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 MaD HoUsE
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| posted on October 26th, 2010 at 08:20 PM |
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tubbing?
is it called tubbing when you make extra room for your whees on full lock cos i just put some new ones on there and they look soo good but at full
lock it rubs and makes a hell of a racket. anythin i can do? anyone faced this b4?
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| posted on October 26th, 2010 at 08:32 PM |
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Tubbing is serious business and involves cutting out your inner wheel arches and making larger ones, hence cutting further into the body and sometimes
cutting the chassis and moving suspension components and so forth. You don't really want to get into that unless you really have to.
What size wheels and tyres are you running? And what offset? Where are they actually rubbing, inner or outer guard? There are much more subtle ways of
clearancing, such as rolling the guard lips and so forth.
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| posted on October 26th, 2010 at 10:04 PM |
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the wheels are pretty standard which surprised me the 15 by 5and a half with 165's on them not sure wher the rubbing happens but its only at very
full lock wich unfortunetly i need to do to get into wrk everyday. it has got slight camber and the offset has changed. it looks reall tough so i dnt
wanna loose the wheels
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| posted on October 26th, 2010 at 10:27 PM |
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the wheels are pretty standard which surprised me the 15 by 5and a half with 165's on them not sure wher the rubbing happens but its only at very
full lock wich unfortunetly i need to do to get into wrk everyday. it has got slight camber and the offset has changed. it looks reall tough so i dnt
wanna loose the wheels
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Type 3s have different offsets to Beetles so some aftermarket wheels will rub, but you should be fine with 165s on 5.5" rims. If you can, try and
work out where it is actually rubbing, look for wear/rub marks inside the wheel wells. If it is rubbing on the inside you could try some kind of
spacer, if they're rubbing on the outside (more likely I think) then you may be able to roll the lips.
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| posted on October 26th, 2010 at 10:32 PM |
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Sounds like you need to adjust the steering lock limit screw, limit the amount of turn before anything rubs on full lock. The adjustment goes out when
the tie rod ends get replaced but not quite set up properly.
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| posted on October 27th, 2010 at 07:44 AM |
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Is this the one you want to bag? If so you'll want to tub it when you fit bags.
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| posted on October 27th, 2010 at 07:32 PM |
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yeh but bags r down the trackas got a few options on the go and seeing which is most practicle
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| posted on October 30th, 2010 at 02:55 PM |
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To run bigger wheels and bigger tyres.
you may aswell Narrows your front beam
and get drop spindles all in the process of doing the airbags
you can cut in to you side fire wall but its pretty unsafe.
have a look at that thread url i sent in the other topic its got all the info on Narrows Front beams
or do you mean like this
This is in hilux
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