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Just for a quick check, take the front spacers off and remount the rims. If the vibration goes away, its not a balance issue. This is how I found out

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Old 07-28-2011, 07:27 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Just for a quick check, take the front spacers off and remount the rims. If the vibration goes away, its not a balance issue. This is how I found out my spacers were causing my vibration.
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Just for a quick check, take the front spacers off and remount the rims. If the vibration goes away, its not a balance issue. This is how I found out my spacers were causing my vibration.
How can you do this without bottoming out the lug nut on the stud? without the spacer the studs are too long for the factory lugs. now open ended lugs would be fine, but not the closed ones.
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How can you do this without bottoming out the lug nut on the stud? without the spacer the studs are too long for the factory lugs. now open ended lugs would be fine, but not the closed ones.
The factory lugs have 15mm of headroom. But I think in this case he is talking about the Forgestar wheels.
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The factory lugs have 15mm of headroom. But I think in this case he is talking about the Forgestar wheels.
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