Date:         Tue, 22 Mar 2005 06:17:16 -0500
Reply-To:     Dennis Haynes <dhaynes@OPTONLINE.NET>
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From:         Dennis Haynes <dhaynes@OPTONLINE.NET>
Subject:      Re: Wheel Offsets
Comments: To: Brent Weide's Yahoo Account <brent_weide@YAHOO.COM>
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Wow, What an unsafe combination. Most tires in that size will have only
an 86 or 89 load index rating. The 86 is only rated at 1279 pounds. Take
off 10% and that leaves 1,151. You really need to get to a 96 or higher
LI. Probably, the largest concern is what will happen if you hit a pot
hole or something. There is not enough air cushion in that combination
to handle any impacts.

Dennis

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf
Of Brent Weide's Yahoo Account
Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2005 2:44 AM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Wheel Offsets

Joe:

I installed a set of Ronal R28's (16X7.5 w/ 35mm offset) on my 90.  Am
running 205X55X16 tires.  Purchased 10mm hubcentric spacers for all four
wheels from Ronal as well.  I did not have clearance problems with my
rears at all but installed spacers just to be even all the way around.
Without spacers I had a conflict with the control arm on the fronts.
Have a picture of this spot posted on my website (see link below).  Go
to suspension, wheels & tires.  I've also got an excel spreadsheet out
there that allows you to enter the desired tire size and will show you
the rolling diameter difference from stock for that tire.

With the spacers, make sure that you still have at least 8 threads of
purchase with your lugs.  I had to go with longer bolts in front and
longer studs in rear.  Empi was the manufacturer of the studs.

I remember having to be careful about the front wheels and the need for
a larger than normal center bore, something like 60mm to accomodate the
large vanagon front hub.  Ben T has excellent information posted on his
site re this topic.

Brent