If the spacers are installed a maintained correctly, I think that added leverage can equally be created with wheel offset. Either way, the tires are larger and stick out further, creating more wear on steering, brake, and suspension parts.
Absolutely, but it would still be the worn or bent or loose parts causing the death wobble. Obviously ball joints will wear faster with high offset/ large tires, but replaced with HD ball joints you still won't have death wobble.
Just avoid Dynatrac HD ball joints. Thor quality has slipped immensely, and their support is non existent.
No experience with their's, teraflex are holding up well to 39s and 1.5" spacers on stock XR wheels for the last 15k miles on the wife's JLUR. I'm still on the stock ball joints with 37s and 1.5" spacers on the JT mojave.
Yea it did. If you didn’t have it before you install them and then install them and get it and then take them off and it goes away, it’s the culprit.
Unless you had a machining error on the spacers themselves, again you have another issue. It's like the dealer fixing death wobble with a new stabilizer. It's a mask. Something else was causing the death wobble and the eccentric leverage exposed it. It will be back don't worry.
I had 1.75” spidertrax with my stock Rubi wheels and 37’s for about 30k miles. No issues whatsoever.
I can tell you with 100% certainty that the wheel spacers on my 2021 Diesel Overland Gladiator caused the death wobble. You have no idea how many off-road Jeep shops tried to diagnose the issue. No bent or worn-out parts or machining error, it's a piece of billet aluminum for God's sake. I made a comment to try and caution another member about my experience with wheel spacers, period!
Can I run the Spidertrax on all 4 wheels? I don’t like the look of just the front tires being further out. Also seems like a better idea to have the rear tires tracking the same as the front for heavy rain traction.
What size tire were you running on the stock rim with the 1.75 inch spacer?I went with 1.75 inch Teraflex spacers and love them thus far. I knew they would only be temporary. However it's taken me longer than expected to buy my aftermarket wheels. But these have been great for my stock wheels. Poke amount is just right. I'm even basing the offset of whatever new wheels I do get off the same amount/effect. To echo @bleda2002 above, My new wheels I'm trying to stay around a 0 offset for the same effect. Once I get the new wheels of course I'll ditch the Teraflex spacers but I highly recommend them.
I've been wheeling with them numerous times. Nothing against Spidertrax but I've got other Teraflex products and know they're reputable. Plus I try to keep as many of the same brands that I can.
