wheel spacers?

JeepNCrowd · **Posted:** Thu Jan 24, 2013 10:33 am

I know a lot of people don't recommend wheel spacers. But I need something to stop the rear tire from rubbing on the cobnrol arm at full drop. I think that's what is causing a lot of the racket im hearing in the back. Im thinkg of pushing the rear wheels out. What arw some problems that wheel spacers cause?
I might use one or two .25" spacers. Or should I just go for the big spidertrax spacers?

Eventually I'll get offset rims, but I've got to stop this sound.

tommudd · **Posted:** Thu Jan 24, 2013 10:52 am

Do not use .25 inch spacers unless you want big time problems
You lose that many threads and they do crack after some time, seen it happen
IF YOU HAVE TO use 1.25 spidertrax
but after you buy them for 125 bucks may as well buy wheels

JeepNCrowd · **Posted:** Thu Jan 24, 2013 12:05 pm

Short of buying wheels. Becausr my wife wont let me spend anymore large sums of money for awhile, any other suggestions to prevent the contact?

lfhoward · **Posted:** Thu Jan 24, 2013 12:25 pm

JeepNCrowd, are you running without a rear sway bar, so that you get more suspension travel? If so, how much would you lose by putting it back on? It might limit the droop, preventing the wheel contact with the control arm. Just a thought-- please ignore if this doesn't make sense for your rig.

JeepNCrowd · **Posted:** Thu Jan 24, 2013 1:05 pm

The sway bar is still on. I could adjust the trac bar, but that would affect thrust angle. The proble is, because of the geometry, when the rear diff drops the whole axle starts to travel towatds the driver side. In my case its trsveling do far that the tire hits the control arm.

Scar0 · **Posted:** Thu Jan 24, 2013 2:43 pm

As a temp fix till you get it figured out, you can put a limiting strap on it to prevent full drop.

huntb · **Posted:** Thu Jan 24, 2013 3:31 pm

tommudd wrote:

Do not use .25 inch spacers unless you want big time problems
You lose that many threads and they do crack after some time, seen it happen
IF YOU HAVE TO use 1.25 spidertrax
but after you buy them for 125 bucks may as well buy wheels

I'm not looking to get these, but where did you find 4 Spidertrax spacers for only $125??

JeepNCrowd · **Posted:** Thu Jan 24, 2013 3:36 pm

How would I attach it?
Would it be ok to attach it to the Axle?

Quote:

I'm not looking to get these, but where did you find 4 Spidertrax spacers for only $125??

JBA has them for $125 and 4wheelparts sells them for $99

huntb · **Posted:** Thu Jan 24, 2013 3:47 pm

Oh, he was talking for just the rear. My fault

Ted15 · **Posted:** Thu Jan 24, 2013 4:03 pm

If you don't mind smittybilt stuff, 4WP sells the G2 brand for close to half of what spidertrac costs.

JeepNCrowd · **Posted:** Thu Jan 24, 2013 5:23 pm

Ted15 wrote:

If you don't mind smittybilt stuff, 4WP sells the G2 brand for close to half of what spidertrac costs.

How much did you ind them for? I can't seem to find them on the site?

I'm starting to wonder if the the drive shaft is hitting the gas tank too. I'll have to jack it up and see tommorrow.

Ted15 · **Posted:** Thu Jan 24, 2013 9:31 pm

JeepNCrowd wrote:

Ted15 wrote:

If you don't mind smittybilt stuff, 4WP sells the G2 brand for close to half of what spidertrac costs.

How much did you ind them for? I can't seem to find them on the site?

I'm starting to wonder if the the drive shaft is hitting the gas tank too. I'll have to jack it up and see tommorrow.

I saw them in their catalog. You can get rock krawler time for about fifty bucks each with the backspace you need.

Diggerfreek · **Posted:** Fri Jan 25, 2013 2:15 am

I run my rear axle .25 to .50 inches offset to the driver side because the OEM drive shaft makes contact with the gas tank skid. I totally forgot to tell you this :oops:

I now have a woody drive shaft but pushing the axle over will help with noise and you shouldn't notice it driving

See the scraps

Look at the gas tank skid

lfhoward · **Posted:** Fri Jan 25, 2013 12:10 pm

Digger, I see Tom Woods has several driveshaft options for the Liberty. Which one did you end up going with? I like that it is much narrower than the bloated OEM driveshaft.

Diggerfreek · **Posted:** Sat Jan 26, 2013 6:01 pm

Mine looks just like the second one pictured with the CV on the left

JeepNCrowd · **Posted:** Tue Jan 29, 2013 1:02 am

Diggerfreak I think I neef one of those driveshafts. I now think it was hitting the gas tank skid. There was a little lip protruding from the skid that lined up with scratch marks on the driveshaft, similar to the ones in your you photo. I took a hacksaw to the little protrusion and leveled it with the rest of the skid. I wad going to test it out at an offroad ranch with a loca l club last Saturday, but I ended up getting a metal shaving lodged in my cornea. I ended up spenind friday night & Saturday morning in the ER getting it removed.
Lesson learnd, always wear eye pro when working under the Jeep. Lol.

I think I will try off setting the track bar too though. Hopefully, I'll get to test it out on the trails soon.

At The Helm · **Posted:** Tue Jan 29, 2013 12:20 pm

JeepNCrowd wrote:

I ended up getting a metal shaving lodged in my cornea. I ended up spenind friday night & Saturday morning in the ER getting it removed.
Lesson learnd, always wear eye pro when working under the Jeep. Lol.

Welcome to the club, x1000 on safety glasses. I don't do any metal work period without them after doing exactly what you did.

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