Inside rim lip hitting PB control arms
 

I put brand new porterbuilt upper and lower control arms on my 85 last weekend. I’m having a problem with the inside lip of my rims hitting the control arms when I turn sharp. There are no steer stops so I’m not sure what I’m supposed to do about this. Any suggestions?

I have contacted PB but haven’t heard back from them.

Sorry the control arms are filthy but it’s been raining here.

Re: Inside rim lip hitting PB control arms
 

What rims do you have, I'm sure it has mostly to do with back spacing,

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I figured that. 17” eagle alloy. I can’t remember the off set though. I bought them 9 years ago.

Re: Inside rim lip hitting PB control arms
 

My cragars were going to hit the knuckle on the drop spindles I got from mcgaughy. I ordered a .25" spacer to fix the problem. There's a picture that's relatively recent on my build thread of it.

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Small wheel spacer, ftw. At least to get you by.

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Yea I believe I’ll try the spacers. I’ll make some kind of spacer this weekend to see what size I’ll need to go with.

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We used washers and put the wheels on with 2 bolts until it cleared, measured the stack of washers and went to look for a spacer about that size.

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Thats what we are going to do today. I liked look through you build thread. Looks like y’all took your time and did it right. That was my problem when I first built this truck is I got in a hurry and didn’t do it the way I should have from the get go. Now 8 years later I’m changing a lot of stuff.

Re: Inside rim lip hitting PB control arms
 

I finally got in touch with Porterbuilt and found out I have the wrong lower control arms for my set up. They are sending me the correct ones so that should take care of my problem, I hope.