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Posted by clueless [201.202.29.210] on Tuesday, May 29, 2012 at 12:25:06 :
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I hope so. However, New York is a large state and still could be close to 500 miles from where I live.
I ended up using a conventional inner wheel and a deep offset outer wheel, but still needed a 5/8" spacer to get tire sidewall clearance. This was with 9.00-16 tires. I assume using 7.50's no spacer would have been required. This also resulted in needing longer inner nuts.
Originally, I had purchased, through this forum, four offset wheels plus two factory- appearing bolt-on spacers of about 1" that allowed the inner wheel to clear the brake drum. Shipped in four packages, UPS lost the package containing one of the wheels and one of the spacers. The four packages were insured for $400, $100 each. After repeated efforts by both me and the seller stating that the lost package resulted in the the rest of parts being basically useless as all items were needed to complete the assembly, they still would pay me only for the one package and told me " just have the vendor send you another one"....How little they know! Word to the wise...If you have multiple items, pay the extra and have them palletized. At least if lost you'll get compensated for the entire purchase.
sorry you had so much trouble, you must have just gotten a factory single wheel that somebody moved out and not the factory outer dually, and therefore need to move the other out the same and then burn down the drum a tad
easiest and cheapest dually set up(unless you can find the elusive factory outer dually) is to move the centers out as far as they will go and weld in place and turn the od of the drum down a hair and use conventional dually lug nuts
before you weld in place just tak in place and mount to make sure everthing snuggs up not sure if you could move them too far out and therefore have to turn down the drum too much, as I recall about an eight of an inch can be turned of the drum and mine ended up with an inch between tires on 900 16 goodyears