Rubbing the Front

[olskool kid]

I take the back road home after work and I go about 65 mph in my 92 ranger. When i take a hard turn that my truck can take at 60 mph. It rub the front tire when u trun at high speed. Is there any coil springs that where work with a 3/4 drop and stop the rubbing? Would like to keep it with this lowering kit.....

 

[Hazmat Ranger]

I have a 3/4 DJM kit with dropped beams running stock springs and 9" wide front wheels running 245/45/17" tires. My tires do not rub but my rim hits the shock mount. What springs you running now?

 

[Insanejughead]

*The SUPER MOD has spoken!*


Edit: I read over this post a few times and I finally began to wonder... Do you have a sway bar? A good sway bar will keep your outside corner from dipping low and causing more of a rubbing issue.


Also, what size tire are you using?

 

[olskool kid]

Im running stock springs and stock sway bar. An the tire size Im running I dont know, in FL right now have to wait to I get back home in oregon.....

I know my wheels size it 15x7 with low pro-tires on them.

 

[slammedxonair]

Yea I would suggest checking the links on the sway bar, if they are good maybe upgrade the sway bar.

 

[olskool kid]

what sway bar upgrade ya'll say to get?

 

[olskool kid]

Insanejughead my tire size is 205/50R15......

 

[Insanejughead]

That's a tiny tire... I didn't rub at all when I had my 225/70/14s on my pickup while it was lowered.

I wonder if the offset of the wheels could be causing that rubbing to happen...

 

[Hazmat Ranger]

I would have to agree, sounds like the offset of the rim may be too shallow and allow too much wheel/tire on the inside. I am running those 245/45/17 on the front on a 9" wide rim. My tires do not rub, but rim does as I mentioned above.
Spacers may help if it does not move it out too far that the tire may hit the fender.

Good Luck.

 

[olskool kid]

I cant put any spacers on. I went out and look at the rim, it right under the fender lip. What back space shoud I look for in a rim or would a BII front sway bar help out?

 

[olskool kid]

That's a tiny tire...

i run a 135R15 on the front an 145R15 on the rear of my 1969 VW Bug an my rim is 15x4.5 that tiny......

 

[Insanejughead]

Rangers do best with a rim that has (I think) around 4" of backspacing. I no longer have my original ranger rims to measure. The rims I have on my ranger right now are 15x8" and have a shallow backspacing, which puts the tire out of the fender by about 1" to 1 1/4". I'm running 235/60/15 BFG Radial TA's on them too.


If my ranger was still lowered, those tires would get ate to hell by the fenders.


Check out LMCtruck.com for swaybars. They have some anti sway bars that are PLENTY big enough for your needs.

 

[olskool kid]

Can I get one off the front of a BII an the rear of a Ranger would that work out....I can get both with everything on them for $50......

 

[Insanejughead]

I personally don't know if the bronco II bar mounts up completely the same as the ranger one does. I would measure the diameter of the bronco bar and the ranger bar to see what the difference is first.

No need to get a bar that's the same size...


I apologize for not knowing anything more about this.

 

[olskool kid]

i will look into that befor getting the bar's.... Would it be a good thing to get new coil springs for the front and if so get OEM or performance part.........