Intro to fitting 35s (< 3" Lifts for those that wheel and love alignments)

How much lower backspacing do you think would be required to not rub your sway bar? I was considering 315's with 4.30" or 4.28" backspacing wheels given I have tubular UCAs.

 

I’m not 100% sure but a 4in bs might clear the sway bar.

 

I'm on a 3 inch lift from Icon, Icon UCA, and with t8 seekers wheels that have -38 offset. I have already got a bmc done. After following and reading this thread for some time, I can probably assume I gotta do a whole BMR to fit 35s on my rig

 

I have a -25 offset and still rub with a BMR these offsets are rough haha I rub on the firewall not the body mount

 

Been debating throwing in the max caster front tabs in my Poly Taco tabs kit (currently running neutral front, max rear). I still get some slight rubbing at the firewall (I think some more BFH action will solve that) and slightly on the driver side frame at full lock. Curious if anyone has made that move/adjustment with tabs and what they saw/what it impacted. It should give me even more caster, but not sure how that's affecting the rub on the frame. If its inevitable due to backspacing/tires/etc.. then I wont bother playing with the tabs.

 

So you are saying it drives absolutely fine on highway when making turns at high speed?

 

In an adrenaline induced kind of way.

 

Ok I thought so I will be keeping mine as I travel mountain passes loaded quite often.

 

I've taken mine through some gnarly mountain passes... it rolls a bit.. but it is what it is. just drive slower knowing your truck and weight.

 

Hm.

I’m thinking more like if I need to do a quick maneuver at 65+. Or let’s say I’m going downhill 65-70 in a sharp turn and need to brake hard quick. Not that these situations are common, but there are a lot of morons on the road.

I’m usually at max payload when I travel, so there is that too.

 

I mean.. sure, it would help I guess. I tossed mine 10+ years ago and havent even once thought.. "man.. I wish I had my sway bar for ....". just my 2 cents. My truck is over GVWR.. so I know how it goes. I've beefed up everything I can so far to help combat (gusseting, bracing, hangers, custom leaf pack, wilwood bbk, etc). I still feel the truck sway and move occasionally, but that's my doing with building the truck up, Just gotta know the limits and stay within them.

 

Honestly if you are at max payload, going down hill at 65-70 in a sharp turn and brake hard, sway bar or not that’s probably not going to end well.

With that said I took mine off long ago as well and drive canyons everyday with a heavy truck and haven’t really ever ran into an issue. I also have fairly soft suspension.

There’s an easy test you can do. Pull it off and drive around. Hit a canyon. Some turns, etc. see if you like it or not. It’s maybe. 20-30 minute job to remove. Hell, remove the ends and tie them up to test it. That’s even less work.

 

Its actually not bad at all, you have to take some tight corners pretty fast to induce enough roll to make you pucker. In those cases you slow down a bit, most highways and interstates will never see it, theres only a few mountain roads here that I'm like ok this stretch will be slow.

 

this for sure. I found one of those roads and the limits in Oregon coming back from picking up our Camper. Traction control kicked in, but I also had enough roll for the stainless brake lines on my BBK to rub the tires' sidewall lugs. moved them out of the way since then..

 

Still debating this...
Remove sway bar or add a .25-.5" high quality hub centric spacer to get my tire to clear my sway bar? I need to remove my sway bar and measure the clearance needed. I can't seem to get to motorsport-tech.com right now, hopefully they're still around.
Seriously heavy truck with a couple hundred pounds of weight from racks and RTT, above CG, make me a bit leery about sway bar removal.

 

I threw my sway bar away like 10 years ago. My truck weighs ~6600lbs. You adapt and learn.

 

what's a sway bar

 

Remove it, it's one of the best free mods.
I cut mine up and turned it into a gate hinge.
Gate will still be there a 100 years from now.
Good luck with your truck.

 

Yeah and it looks like Motorsport-tech might be gone. Phone doesn't go through either.

 

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gcgKbUTQJy8