Well crap, okay, thanks, that's the added info I needed.

Gonna stick with "metric 32's" I guess, I can't afford to throw any more money at this for the year, I'm already well past my annual play budget as it is.

So I'm assuming that with the 265's I shouldn't need wheel spacers or anything, fingers crossed...

As for the M/T, they might look cool on there, but with the bump of nearly $200 extra for all 4, just more money for no value added, especially for my use.

Appreciate the insight!

You may need to do an alignment with 'max caster' to move the wheel forward in the wheel well, but otherwise a 265/75-17 with a reasonable offset will clear just fine.

And an alignment isn't a mod - that comes out of the maintenance budget.

-Charlie

Got it, yeah, thanks, I was planning on an alignment anyway, with new tires, new LBJ's and a front end leveling kit, all freshly applied, it'd likely need it, but I'll add the max caster to the list of things to mention.

Oh, good call, too bad an alignment is amongst the cheapest of my recent expenditures, cause it always feels nice to find another category to put receipts in....

Shop got my tires off, the beads look super clean, hopefully Mavis will be okay with how they look, my return credit hinges on them not being torn up by installation.

Now, to figure out what's the best option in the size I need to stick with!

265/75/16 Cooper Discoverers going on, Sunday. Happily, the tire place was willing to trade these out for what I needed, so kudos to Mavis Tire, despite being huge and corporate, they dealt with this seamlessly, professionally, and with a degree of personal touch I'm unaccustomed to in these scenarios, so they've earned my respect.

Now for the weirdo tech question of the morning.

I just yesterday, got my one, 15" OEM alloy off eBay, that was supposed to be my spare tire wheel (my OEM spare wheel is rusted to hell and a 16") and receive one of the mostly dead 15" tires from this deal. A functional emergency spare tire, and nothing more.

Since the 15" will fit the rear, and I still have two, almost new 32/11.5/15's, is it a feasible thought to buy a 2" wheel spacer to keep in the truck (I'd check to confirm wheel fitment before making this decision and mounting the tire), and install for an emergency drive home, in a front flat situation?

Worth noting, I've never used a wheel spacer and have no idea if I can even install one in a flat on the side of the road/trail situation, so feel free to call me an idiot if need be!

Tire diameter seems close enough, (since it's not AWD), to work, but I'm not sure if having one front wheel kicked out further than the other, is somehow going to damage stuff over the course of hopefully never too long of a drive to a repair center.

Just trying to make the best of a dumb move on my part now!!

It would probably be cheaper to get a used 16 inch spare from another toyota 4Runner/Tacoma or 1st gen Sequoia/Tundra. I don't think wheel spacers are going to fix your fitment issue.

If you are really set on using the 15 inch spare wheel then you can always put it on the rear and then move the rear wheel to the front if you have a flat in the front.

Yeah, I hear you, and in my case, what I have, is way cheaper than spending more money, only to have MORE spare crap laying about that I now need to beg someone to buy off me. Especially as a spare situation.

I asked at my garage a few minutes ago, they felt it wouldn't be a problem, particularly given the short-ish time it would ever be in play.

But the front to rear swap, is genius, and I love it, thanks for seeing the obvious answer I was missing in a swamp of silly options.

Don't even need the spacer - remove a good rear tire, put on spare in rear, then swap out the front. This is the FACTORY procedure for '03-'07 WRXs with the rear clutch-type limited slip (though, small spare goes on front and factory side whee/tire goes on rear).

I got a single 16" 1st gen Tundra / late 1st gen Tacoma aluminum wheel for my spare when I did the Tundra brake swap and found a matching diameter used 16" tire (265/75-16 BFG KO) to my 17's (265/70-17 BFG KO2). That's about the largest you can fit under the rear. A true 32" might or might not fit underneath, depending on hitch setup and actual tire diameter.

-Charlie

Okay, so I tried to help myself without pestering everyone, and I've ended up screwing myself instead. Sigh.

As previously mentioned, just got a leveling kit in the front. Made the front end an inch plus higher than the rear, just reversing my problem.

All the spring leveling rear options are too tall, googled around and found a thread from a couple years ago, from this forum, where a Land Cruiser 80 series front spring spacer, which is available in 10 mm increments, fits perfectly in the coil rears of 3rd gen 'Runners.

GREAT! Ordered a 30 mm pair from Manfrelv, and my shop just called, no way, no how, not top fit, bottom fit, won't play nicely with the existing bottom out bumper/spacer. No idea why. Maybe the coils aren't OEM, and these spacers only fit OEM, I just don't know.

Is there a 1", ~30 mm, simple spacer to level the rear springs up an inch?

I need to get a set pronto, and have it overnighted to my shop so this can all get buttoned up, get my alignment done, etc.

This crap is SO frustrating....

Anyone need a set of brand new LC 80 series front spring spacers??

Thanks.

A little taller than I wanted, but according to the guy I spoke with, these will fit OEM coils, or the OME ones now in there.

Daystar KT09107BK 4Runner 1996-2002 Toyota 1.5" Rear Budget Boost | Jack-It

What's odd, is, if the OME shares the same fitment as OEM, why wouldn't the LC 80's work.

I may never know....