SuperTrack Wheel Spacers

   / SuperTrack Wheel Spacers #2  
My opinion is if the truck engineers felt the need for the front axle to have a wider track than the rear or vice-versa, they had a good reason.

Pushing the wheels out further than designed without a new wheel to compensate for the new offset seems like it would stress the wheel bearing more than originally designed, especially at highway speeds. Thank goodness that stupid low-rider fad of putting undersized tires on radical offset wheels seems to be dieing out. It made the car look like a skateboard.

Oh well, at least this outfit isn't claiming higher gas mileage through the use of magnets.
 
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Pushing the wheels out further than designed without a new wheel to compensate for the new offset seems like it would stress the wheel bearing more than originally designed, especially at highway speeds.
I would most of the time but here we are talking about an axle that can accommodate dual wheels. So you wouldn't putting a wheel somewhere it wouldn't normally be any way.
 
   / SuperTrack Wheel Spacers #4  
This looks kinda lame to me. Assuming you put the same size spacer on each side, how does that change "driving crooked down the road"? Even a spacer on one side only wouldn't change the geometry of a fixed rear axle. As for not changing the wheel bearing load on a dually, it would. Moving the wheels outwards would put more load on the smaller outer bearing. Granted, those full floaters are strong, but I wouldn't do it. I agree that some things should be left the way they were engineered originally. A "thrust line" alignment or "compensated alignment" should correct if the rear axle is somehow not exactly perpendicular to the frame rails.
 

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