1" wheel spacers/centramatic wheel balancers/cv front driveshaft/4.88/locking hubs
Just thought I would report that I put on 1" wheel spacers, centramatic wheel balancers, and shortened front CV shaft from tacoma on my truck tonight. The spacers got rid of my very mild rubbing at full lock, I still need to figure out where the rub will be at full compression, but I will let my tires mark those points for me to hack off at later date.
The centramatic wheel balancers work great when mounted to a wheel that is already well balanced (again I recommend the Hunter GSP9700). Any vibration I used to have is now gone...and will most likely stay gone unless I loose an entire lug or something (which I still think the wheel balancer would be able to accomodate without too much worry).
The 1" wheel spacers are as large as one can go before loosing too much of the hub surface to mount the wheel onto...(don't forget we have hubcentric wheels, so they need a nice resting place). The centramatic wheel balancers would fit the rear without the spacers, but WILL NOT fit the front without the spacers (as the caliper gets in the way ).
Also, the bolt that holds the spacers on to the hub protruded ever so slightly out of the outer surface of the spacer itself. Would not be an issue with our stock wheels as they have a slight indentation built into the wheel at this location (almost like they were ready for spacer nuts). Howerver, since I used a centramatic wheel balance between my spacer and wheel surface, I did have to torque the bolts on pretty good to FORM MOLD the balancer to fit the contours of the uneven mating surface. When I took the wheel off after this step, I had a newly adapted (molded) wheel balancer. There was no 'wobble' to the wheel aftwards...if you were wondering. OH and I used BLUE locktite to keep it from vibrating loose.
I finally got around to installing the shortened Tacoma x-cab v6 4x4 rear CV shaft. Works great. car-part.com sometimes has them for under 100.00. You can then get them shortened and balanced for around 60 bucks. I had a shaft dropped shipped from non-local junk yard to tom woods and he ships it back for free.
oh, and I am now 4.88 geared and have locking/unlocking hubs installed.
If anyone is interested, I can give a long term report in a few months...going to San Juan mountains with LSLC/GCC/TAC this august.
Kumar
edited to add pictures:
**with the following pic you can see where the balancer shows indentations from "pressing" into the bolt heads of the spacer to the hub. it was thin aluminum and molded nicely.
Just thought I would report that I put on 1" wheel spacers, centramatic wheel balancers, and shortened front CV shaft from tacoma on my truck tonight. The spacers got rid of my very mild rubbing at full lock, I still need to figure out where the rub will be at full compression, but I will let my tires mark those points for me to hack off at later date.
The centramatic wheel balancers work great when mounted to a wheel that is already well balanced (again I recommend the Hunter GSP9700). Any vibration I used to have is now gone...and will most likely stay gone unless I loose an entire lug or something (which I still think the wheel balancer would be able to accomodate without too much worry).
The 1" wheel spacers are as large as one can go before loosing too much of the hub surface to mount the wheel onto...(don't forget we have hubcentric wheels, so they need a nice resting place). The centramatic wheel balancers would fit the rear without the spacers, but WILL NOT fit the front without the spacers (as the caliper gets in the way ).
Also, the bolt that holds the spacers on to the hub protruded ever so slightly out of the outer surface of the spacer itself. Would not be an issue with our stock wheels as they have a slight indentation built into the wheel at this location (almost like they were ready for spacer nuts). Howerver, since I used a centramatic wheel balance between my spacer and wheel surface, I did have to torque the bolts on pretty good to FORM MOLD the balancer to fit the contours of the uneven mating surface. When I took the wheel off after this step, I had a newly adapted (molded) wheel balancer. There was no 'wobble' to the wheel aftwards...if you were wondering. OH and I used BLUE locktite to keep it from vibrating loose.
I finally got around to installing the shortened Tacoma x-cab v6 4x4 rear CV shaft. Works great. car-part.com sometimes has them for under 100.00. You can then get them shortened and balanced for around 60 bucks. I had a shaft dropped shipped from non-local junk yard to tom woods and he ships it back for free.
oh, and I am now 4.88 geared and have locking/unlocking hubs installed.
If anyone is interested, I can give a long term report in a few months...going to San Juan mountains with LSLC/GCC/TAC this august.
Kumar
edited to add pictures:
**with the following pic you can see where the balancer shows indentations from "pressing" into the bolt heads of the spacer to the hub. it was thin aluminum and molded nicely.
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