will cragar soft 8s fit on stock lift?

[mopartilidie]

2007 liberty sport. i just wanted to know if these would fit on my stock lift without any trouble

http://www.summitracing.com/parts/CRR-3978812/

 

[Clyde Frog]

What do you mean by "stock lift"? Your stock suspension? As in, you haven't added any lift to it, right?

 

[JeepINgeek]

i belive you want 4" backspace 7" wide wheel...

 

[mopartilidie]

yea stock suspension sorry. and yea i found some other ones that i liked. bolt patter is right, and they're offset for rwd jeep which is what mine is. but its a 15x8 not 15x7. will those work w/out a problem?

 

[JeepINgeek]

we have verrrry tiny little wheel wells in the front.. i beleive the 8" wheel will rub your suspension..

let Tom or tjkj chime in.. but as the research ive done thats how i understand it.

 

[mopartilidie]

man, one little inch will make that huge of a difference?

 

[DirtyKK]

the 15" rims have to have 4" of backspacing or less so an 8" rim will stick out an inch more then a 7" rim. a 7" rim with 4" of backspacing will rub even with a small 30x9.5 unless you are lifted. an 8" rim would make it worse, not to mention you shouldnt put that narrow of a tire on a 8" rim anyway.

 

[mopartilidie]

so if i went with a 16x7 rim, and leave the stock tires on...that should be fine right?

 

[J-Thompson]

what about this
rather than spend $40 per rim ,$200 (5 rims)
save some more money
lift the Jeep and put some man tires on there
unless your current rims have a problem that can not be fixed

 

[mopartilidie]

b/c along with the lift comes 600 worth of tires and 200 worth of rims, and the lift is 750.
1550 for all that or 200-400 for wheels.
I just wanna give it a better look now yunno? b/c im gonna have to wait til after college or after its paid off to lift it and all

 

[DirtyKK]

stock tires will probably still rub with the 16x7 due to the offset. in my opinion it would look better just by getting some meatier tires on stock rims, you could even paint them black if you wanted. i had steel rims before and got rid of them because they are super heavy and killed my mileage and power.

 

[mopartilidie]

what is the stock offset?

 

[DirtyKK]

5.5" backspacing, not sure what that equates to in offset

 

[mopartilidie]

im gonna take it to a 4 wheel parts store near me and have them give me an exact measurement of the size rim i can fit on there stock lol. this is too confusing

 

[tommudd]

Not confusing at all
you need to stay as close as possible to the stock backspacing due to not being lifted and by the small amount of room you have in the fenderwells when stock.
Most aftermarket wheels do not work that well at stock height , plain and simple
do like J-Thompson stated get a good set of tires and go from there. Tires help 100 %

 

[Jo6pak]

im gonna take it to a 4 wheel parts store near me and have them give me an exact measurement of the size rim i can fit on there stock lol. this is too confusing

I was just as lost as you when I started looking for wheel info.
Check out this thread, it helped me immensely.
http://www.jeepkj.com/forum/showthread.php?t=27335

 

[J-Thompson]

b/c along with the lift comes 600 worth of tires and 200 worth of rims, and the lift is 750.
1550 for all that or 200-400 for wheels.
I just wanna give it a better look now yunno? b/c im gonna have to wait til after college or after its paid off to lift it and all

new rims serve NO function
lift does
tires do

and like I said is there a problem with the stock wheels?
I would still be running the stock steel wheels on my TJ if some one
did not give me the OE alum. wheels
we ran 245/75 MTR's on the stock LTD wheels on the KJ with OME springs and shocks
if it is not broke why do you want to fix it?

even better than all this
go to tire rack
look for 225/75 R16's
BFG KM2
or Kumho somethings
will fit stock rims and stock ride hight
and look 100X better than putting some crappy cheep tire and rims

oh and if you have over 36K miles your shocks are probably shot
if you have over 50K I know they are
so the "lift" is about $250 ,damn close to the cost of those rims
as the only "extra" is the OME springs

 

[mopartilidie]

Ya that's a good point lol. I might just see how much it is to get the stock wheels painted. Just trying to break up the red yunno