Offroad-Express

Big wrote:Spacers have a max thickness of 20mm and Adaptors have 27mm...You can put an adaptor of the same type of wheel on and get the max of 27mm (adaptors do not rely on the wheel stud to hold them in place as do spacers..cheers

thats correct,

my mate tried to certify his V8 with 30mm spacers and was rejected coz the max allowable was 27mm

so good luck getting a warrant or something with 36mm.


on another note, I've read thru this thread over and over again to try to avoid making a cock of myself, but I can't see anywhere that you say exactly why you think you have a camber problem, is it noticably bent, are your tahs chewing out??

what made you decide you had a problem in the first place

I only ask this as it could play a helping hand with some of the answers

SKID

skid tyres or to you fullas tahs, are wearing badly on the out side edge of the left front, have had a look see and spoken to a guru and he has confirmed that the ball is bent slightly, he has said that it can be straighted and a gusset welded in if I wish. and yes I know my spacers are not legal, I am not intending keeping them on for road use, but need them to clear inner gaurds off road and if I keep with the 35's full time (which I would like to) I will need 25mm to ceep from fouling on the steering arm etc.

pagar wrote:skid tyres or to you fullas tahs, are wearing badly on the out side edge of the left front, have had a look see and spoken to a guru and he has confirmed that the ball is bent slightly, he has said that it can be straighted and a gusset welded in if I wish. .

So thats the problem then. I wouldn't piss about getting it repaired, you should be able to pick up another housing for bugger all. POP to swap over. This is a 70 series truck aye? What steering arm is fouling on your tyres? I run 35s on my truck with normal offset rims and have no issues. (and i had no issues before i did the SOA either) I'm really surprised you have issues cause you say your trucks got a 80 susp lift and a 50mm body lift as well. I reckon that because you have such big spacers on your rims it is effective making the tyre move forward and back further, due to the rim being further from the pivot point (the kingpin)which lets it touch the rim/tyre

well on full lock tyres rub on the main arm from the steering box.

pagar wrote:skid tyres or to you fullas tahs, are wearing badly on the out side edge of the left front, have had a look see and spoken to a guru and he has confirmed that the ball is bent slightly, he has said that it can be straighted and a gusset welded in if I wish.

If your diff is bent. Rather than get it fixed which is not cheap to restraighten and weld a gusset on.

I would spend the money to upgrade to the latter high pinion type .

Advantages

Box section that doesn't bend as easy
Bigger CVs for your 35s
high pinion which is stronger

Thats my penny's worth
Richard

Don't forget the diff ratio need to be the same.

If you have found the houseing is bent personaly I think I'd be looking for a replacement one to swap over rather than piss about trying to realign it. Theres plenty of 70's getting wrecked around the place and your trucks still mobile so you dont have to go and buy the first over-priced one you find