Tire's rub on A arm's

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I have Al's Gen 3.5 A arms and noticed today that my 255/70/16's are rubbing on them at full lock. Anyone else have this problem?
 

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instead of spending the money for spacers, spend a little more and just get a set of cregar soft 8 rims, they should solve that rubbing problem ($268 for a set of 4 shipped)
 

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Not trying Thread Hijack but the cregar soft 8 rims, if I have stock rims with 245/75/16...what size rims would I need?

Thanks

If you want to run the same tires as your running (assuming just swapping rims) you'll want 16x7 with th 5x4.5 bolt pattern. I guess you can run 16x8 but as posted above... I just don't know about that.
 

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He will still get rub with OEM rims and 255's,no way around that unless you use spacers or get new rims to reduce the back spacing from 5.5" to at least 4"-4.5".

That may be true but I suggested that because the 4.5's really improved things for me and they do seem to give more tire clearance. JBA has an upgrade program that the OP could also take advantage of. But if he doesn't have spring contact with his 3.5's like I did then maybe rims is all he needs.
 

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That may be true but I suggested that because the 4.5's really improved things for me and they do seem to give more tire clearance. JBA has an upgrade program that the OP could also take advantage of. But if he doesn't have spring contact with his 3.5's like I did then maybe rims is all he needs.

No spring contact, so hopefully the new rims will fix the problem.

Thanks icarl for the ideas!
 

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If you want to run the same tires as your running (assuming just swapping rims) you'll want 16x7 with th 5x4.5 bolt pattern. I guess you can run 16x8 but as posted above... I just don't know about that.

Thank you. Does that include backspacing? Sry ive never delt with rims before
 
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