Hey, what's up guys?
Ryan here from ExtremeTerrain, and today I'm here with the Coyote 1.5-inch aluminum wheel
spacer kit, fitting your 2007 to 2018 Jeep Wrangler JK.
This is for those of you that want a quality spacer that is just gonna give you a little
bit of an offset.
Now, these are reasonably priced, you're gonna get all four spacers in this kit, and it's
coming in right around $130, which I think is pretty average and pretty good for the
kit.
Some of the other options are right around the same, but you're only gonna buy them in
pairs, and this one comes with all four.
Now, when running larger tires on the factory wheels you can have some rubbing issues, and
that's because of the offset.
Those factory wheels are designed to stay tight, and of course, accommodate that factory
size tire.
When you're turning, the added width of those aftermarket tires, of course, can rub on suspension
components, and that's something that we don't want.
Now, of course, there is always the option of going with an aftermarket wheel, but aftermarket
wheels are gonna cost a lot more, and if that is just not in your budget, or if you like
the way that your factory wheels look and you're just trying to throw some larger tires
on there, this is a very affordable fix, and it's a lot more cost-efficient than buying
new wheels, getting them mounted and balanced, so on and so forth.
Now these are going to space the wheels out one and a half inches, allowing you to run
these factory wheels with those larger, wider tires, and this is gonna ensure that you won't
rub.
These are going to widen your stance, so it's gonna give you a little bit more stability
when you're out there on the trails or if you're just driving on the highway.
Now you can space out aftermarket wheels as well.
If you have aftermarket wheels, you wanna space those out, give yourself an even wider
stance, a more aggressive appearance, and just add to the whole stability of it, that
is a possibility with those as well.
Now, one of the nice things that I like about these, these are hub-centric.
Now what that means is this inside is actually gonna sit on the end of the hub, that's gonna
take all that shear force off of the studs.
When you're bouncing around on the trails, when you're running those larger wheels and
tires, you add a lot of downforce to the studs, and that's something that you can shear those
right off.
However, with these, you're not really gonna have that issue because it's gonna be held
nice and tight and centered by the middle.
Now these are made from 6061-T6 aluminum, so that makes them very lightweight, very
corrosion resistant, and it makes them very strong as well.
These are coated in a black powder coating, and that's gonna add to the corrosion protection
of this whole system, it's also gonna make them blend into that black axle and just all
that factory paint.
Now the studs on these are made from 1045 heat-treated carbon steel.
So these are very strong studs, they're really gonna hold up under abuse, you're not gonna
deal with breakages, you're not gonna shear the studs off and have your wheel roll away
from you, that's the last thing that we want when you're in the off-road.
One thing you need to worry about when running spacers is going to be tire poke.
Some states are really strict on the tire poke.
And if you add these to a factory wheel or if you add them to an aftermarket wheel, your
tires just sticking out out from under the fender flares, that's something that's not
really legal in certain states, so you just wanna keep an eye on that and keep in mind
on that.
Another thing you wanna keep in mind when running wheel spacers is going to be the ball
joints.
You're sticking the wheel and tire out further, and that's causing a lot of stress on those
ball joints.
So if you have the factory ones, you're running a really large tire, you may wanna think about
heavy-duty aftermarket ball joints.
The last thing you wanna do, once again, is shear a ball joint off, wear those things
out really fast, and have that breakdown on the trail.
Now this is relatively easy to install.
If you can take your wheels and tires off then you can install these on, they bolt right
onto the hub.
So I am gonna give this a one out of three wrenches on the difficulty meter.
If you take your time, this should take you only about an hour to get all these installed.
So with all that being said, let's hop into our install.
Tools we used for this install: torque wrench, pry bar, 1/2-inch drive impact, 19-millimeter
socket, Phillips-head screwdriver.
Now this is something that you can do in your driveway at home.
All I did was just jack up one side of the axle, pulled the wheel and tire off, and then
we're gonna bolt these things on.
So these are gonna come with brand new lug nuts.
And the way this is gonna work, you're just gonna slide it right over top of that, then
we're gonna take those brand new lug nuts that they gave us and we're gonna install
them in here, we'll torque them down to factory specs, and then all we have to do after that
is just throw our wheel entire back on.
So let's get to it.
So we get all these nuts started by hand, that way we don't cross thread anything.
You don't need to use Loctite on them, you torque them to the proper specs shouldn't
have any issue with these things coming loose.
After we get them all started, we'll take a 19-millimeter socket, we're just gonna run
them in.
Now torque specs are gonna vary.
Torque specs in the factory manual for factory specs they're gonna be anywhere from 85 foot-pounds
to 125 foot-pounds, so you just wanna look up what yours are for your particular model.
I'm gonna torque these to 110 foot-pounds.
Now, of course, this thing is gonna spin when we go to tighten this up and torque it down.
So there's a couple ways that you can do this, you can take a pry bar and stick it in between
two of these studs, sit it on the ground or have someone hold it while you torque it,
or, what I'm gonna do is just take a screwdriver, I'm gonna put it right in here inside of the
rotor, and that way when this goes to spin it's just gonna stop it from spinning.
All right.
So what you wanna do is just go in a star pattern, just like your wheels.
Once you get the spacers on, they're torqued down, you wanna throw your wheels and tires
back on, torque them back down to factory specs, and then you're good to go.
So that is gonna wrap up my review and install.
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