Longer wheel studs

I plan on adding a 1\4 inch wheel spacers on my 2015. Ive looked online and cant seem to find 1\4 inch longer studs. Has anyone done this and if so what studs and lug nuts did you use?

 

You’re opening a can of worms.

Are the 1/4” spacers hub centric?

what are the 1/4” spacers helping you achieve?

 

2015 sport with 17 inch factory wheels and 275\70\17 tires. The tires are rubbing the uca at times. I like the wheels so i just wanted to try a small spacer. I found the spacer at wheelers offroad.

 

You’re headed in the right direction. The possible problem that you’re going to encounter is that the stock wheels are hub centric, and the spacers are not. They do make hub centric spacers specifically for our trucks, but I believe the thinnest one is 3/4”.

 

Hub centric is important not just for balance and vibration, its for strength too. There should be a lip on the hub that the wheel can rest on like Bora or Spidertrax.

That generic style spacer will push the wheel away from the hub in such a way that the whole weight of the vehicle is resting on the studs only.

The weight should be on the lip of the hub and the wheel center, the studs should just hold the wheel on the face of the hub.

Those cheap spacers are not a huge deal on little cars like a Honda Civic or your buddies WRX. On a bigger rig with bigger wheels/tires it can be dangerous

Just my 2 cents..

 

Well, it looks like im kinda screwed... i really only wanted 1\4 inch spacer but cant find anything hubcentric under 1". The only idea i see that might work is buying the 1\4 inch spacer and hubcentric ring? Has anyone tried a 2 piece setup?

 

I was in the same boat as you, wanted a little offset but not too much.

I settled on .75 inch Boras and had zero problems. Literally they were on there for 75,000 miles and I practically forgot about them

 

Yes be cautious with spacers, I’ve heard of catastrophic results. I did it on my el camino, used billet spacers and arp studs, no problems.

 

For what it's worth, the weight of the vehicle is neither on the studs nor on the hubcentric portion. It is on the face between the rotor and the backside of the wheel. Hubcentricity is purely to centre the wheel, once the lug nuts are tightened, no weight is transfered via that portion of the hub. That's why you can often get away without hubrings if using tapered lug nuts, and also why hubcentric rings can be made of relatively weak material like plastic, they shouldn't see any force.

For reference, the lug nuts are torqued to 76 lbf-ft, which (roughly) corresponds to 9650 lbf of clamping force on each wheel stud. For most Tacomas, there are 6 studs per wheel, which is 57,900 lbf of force clamping the wheel to the brake rotor. The static friction coefficient between the wheel and rotor is going to be in the neighbourhood of 0.5 to 0.6, which means that you're going to need more than around 29,000 lbf per wheel to start to apply force to the hub centre.

Jeff

 

i have 3/4” Boras as well and am happy with them.

 

Yep, and make sure to torque them properly

 

Does anyone have any pictures with the .75 spacers with factory wheels?

 

I don’t have factory wheels but I sent you a pic of it installed