Stupid Truck Mistakes - Buying New Wheels For My Ford F150
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ก.ย. 2024
- It was time for some upgrades on my F150 but it did not work out at all as planned, this is an embarrassing one for sure haha.
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It happens to the best of us. I'm sure you're not the first TH-camr to have issues, just the first one to actually admit it.
I purposely watch your videos just in hopes to hear your impressions of your viewers. Never gets old. Haha!!
They’re usually decently funny but this one made me lol
I watch to see him messing up;) and not understand life.
The facial expressions that come with it too😂😂 hilarious
@@JeepCherokeeful you don't have to be toxic bro. that's a choice
I would’ve done some grinding on the tie rod 🫣🤣 or used a small wheel spacer/adapter. Well I guess 18” wheel it is.
Thanks for this video. It shows some of the not so fun stuff that we go through to get what we really want. Like you said it was a learning experience however because of your video you may have helped someone to avoid making this same mistake. To me that's what this community is all about. Sharing and helping each other to grow. Because of this video you've just pushed this entire community one step forward. Thank you for that.
New wheel looks great. And the mistake is something like I would do. Lol. They are going to look great when you get the 18” setup on. Glad to see a tire with more sidewall on someone’s vehicle.
That was unfortunate. I'm surprised the tire shop didn't notice when they were mounting the wheels, that it was too tight to the caliper.
The caliper wasn’t the issue… did you watch the video? Lol
@@sheshellsseasells Busted! Just the first 15 min!
Since you are tired of road debris spraying all over your truck you’ll need to install fender flairs on your truck if you return to the same width of the new tires because you’ll end up in the same situation that you are currently in. Speaking from experience! I know you really don’t like fender flairs however neither one of us like stock width wheels and tires so I’ve always chosen the lesser of two evils and went with paint matched fender flairs and it always turned out looking good. I’m currently running the Ford F-450/550 factory fender flairs on an F-250 because I kind of like the looks of them. Good luck, always enjoy your videos.
A 100% better set-up, more useful and looks damn nice, unsprung weight per corner is HUGE even 1-2lbs per corner will help bigtime 5lbs per corner is amazing and you'll feel it.
The F-150 sounds INSANE 0:30
My Dad told me yrs ago "when you get too far away from stock your going to have problems" another great video on what not to do.
Your current wheels look so much better than the fuel wheels
Metro, I agree with you 💯% 😁👍🏻
Yup couldn’t agree more
Great video Mike, love the whole work in progress side of it, soooo much more interesting.. keep up the great work 👍
I use the duck ring tone on my iphone... the quacking at 2:00 sent me looking for my phone
Dude, that is such a bummer! Just so you know, your stock wheel and tire weighs 79 lbs. I checked before I replace the wheels on my F150.
Do you happen to know what the factory Raptor units weigh?
@@ethandearborn3760 97.2 lbs.
This man is a GOAT
Do a mod video lifting the Danger Ranger, to make those 17x9’s and 35’s fit!
Functional offset make more sense, I applaud you trying to make a change.
the main thing that i love it at 2:56 i have seen that part on repeat like 50times and cant stop laughing 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I have a 6” BDS on my 21 with the Fuel Coverts. 295/70/18 Mickey Thompsons Baja Boss tires. Everything fits and run flawless. I beat the hell outta them last winter in the corn field we hunt. Love your truck.
35×12.50r18 Mickey Thompson Baja Boss AT's would be a good change and is 3 peak mountain snowflake rated in 315/12.50 widths or narrower so maybe more traction on cold pavement.
Best way to go. I love my sticky Mickey Baja AT’s. No more spinning Grapplers for me.
Just use a tyre with a road tread and no rough offroad tread for more traction and performance.
Loved it. We have all been there. As they say….that’s life.
On the bright side, looks sick with 17s. Although they still looked like they stuck out a good bit
Bet those wheels would look good on my leveled 2020 f150 :)
I wonder if that tie rod end has enough thickness that you could just remove some material from it? Then move the weights over a bit. Those 17s would be nice.
Rotational mass is definitely something to consider. Toyo/ Nitto tires are very heavy for their sizes. That’s why I went with the BFG KO2’s they are very light for the size. I’m have 37’s and they were considerably lighter. if I remember right there were like 5 or more pounds lighter per tire. Also you can save a lot of weight on the wheels. Methods/ ICON wheels are a good option.
Finally! I love the more tire look. I have always gone 17s. Truck looks bad ass! Also the issue with the caliper can be avoided by buying a wheel that's designed to fit the f150s calipers. The icon compression and rebound is designed for that. NVM I should have watched farther.. tie rod hitting the inside... Damn that really sucks Mike..
Installing E rated tires, or even D rated, kills performance on F150s. MPGs go down the drain. The stiffer higher rated tires (D and E) ruins the ride. I learned this the hard way as well. Unsprung weight such as wheels and tires also may cause premature wear to the suspension. It would have been nice to keep the 17s because that would have allowed you to get the ONLY 4 ply 35” tire which is the BFG made exclusively for the Raptor.
