OK, so I got some new tires on my '07 GMC Sierra Crew Cab. I went with Toyo Open Country MT 315/60R20 LT. I love the look and we took the truck down to the river this past weekend to put in food plots and it worked great except for a couple of issues.
1. When I turn the wheel hard the tires rub on the sway bar. I'm using stock wheels and there's no offset on them. The only solution I can come up with to stop the rubbing is to get wheel spacers. When I spoke to one of the tire salesmen at a shop (that I didn't buy the tires at) he told me that if I put wheel spacers on he'd never ride with me and indicated that they were dangerous. Are they? I've never heard of any problems but my son-in-law told me that you MUST thread lock them on and you also can't tighten the nuts on them too much or you'll crack the spacer. So, are they dangerous or problematic?
2. I towed my tractor and bush hog down to our land on the river and whenever we took off after stopping, the rear tires would rub for a second or two, then as speed picked up they quit and would be fine, even when going down a rough gravel road. Again, my SIL told me about a product that he saw on TruckUTV that was a spring helper that you could crank in and out of service with a 1/2" ratchet. Does anybody know what that product might be? He saw it last year and told me about it, but neither one of us can remember what it was called or who made it.
Thanks guys!
Mike
1. When I turn the wheel hard the tires rub on the sway bar. I'm using stock wheels and there's no offset on them. The only solution I can come up with to stop the rubbing is to get wheel spacers. When I spoke to one of the tire salesmen at a shop (that I didn't buy the tires at) he told me that if I put wheel spacers on he'd never ride with me and indicated that they were dangerous. Are they? I've never heard of any problems but my son-in-law told me that you MUST thread lock them on and you also can't tighten the nuts on them too much or you'll crack the spacer. So, are they dangerous or problematic?
2. I towed my tractor and bush hog down to our land on the river and whenever we took off after stopping, the rear tires would rub for a second or two, then as speed picked up they quit and would be fine, even when going down a rough gravel road. Again, my SIL told me about a product that he saw on TruckUTV that was a spring helper that you could crank in and out of service with a 1/2" ratchet. Does anybody know what that product might be? He saw it last year and told me about it, but neither one of us can remember what it was called or who made it.
Thanks guys!
Mike
