Why not offset control arms instead of CMC?

Seems like it should be doable. How wrong am I?

 

If your talking about moving the wheel forward or back inside the well, I don't think it's necessary on our trucks. You only need to worry about that with solid axle vehicles?

 

When you go up to 33” tires you typically rub both front and back, so people end up doing CMC, and remolding or removing the front fender liners.

 

What might be the implications? How much do people typically cut off of their cab mounts?

 

There’s many CMC videos on YouTube.

I am thinking pushing the wheels that far forward would just result in a poor alignment, even more stress on the CV joints, weird front CV shaft angles, and wheels not centered in the wheel arches.

I dunno......your question is a good one.

 

If you look at the new Marlin Crawler long travel system you'll notice that it moves the spindle forward by up to two inches.

https://www.marlincrawler.com/suspension/rclt/rclt-hd

 

https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/fitting-35’s-with-minimal-trimming.626274/

 

I guess the spindle would be a good way to do it

 

Isn't this to help with approach angles by moving the wheels forward? Looks like you need to modify steering and fenders also? I think this is slightly different than what the OP is after?

 

Hell of a lot of pages to sift through. Does someone mention anything about this?

 

Isn’t that going be like $4k though?

 

The op cuts up his LCA mounts and pushes them forward.

 

I'm fairly certain that this is a lot more than what your looking for. I only know enough to be dangerous. On my JK, you could get adjustable CA's that were all most infinitely adjustable. But that was the nature of a solid axle vehicle. On our truck, the wheels don't move much fore / aft when lifted. And the way that the suspension is designed, it just doesn't lend itself to being adjusted like a solid axle vehicle. .

 

You need a good alignment shop, aftermarket UCA, and push the caster forward. But at some point depending on tire size, wheel size, backspacing, etc, you’ll probably still need a CMC. Especially if you wheel the thing.

 

Shit I wish. No price released but I'm guessing easily $10k.

 

I would hate to possibly sacrifice drivability?

 

Idk man I could be wrong but I doubt it would be 10k..just for the LCA? Might as well go SAS.

 

I see. I’ll have to look for that. Steering rack remains in place?

 

Yea but SAS is so 2000’s