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  1. jesusgatos

    Jesus Gatos wheel center flip

    Glad to hear you got that all sorted out!
  2. jesusgatos

    Jesus Gatos wheel center flip

    Yes, increasing the scrub radius will put some additional strain on those parts. How much? Meh, I'm not too worried about it.
  3. jesusgatos

    Jesus Gatos wheel center flip

    The toe-in hasn't changed. That's totally independent of the wheels. I'd be curious to know how much offset/backspacing you ended up with if it's not too much trouble to measure. The 'slack' having to do with the tie-rod could then only be coming from either of those two ball-joints. Slack in...
  4. jesusgatos

    Jesus Gatos wheel center flip

    My toe is set at just a little bit more than 1/8" (43" dia. tires), and I didn't notice any handling problems (wandering, shimmying, etc.), but like I said - I haven't put more than a few miles on the truck since mounting the new wheels/tires. I didn't measure the runout of any of my tires...
  5. jesusgatos

    Jesus Gatos wheel center flip

    Looks sharp! Hope switching those tires around does the trick. 1/4" is a lot. I wasn't able to get many of my rims better than within 1/8" either. Mostly because the rim shells weren't perfectly round/straight. If you're not planning on adding any type of PS, you might notice the extra scrub (I...
  6. jesusgatos

    Jesus Gatos wheel center flip

    Sorry to hear that you're having problems with those wheels. What tires are you running? With 11.00's the scrub radius isn't THAT bad. If I remember right, I think G calculated that it should be about 2 3/8"? Nothing I was too concerned about because I'm adding full hydro steering. Haven't put...
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