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Originally Posted by mcrews
Please show PROOF of someone here suffering premature wheel bearing wear.
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Back some time around 2008 an official .mil email was circulated that had a semi float axle on a pickup snap off due to over sized tires. No specifics were given to the year of the ranger and exact tire size.
It was clearly an early to mid 2000s ford ranger on at least 32 or 33 inch tires that also appeared to be on incorrectly back spaced rims (tires stuck out a lot).
I forwarded that to my mechanical engineer and he said that putting over sized wheels on with incorrect backspacing puts a "funny moment" on the bearing/axles and increases load substantially.
So if you create the worse case scenario perfect storm things will break.
I went from 235/75R15 to 31x10.50R15 on my suburban in 2008 and it still has the same front wheel bearings that it had when I got it.
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