I bought a set of 35x12.50 tires and Fuel Beast wheels for my 68 Bronco, but there's not enough offset (they're 17x9, -12 offset). They rub the radius arms when I cut the wheel hard either way.
I really like the looks and feel of the 17's and want to stick with them, but I need another wheel option. Definitely want to stick with a black finish. Anyone have any great suggestions?
I run the Hutchinson Rock Monster 17x9. The backspacing is 4.63 and they stick in where they are supposed to. Radius arm "rubbing" is corrected by the use of Jim Cole's Cage radius arms. (you call them Duff Arms)
A also have a set of Raceline Avengers in 17x9 with -19mm offset. But running 40x13.50x17 is still a problem. I have to run 2 inch thick wheel adapters (not spacers...) The Racelines and Hutchinsons are lug centric. The biggest problem with running 2 inch wheel adapters on the front is that you have to do something to the rear...or else it looks horrid.
Beware of the nomenclature. Wheel spacers are generally considered to be things that sandwich between the wheel and hub. Like a giant washer. Wheel adapters are generally considered to be things that bolt on to the hub, and another set of lugs are used to bolt the wheel to the adapter. Properly engineered wheel adapters are very robust and are OEM equipment on GM 1 ton DRW front hubs since 1988.
In your case, you are "adapting" from 5x5.5 to the same pattern 5x5.5. So not really adapting at all, but that's the lingo. This is because of all the bad experience with using the name "spacers" in the past. (as Shimmy above points out...)
I know what spacers are....i was talking about the knuckle stops.
