bar increase will leave you with more problems. And yes, hitting your fender when turned and stuffed, or turning and hitting a bump will happen. I took 2.75" up for me to eliminate that. The only pic I can think of I've shown below.
Wheel spacers for ME are not an option on a 4-wheeler. I will not add the stress to the components. Other take the risk and that's OK. It's their truck.
If you want to run the bigger tires you'll need to add the trim packs to the rear and trim the front more.
Also note the tire model makes a difference. The BFG AT's and MT's fit fine. I've heard some with real wide lugs rub even more.
