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Originally Posted by Black798
I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say that at least 90% of the guys out there wheeling their 4runner don't need beadlocks. With 33 inch tires I feel like they're going to be a total waste of money for a few reasons.
1 33s hold beads really well, I routinely ran my 33s down to 8psi and never had a problem without beadlocks. They aren't that much bigger than stock tires and on a decent rimthey hold just fine
2 no tire shop will mount your tires if you have beadlocks, mostly because of liability and also because it's a major pain in the ass. Lots of bolts that need to be torqued multiple times, 5 hours to mount 4 tires is about the norm I've heard with beadlocks if you know what you're doing.
End of the day it's your money and your truck but I think the money could be spent better elsewhere. Those rims also have a high likelyhood to cause rubbing on your upper control arms. Stock Toyota rims are 4.5" backspacing where those are 4.75". It's only a quarter of an inch but when I ran 33s on stock rims they cleared the UCA by milimeters
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I have a local shop that will do them, I asked up front.
I have run so many different combinations of tire/wheels thru the calculator... sick of doing it. I had a free steel spare so I tried it with a 17x7.5 15 mm offset on a 285X70R17 MT TA KM3. that setup will rub UCA at full droop but is OK otherwise. according to the calc it's 11 mm closer than stock. this wheel is 4 mm closer than stock and when I added a 7 mm shim between the wheel mounting surface and the wheel it'self it was close but cleared at full droop. so yea it's a huge pain figuring out if everything will clear before burning the pile of cash.