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All of my rims are turned facing out like your front tires with the valve stem easily accessible. Do you have your rear rims turned around? That may explain why the valve stem is blocked by the drum. I have the same, MRAP rims with adapter plates. I'm pretty sure they are all CTIS compatible. If your rear tires stick out further than the front tires if the rims are flipped around, then the hubs need to be flipped, though I would think that's noticable due to the lugs sticking way out for super singles.
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the rims are from 98g m35a2. The rears are turned around. Deep side out or dished out the way they are is the way 98g had them but he doesn’t remember ever putting air in them
as they are now. Hubs not flipped they seem almost perfect with the fronts this way. If I flip the hubs and having the flat side out in rear will it then line up width wise to fronts ?
flipping the hubs is that the only option I have to have access to valve stem please advise
as they are now. Hubs not flipped they seem almost perfect with the fronts this way. If I flip the hubs and having the flat side out in rear will it then line up width wise to fronts ?
flipping the hubs is that the only option I have to have access to valve stem please advise
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My hubs weren't flipped. They were dish out.
I never noticed the lack of valve stem access because I never had a low tire and never had to add air.
I speculate that a 90* valve stem extension would resolve it.
Flipping the hubs (a non-trivial amount of work) should allow for running them dish in with the same track width. The last truck I used aluminum MRAP rims and adapter plates on, I flipped the hubs. I don't recall if they were exactly the same rims., but I'm thinking they were.
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I never noticed the lack of valve stem access because I never had a low tire and never had to add air.
I speculate that a 90* valve stem extension would resolve it.
Flipping the hubs (a non-trivial amount of work) should allow for running them dish in with the same track width. The last truck I used aluminum MRAP rims and adapter plates on, I flipped the hubs. I don't recall if they were exactly the same rims., but I'm thinking they were.
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I'm pretty sure all the hubs on mine are flipped, which is how the rims are all flat side out and all the rear tracks with the front. @Godspeed131, he had the truck set up that way when I bought it, so perhaps he might chime in to verify if that's correct.
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Yea that’s correct I flipped the hubs when it was swapped over to singles. Coming from other members, flipping hubs also centers the loads across the bearings. Hub swaps are also great time to Insp for all those unseen hidden surprises, checking for bearing and race wear, seals deteriorating, leaking wheel cylinders, cracking wheel studs, and the list goes on.