Lotrat's Budget Baja Build

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david58 wrote:what does ET 34 MM vs the ET 46MM mean
Its the silly German way of measuring offset from the center.

"EinpressTiefe" or "ET" Value

The distance between the rim's center line and its
mounting surface.
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Lotrat wrote:
david58 wrote:what does ET 34 MM vs the ET 46MM mean
Its the silly German way of measuring offset from the center.

"EinpressTiefe" or "ET" Value

The distance between the rim's center line and its
mounting surface.
Now see why I was pulling up your thread no one else on the entire STF would know that. :lol:
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The Marathon wheels suck up front. I had to flatten the pan lip and put longer steering stops in to stop the tires from rubbing. Swing wide baby, swing wide... They are fine off road. I just got sick of looking for another pair of Jackman's for the front and they were free...
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Lotrat wrote:The Marathon wheels suck up front. I had to flatten the pan lip and put longer steering stops in to stop the tires from rubbing. Swing wide baby, swing wide... They are fine off road. I just got sick of looking for another pair of Jackman's for the front and they were free...
Would that statement be true if they were on a stock bug with stock suspension and tire sizes?
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david58 wrote:
Lotrat wrote:The Marathon wheels suck up front. I had to flatten the pan lip and put longer steering stops in to stop the tires from rubbing. Swing wide baby, swing wide... They are fine off road. I just got sick of looking for another pair of Jackman's for the front and they were free...
Would that statement be true if they were on a stock bug with stock suspension and tire sizes?
I would say no. There were lots of stock wheels that used the same specs as the Marathon wheel. Check this sweet link out:
http://web.archive.org/web/200412260616 ... steel4.htm
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Lotrat wrote:snippage....
Check this sweet link out:
http://web.archive.org/web/200412260616 ... steel4.htm
WHOA! FYI there's a 5 lug page too!
http://web.archive.org/web/200412260605 ... steel5.htm
Cross-threaded is tighter than Lock-tite
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ntsqd wrote:
Lotrat wrote:snippage....
Check this sweet link out:
http://web.archive.org/web/200412260616 ... steel4.htm
WHOA! FYI there's a 5 lug page too!
http://web.archive.org/web/200412260605 ... steel5.htm
Ok I nominate this thread to be added to the build threads. :twisted:
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Lotrat wrote::roll:
The rolling eyeballs is a vintage herbie icon you gonna have to better than that. :lol:
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david58 wrote:
Lotrat wrote::roll:
The rolling eyeballs is a vintage herbie icon you gonna have to better than that. :lol:
No. :shock: is Herbie. :lol:
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Got me some new tires today. Well, they're new to me. My first set of re-treads!
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The re-treads look good bud!
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I've never seen retreads before, so I didn't know what to expect. The tread looks great. The sidewalls look terrible. They look like my wife has been trying to parallel park with them. The white lettering is really chewed, but that may be due to the re-tread process. They balanced ok, but they only guarantee them to be within 8oz. Time will tell how they perform.
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Biggest problem I knew of retreads was overloading which heated the tire up and then it would separate. Look good but what is important is how they ride and perform.
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Not real worried about my stock motor ripping them up. Ricko and Birddog have been running a set for awhile. Herbie just got a pair too. My BFGs were bald and I'm broke. Re-treads were a good solution.
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