- Hey guys, Shawn again, Custom Offsets,
Custom Offsets TV on the YouTube.
Got another episode of Shit I Never Knew,
this is gonna be episode 12, and it is
Rollin...
Til...
The
Wheels
Fall Off.
So you've probably got tagged, or have been tagging people
or have been sharing pictures all over the 'gram
and Facebook of guys driving around
with a wheel that fell off.
One of our guys recently had his wheel fall off
at 60 miles an hour and has still not find his wheel
and tire cause it's in a swamp somewhere in Georgia.
So what we did, we did a thorough investigation
to try to figure out why this is happening.
So the first reason it's happening is because people go out,
John will you go grab me the eBay spacer?
They go out and they buy cheap spacers,
and I'll show you what that looks like in a second.
So number one reason that your wheels are falling off
is cheap spacers.
The way to identify a cheap spacer is, number one,
it does not have a hub.
Can you get me also a good BORA spacer?
Yeah, I know. This is intense.
So I'll show you the two.
So one is that it doesn't have a hub-centric ring.
Another one is that they don't list the grade of aluminum.
A third one is that they don't list
the grade of the studs.
Thank you, sir.
So if you look at these things side by side,
you're gonna see the number one,
this is the hub-centric ring.
So this cheap spacer does not have that ring.
So what it's gonna do is two things.
When you go to install the wheel,
the wheel won't have anything
to center on, so it's just going to land,
you know, roughly on the studs.
This helps center that.
The other thing is, it takes some of the weight
off of the studs and puts it on the center of that spacer.
So your truck has a hub that that wheel sits on.
When you put the cheap spacer on there,
you eliminate that centering point and that place to sit.
And this is what an eBay spacer looks like
at 35 miles an hour, when your wheel falls off.
The other thing is, we only use BORA spacers,
and the reason we do that is because it's aluminum
that's aircraft-grade aluminum and you can look up
on the website exactly what it is, I don't get into details.
And then the studs are a 10.1 steel stud.
So the grade of the steel in the studs
is significantly higher, so that your wheels don't fall off.
So that is one way to make sure
that your wheels don't fall off.
There's another way that we discovered with this one,
because we knew he was running BORA spacers,
and it was the first time we have ever seen a BORA fall off,
so we knew something was wrong.
And what we found is, there's a little catch
that he missed when it comes to stud length.
So we will get people that will order
an inch and a half spacer, and they want
to put it on their Chevy, and what happens is,
this one's a 2 inch.
But what happens if you have an inch and a half
is that stud...
on a Chevy, is...
About an inch and...
It's 1/16" short,
an 1/8" short of 1.75".
So it's over an inch and a half.
So what happens is, that stud sticks through the spacer.
So when you go to put your wheel on,
your wheel smacks right into that stud.
You don't realize it, and you go
and start tightening everything.
So picture that.
The stud's sticking through there,
you go to start tightening everything,
and you're tightening these studs now,
where they used to be, and it hangs up because
you hit those studs, the back of the wheel does,
before it gets tight.
So now you're driving around, you think it's tight,
it torqued right down, but there's a gap
between the wheel and that spacer.
So now you just drive around until things start
to loosen up, and then your wheel falls off
and you become Instagram famous.
So.
Here's the trick.
This is a 2" spacer, a BORA spacer that was on a Super Duty.
We always kind of said, you know,
Chevys are under an inch and 3/4,
so you can run a 1.75" spacer, no problem.
Some of the Fords and stuff are under 1.5",
so you don't have to trim the ends off the studs
and you can run like a 1.5 on some of those.
Super Duties, for certain years, they started
making the studs just over 2".
So just that nipple sticks out and it smacks
right into the back of the wheel.
So what happened was, he thought this was on there,
thought it was tight, but it just had that paper-thin
spacing between the spacer and the wheel.
And you can see, the paint's not even worn on the spacer,
because it was only touching on the outside edges
when he tightened it down.
And then it just vibrated itself loose,
sheared off the hub-centric ring, and there goes the wheel,
heading down the highway, and you're following it,
not quite as fast.
So the moral of that story is, there are Super Duties
out there that just have a touch too much for a 2" spacer.
He should have went through and took a grinder
and took that nipple off every one of these studs.
The best thing you can do, the only way you can make sure
you ain't gonna roll until your wheels fall off,
is when you go to install them, measure those studs
and make damn sure that the length of that stud is shorter
than the thickness of your space of your adapter.
So that's how you know that you have the adapter
sticking out further than the stud itself.
And you can bolt it up, torque down,
and you know it's touching.
So I hope that helped.
This was a short one, because we are really sick
of seeing people's wheels fall off.
The moral of the story is, if you buy a cheap spacer,
it's not if, it's when, that the wheel's gonna fall off.
And then if you buy the correct spacer,
you've gotta measure that stud length,
and sometimes, because they're custom made,
you should take the wheel off and measure this
before you order, cause if you've got a Chevy 1500,
a 1.5 means you have to cut every one of these studs
in order to get it to fit without sticking out.
If you've got a Chevy 2500, most of them have to be cut
to get a 1.75" on it, cause the 2500 has longer studs.
So it's best to just measure them up,
and then go from there.
- [Jonny] And it won't help rubbing in front,
by adding spacers.
- Yeah, we won't even go there today.
Yeah, you can't just keep adding spacers
and think it won't rub up front.
It rubs more when you add spacer up front, so.
That helps you out with how to keep your wheels
from falling off.
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