Wheel spacers are safe!

[Sir-jine]

as a mechanic go for it! 😃, it’s more money for my wallet when your ball joints wear out

[BreckandBetty]

Don’t forget to let them know that spacers cause premature wear to suspension and steering components👀

[arturomartinez]

I had hub centric spacer on my silverado 1500 for like 6 years, towed all sorts of trailers and worked the truck without issues, at least until it needed new rotors and drums, the secret is red locktite and grade 8 studs.

[smalltowncustoms]

Wheel spacers, lift kits, bigger tires/rims all put more load on wheel bearings.. they will all cause premature wear to wheel bearings

[pauldiesel]

Wheel spacers are not good for bearings which we all know.
People claiming there is no harm are the same people that will tell you smoking isn’t bad and their grandpa lived to be a 100 and smoked 2 packs a day too.

[Wgee]

Good info, glad someone said it. But the first pic made me realize that you might be able to run different wheels on a full float axle.

[TerraFirmaX]

that's like saying "Pit Bulls are perfectly fine"

[banana]

changing the offset of the steering tires makes your power steering work extra hard.

[jerrymiller]

If you've never had problems with spacers. It's because you don't use your truck as a truck. You use it more like a car and you only drive it. It's common sense. You're messing with the geometry of the front suspension, and all you're doing is causing Premature wear. The same exact thing happens when you change the offset of your wheel.

[AceSpades]

We’ve only had a problem because my dad cheaped out and got low quality ones and they of course failed after a very short amount of time. But now we have very good quality ones and we haven’t had any problems since

[JeffGeisd]

It does apply more torque to your axles and bearing but as long as they aren’t huge spacers you won’t have issues. We run them on Jeep builds all the time.

[zeonicwar]

Omg thanks for this I am going to use this information 🙏🙏

[fishinmagician]

Been running 2” boras in the rear of my truck for 6 years 40, 000 miles or so no issues at all.

[bluehydro]

Also make sure they are steel or forged aluminum. Those cheap Chinese ones will fail under load or cornering. Sometimes the centerbore is what takes the most stress

[benjaminp]

I have had spacers on 3/4ton and 1/2ton trucks n vans hauling weight No problem been at least 10yrs

[ericerto]

Wheel spacers put a lot of extra wear and tear on the vehicle. Though they are functional and they are safe it throws a geometry of the truck off if you don't do any extra reinforcements or upgrades

[rickecotango]

Also make sure your wheel spacer is strong enough for your truck!! I have run so of the cheep Chinese stuff and has some issues towing, bent a couple lugs!! Bought spare lugs and went about my business!!

[torque-ejnu]

Biggest problem i have seen with them is the factory stud sticks out further than the spacer surface and the wheel tightens down on the inner studs instead of the space block. Eventually coming loose and breaking studs. Mostly user error. Also, the further out you set your wheel from the breaing puts more side leverage load on the factory hub and bearing, reducing your payload capacity. It multiplies the load the more leverge you add spacing it out. That is an engineering standpoint on the matter. Way back in the late 80s early 90s people were putting little wheels on imprts that were completely out of the wheel well and we were doing wheel bearings left and right. Same difference.

[ChuckV]

Steel wheels with lots of backspacing is how I usually roll, the one time I smashed up a rim, $65 plus mounting and attempted balancing, probably more these days.

[ryanwatkins]

Yea I pulled the wheel bolts through the wheel spacer they where installed correctly and torqued but none are rated for the load that the stock suspension of a 1994 Chevy S10 is rated for lol after it goes flying through the air