- When it comes down to your safety and the safety of others out on the road, quality products over the
cost should win every time. Especially when it comes to
keeping your wheels and tires securely fastened to your
Rig at 70 miles an hour down the freeway, I would
have said 80 miles an hour, but we all know that most
your Rigs can't go that fast. Hey, what's up guys, Josh from TrailBuilt, and there is some
misinformation about spacers. So before you go out and purchase a set of the
cheapest spacers you can find, make sure you check out this
video first as who knows, might just save your life. Also guys, we have an awesome
video schedule coming up with some pretty cool shit that you guys are definitely
gonna wanna check out. So before we go any further, press on that little subscribe button. There you go. Just like that. See how easy that was? Plus now, you guys get to
hold on to the ride with us. Let's go. Running spacers is sometimes a necessity, and for several good reasons. Wheel entire fitment is
one of the biggest reasons. Let's say you jump on our
website at trailbuiltoffroad.com, and pick yourselves up a
new set of larger tires and package them with a set of wheels for your Jeep or Toyota, and need to push the tires outwards a bit to help keep the tire from rubbing on the suspension
components when flexing out or on a Toyota to keep
the tires from rubbing on the control arms or inner fenders when turning full lock to lock. Whichever the case may be, if the wheels that you wanna purchase don't come in a high
enough negative offset or a low enough backspacing, to push that wheel and
tire out far enough, you probably need to buy
a set of our BORA spacers to get that fitment just right. On the other hand, you also have to be careful
when putting spacers on when you might not even need them. Let's say for example you have a Chevy, with the square wheel wells and you go to run spacers, there's a very good chance that if you're also running
larger than stock tires, that your tires are
gonna rub on the fenders, in which case, you'll probably have to
do the California tuck or whatever it's called nowadays, where you trim out the areas
that the tire contacts. If you're unsure about whether you need
to run spacers or not, we have two awesome resources to find out. Number one is, to check out
our fitment gallery page where you'll be able to
search by make and model, vehicle suspension lift
size and tire size, and when you find that
exact setup that you want, you'll be able to check
into the description if there's any rubbing,
how much rubbing there is, and what size will offset or spacer, you'll need to run to keep your tires from smashing into your fenders,
suspension or wheel wells, especially when flexing out. Now if you already have built your Rig, make sure and add it
to our fitment gallery with a detailed description and a bunch of high quality pics. Not only do you get
the show off your build but if you have a detailed description plus a bunch of high
quality pictures of it, especially on the wheel
and tire fitment stuff then we'll also feature your build on our Instagram and Facebook channels. And by adding your rig
to our fitment gallery, you're also helping out others who are looking to do something
similar with their build, or whether they need
to run spacers or not, or even help figure out what offset or backspacing is needed. And the second option, if you have already combed
through our gallery, and you're still unsure about whether you need
to run spacers or not, then our awesome customer service team will be able to get you
the information you need and we'll have their information posted in the description below. Another thing to keep in mind
when running spacers is that, because you're pushing the
wheel and tires out further from the suspension, you're gonna have what's
called scrub radius. What does that mean exactly? Well, your factory suspension
and steering components were specifically engineered to perform in a certain way to
maximize their effectiveness, reduce tire wear, help with ride quality and reduce stress on the functional and structural components
like wheel bearings, ball joints, bushings, tie rod ends, shocks, struts, coil overs, and the list goes on and on. Once you start modifying your Rig, you start changing the geometry of your steering and suspension and where the forces from the road travel up through all of
those components differently from how it was originally engineered, causing things like increased tire wear, especially when turning, you start to feel more
of the bumps in the road, or out on the trail and they get amplified through the steering wheel, plus speed up the wear on those things like the wheel bearings and ball joints because of the added stress
to all of those components. Now that was just the
really short explanation of scrub radius, and there is definitely a whole lot more of engineering science
behind your steering and suspension geometry. So if you guys want us to do
a whole video on scrub radius, we certainly can, just make sure and let us
know in the comments below. So knowing a bit more
about whether spacers are right for your application or not, why do we sell the BORA brand spacers? Because we care about your safety. There are other less
expensive brands out there especially on some of the
bigger online retail stores, but then you're taking the risk of having something
potentially catastrophic and deadly happening. With BORA spacers, they use a high grade, high strength, T6 6061 aluminum alloy. The 6061 aluminum is a lot more dense, corrosion resistant and stronger, plus lighter than any other
steel or aluminum counterpart on the market, and the T6 means that
it is also heat treated which will prevent warping in the aluminum and heat treating also add strength to the aluminum alloy, and as you can see they are anodized for the protection from the elements. Another reason for BORA spacers is that, they are what is referred
to as hub centric, which means that this center bore is designed and engineered
to fit precisely over the hub bore of your axle to prevent it from wanting to shift under extreme duress situations, like jumping your Rig over sand dunes or carrying heavy loads for example. BORA also uses these
high strength wheel studs that are precision machined out of a high density high strength steel and the thread count and pitch is matched to your
brand and model vehicle, plus every BORA spacer
comes with the lug nuts, believe it or not, some don't. Now in most cases, you'll be able to bolt on the spacers, torque them to the hub
with the torque specs listed in the BORA instructions, and then torque the wheel
lugs to the listed specs in the BORA instructions and be good to go with your new spacers. But in some cases, the hub studs may be longer
than the thickness of the spacer and the wheel will contact
the tips of the studs and you won't be able to see or mount your wheel completely flat to the spacer mounting surface. If that's the case, just grab your grinder and
remove the tips of the studs until the wheel can sit perfectly flat on the mounting surface of the spacer. Once you have all of your lugs torqued, go drive around for
about 500 miles come back and then make sure to re
torque just the wheel lug nuts to the listed 500 mile re torque specs. After that you won't need to
re torque your spacer lugs until you get to your first tire rotation. At that point, just make
sure all of the spacer lugs are still torque to spec
and you're good to go. Other than that guys, if you can't find a wheel
with enough negative offset and have to run BORA spacers that you can find on our
website trailbuiltoffroad.com, then hopefully this video
has helped, shed some light on why you'd want to run
quality name brand spacers and not cheap out when it
comes to buying a set of them, and if you guys are currently
running any spacers, let us know how you guys like them or if you don't like them, or even if you guys have any
questions on these spacers just let us know in the comments below. Also guys make sure to
thumbs up to like the video, hit that subscribe button and the little bell next to
it to get the notifications, and as always, we appreciate
all of you for watching. I'm Josh TrailBuilt, and we'll see you guys back again shortly. (electronic music)
