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Old 08-13-2008, 10:15 AM
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i wanna get wheel spacers on my stang but the whole idea of pushign the wheels further out must have it's negatives. can anyone shed some light on this?
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Old 08-13-2008, 10:54 AM
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I am running 5/8" spacers all around. I got them from www.mustangwheelspacers.com so they are the ones that come with longer replacement wheel studs.

The only negative I've experienced is that the front end tends to track lines and curves in the road more.
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Old 08-13-2008, 12:49 PM
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what i meant by cons was about like wear on the bearings and ****. i mean since everythign is pushed further towards the extremeties, isn't there more strain on components?
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Old 08-14-2008, 01:54 AM
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bump motha ****a
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I'm sure there is a little more stress placed on bearings and such, but it's not like they will go bad all that sooner than normal.
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I run some small wheel spacers with my bogarts for added clearance and have been for almost a year now. I have seen no ill effects and I hammer on my car HARD!!! I'm dead hooking the car and pulling the front tires. The spacers have not shown to cause any damage as of yet and I have had the cars suspension apart for different mods on several occassions.

Why do you want to put the wheel spacers on?
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