- Have you ever gone zero to 100
on a project real quick-like?
What I mean by that is you start
by telling yourself on Sunday morning
that you're gonna rearrange the shelf in the garage
to clean up a little bit so you've got some room,
and by noon, you've got a whole new shelving unit built,
your truck is parked in the driveway
to make room for the new air compressor you had to have,
and you're in the process of installing it,
and you haven't even actually made
much room on the work bench,
which is what you set up to do in the first place?
- Can you calm down? - No.
- You're a little wound up.
- Yeah, I know, but I've been there.
It's zero to 100, bro, it's just the way it works.
In much the same way,
fitting larger and wider wheels and tires
on your truck can get to be a bit difficult,
and it's easy to go from zero to 100
and grab the Sawzall and just start hacking away at (beep),
but hold your horses there, Charlie.
What if I told you there's a few different ways
to fit bigger wheels and tires
without needing to grab your cutting tool choice,
and if you do decide to cut something,
there's a right way and a wrong way to do it?
I'm Dustin, @Dusti.Co on Instagram, and today's video's
all about how to make anything fit on your truck,
if that's what you're into.
And as we dive right into this one, if you're looking
for a new set of wheels and tires to put on your truck,
but maybe you don't wanna take a Sawzall to your fenders
like a middle-schooler with a razor blade
for the first time, then you're in luck.
We've got a gallery with nearly 100,000 trucks in it
with all sorts of wheels and tires and suspension setups
that'll show you what actually fits your trucks
without hacking the bumper part to make it fit.
There's also notes about any rubbing
or trimming that they may have experienced,
and better yet, if you find a set of wheels and tires
that you absolutely fall in love with and have to have,
you can pick that set up right from that webpage.
Be sure to stay tuned to the end of the video, by the way,
because we're actually gonna be going over
how to NorCal your truck and maybe some pointers
for doing it the right way
and then how to maybe not do it the right way.
When it comes to making big things fit in tight spaces,
we may know a thing or two.
First step, just spit on it.
On a serious note here,
when you build two or three trucks a week
for the last eight years, we can confidently say
that we've seen pretty much every fitment,
from a modest set of nine-wides on a 6" lift
all the way up to straight up slapping 14-wides
on a leveling kit, and Banker?
Banker's pretty much the man
when it comes to making things fit
that definitely shouldn't.
It's why we managed to stuff a 355/40
on a 14-wide in the square wheel wells of my Duramax.
It just happened, I just came out to the shop,
and Banker just (exclaims), and they were just there.
One of the first things to look at
if you're looking to add bigger wheels and tires is
a leveling kit.
While it's not going to make room
for a massive set of 14-wides by any means,
if you're looking to step up your tire size
on a narrower wheel,
then a leveling kit is a really solid option for you.
If you guys are like me and your wheel wells are square,
then adding a leveling kit should clear you a set of 33s
without too many issues.
Here's where life is unfair, though.
Super Duty guys, Cummins guys, they just have it easy.
A leveling kit on an Aluma Duty, for example,
is gonna clear a set of 10-wides and 35s
without touching the plastic or the metals at all.
Low key, I'm just a little bit jealous,
but that's just sometimes the way it goes.
From-the-factory trucks are gonna come
with a little bit of rake.
In other words, here, the back of the truck is gonna sit
an inch or two higher than the front of the truck.
This is so, that way,
when you put weight in the bed of the truck,
that the truck essentially sits level,
keeping your load evenly distributed
and ultimately keeping you on the pavement
so you don't spin out of control.
A leveling kit is gonna eliminate that rake.
It's gonna bring the front end of the truck up an inch
or two, which gives you some more room
for bigger wheels and tires to boot.
Best part about a leveling kit is
that they're relatively cheap
at just a few hundred bucks, and they're available
from pretty much all the big name manufacturers,
including Rough Country, BDS, and the likes like that.
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On the flip side of that,
and for those of you who maybe wanna stay
with your stock wheels for a little bit yet and wanna go
with a bigger tire setup on your stock wheels, are spacers.
Now before you guys get mad
and angrily hammer away in the comments
about how we typically talk
and say that spacers don't actually help with clearance,
let me explain.
There are certain applications
that a spacer is gonna help give you some clearance
that you may need for those bigger tires.
Specifically here, we're talking
about when you look at stock wheel sizes.
They typically see that manufacturers are sending
trucks out the door on something like an eight
or an 8.5"-wide wheel.
While this works great for the factory 275/75/17s
that you can get on a brand new F-150,
a 33/12.5, for example, is gonna give you some trouble
if you try to put that on your stock wheels.
Usually here, the issue is that,
because of the high positive offset of the factory wheels,
these wider tires are gonna actually rub
on the inside of the tire on things like your control arms
or your crash bar, stuff like that.
This is where a spacer, it's really going to shine.
It's gonna help you out here
because that spacer is gonna put space,
or put distance, between the hub and the wheel,
much like a college girlfriend
who maybe just needs to find herself.
This additional space pushes the wheel outward
and gives you some clearance at full lock
so that you're not rubbing
on the inside of the tire, specifically again,
on those suspension components of your truck,
but let's say that you wanna get serious.
You want 14-wides on your Silverado with a 4" lift kit,
not that anyone would ever wanna do that,
but how do you make it fit?
Grab your painter's tape, bust out your hammer, bud,
because we're going NorCalling.
The term NorCal comes from,
you probably guessed it, Northern California,
and really started to gain popularity
in the mid- to late 2000s.
A NorCal mod, or NorCal for short,
as many of us are gonna call it, is the process
of trimming back the inner fender well on the backside
of the wheel well to gain additional clearance
for a set of bigger wheels and tires on your truck.
Typically, this is gonna require some sort of cutting
and then folding metal back, probably with a hammer.
On a Chevy, for example, the first thing you're gonna do is
you're gonna wanna drop that fender liner out of the truck.
While you don't have to take it all the way out
of the wheel well, it does help to get it out of there,
as it's gonna give you the most room
to access the inside of that wheel well as possible.
From here, you're gonna wanna carefully cut
that pinch weld off, and then with a hammer,
you want to gently tap the metal to fold it in.
Once you're done, shoot a little underbody coating
over the top, and bam, you've got yourself a NorCal mod.
While the process sounds simple here,
it's actually quite in-depth,
and the best thing that you guys can do is take your time
when it comes to a NorCal, patience is a virtue.
That's what they've taught you in Bible study,
and it couldn't be more true when you're doing a NorCal,
because if you don't take your time,
it's gonna look like you went at it with a Sawzall
after a few too many Busch Lattes.
It gets gross, it gets ugly.
You cut things that aren't supposed to be cut.
You don't wanna do that.
Are you looking for a few more inches of clearance upfront?
A leveling kit may be that solid option for you.
It's bigger tires than your stock wheels
that you're looking for.
Don't forget to add a spacer so you don't rub on the inside,
and of course, if you're looking for a Big Boy 24x14 setup,
then a NorCal is probably in your future.
Above all of that, though, if you're looking
for a new setup, but you aren't sure
what's gonna fit, what's not gonna fit,
and how much trimming you're gonna have to do,
then you better check out the Custom Offsets gallery,
which you guys can find in the link below
or by going to customoffsets.com/gallery.
What's your biggest advice
for someone looking to run a bigger wheel and tire setup?
Drop a comment down below, and don't forget to subscribe
to the channel, if you haven't already.
With that, I'm Dustin with Custom Offsets.
We'll see you guys on the next one, peace.
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