I experienced a similar problem a long time ago. I managed to solve it by getting tie rods that were thicker that installed from the the bottom up. We took the knuckles and machined it so that the the ball of the tie rod could install from the bottom up into the knuckle. It was a costly operation but it worked quite well
Hey Mike you can refinish the scratched wheel to fix the knuckle rub so you can get your money back minus the wheel finish cost. That might be your best solution so you get your money's worth. Shouldn't cost too much to sand out the inner wheel barrel and get it painted since you know many different shops.
Thats why i keep oem wheels with bigger tires no issues im running 275-65-20 on my stock height 2018 platinum
You are GROWING UP Mike!!!!
I guess you don't know that if you turn on the scale while you're standing on it, it will be at zero with you on it. Then when you grab the wheel, the weight on the scale is just the wheel. I believe it's called the tare.
that is such a bummer..... experienced this problem too with my Navara with 3inch suspension lift.
You know you're starving for content when you resort to a car wash montage lol
my son in law added an engine tune to his 2021 supercrew powerboost 3.5 hybrid and ran at dragstrip. 13 seconds 102 mph. Not bad for 6,000 lb truck
Looks like you have an extra set up for the Raptor!
Bummer dude! Those tires would work for anyone with the new Bronco that already run a 17" wheel. Should be very saleable
If you put a spacer, atleast .75 or 1.25 you should clear. I understand you don’t want to stick out as much but in that case just get some flares
Bummer loved the setup!
You took that way better than I would have.
Love that you are going in right direction on tire size !!! Going to be a good looking truck when you get those 18" on. This is my setup 18" mags 35" tires
Yep... I discovered the wheel weight phenomenon when I was checking the stock wheel assembly weights of the Jeep sahara vs. the rubi. I was expecting a huge diff between the 17's and 20's, but with tires, they were within a few pounds of each other. When we're talking about performance cars, a 17" setup and a 20" setup would have major differences, but not on a truck, where the tire has to be near bulletproof.
that's a weird one! I would have never thought you'd have this issue with a smaller wheel. A spacer may have helped
Looked 1000000x better with the new setup for the few minutes they were on. Looking forward to seeing the 18s.
Wow! Amazing, who would have thought? Weird is right!
Thank You for making these videos Mike. Your videos are not only fun but they are very educational and motivational for people like us when we come to do our truck build. Had you not gone through this problem then somebody else would’ve faced this issue. Thanks to this video I now know that you have to know the wheels size recommendations for a 4 inch BDS lift kit. Big thumbs up to you man 👍🏻
The new wheels are gonna spray the struck just the same though... Maybe its a good thing and you can go back to the drawing board.
That is the reason they come from the factory with a bigger wheels and different backspacing to clear the big rotors and calibers etc that are used nowadays.. love the videos man!
18s with 35x12.5 +20 offset would look great
That's almost exactly what I have. 18x9 +18 offset with 35x12.5 KO2's. I love it.
You're only human like the rest of us, man. LOVE the new wheels and tires, will look awesome once you get it sorted out.
I had something similar happen on my truck but mine cleared and was all good for a long time but it was very very tight clearance then the tie rod got some miles on it and started to wear and got a little loose (I'm guessing). Once that happened it scraped like yours did but it also destroyed the tie rod.
Damm what a bummer! That's sux!!
18s will still look killer though. Might weigh more as well too.
Looking forward to new setup. Keep pumping them out brother🤘
Great to hear you take the blame for the SNAFU though sorry to see it happen. Hope you can get 18s and tires quickly.
Yeah, you should give it up, it’s a young man’s game!
Wow that new setup is so much better than before. Shame there were issues.
Looks MUCH better with old wheels and tires. Sometimes looks out weighs what you can do with it. If that makes any sense.
So in the end you mounted the lighter wheels 😂
Mike just add a little spacer. It will push the wheel out and avoid the tire rod
Don't be embarrassed. I've made "boneheaded" mistakes countless times where I thought, why didn't I think about that! I'd buy your 17s and tires in a heartbeat if I still had my 2016 F150. Love how the new tires and rims look. Good choice.
Crap happens to everyone of us. Everyone is ok, and you can always buy stuff to get back to square1. :)
Honestly Mike I can't decide which wheels look better but I'm sure you will find something awesome. Cant wait
At least you owned your mistake and made a video about it. Props for that. I think this is one of those mistakes that a lot of us would have made given the circumstances.
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Have you checked out Anthem Offroad rims lately? They have an all black both polished and flat. I have the Intimidator but I went with a 17 x 9 x 0 on my 2005 Silverado and a 285/70/17 Nitto Terra Grappler. They have the tires, or usually do. Also have a whole new group of rim designs. Check them out. Might be some you like and could get quickly and that you'd like in an 18 from them. Beefy rotor/caliber setup and then the ball raises you up but I wouldn't think it would be THAT big of an issue.
You can try wheel spacers on 17s. And also can use this 17s on raptor
Extended studs and wheel spacers? Could that work? That would get you a few millimeters/inches of clearance
I know it’s not a great option but maybe you can put spacers in the front
Ah man 💩 happens!! Looked really good with new wheels too. Maybe even get some flares on it too so you don’t get all the crud thrown up onto your truck. Can’t wait to see you get the 18s on it.
Dude. Seriously? Tire and wheel guys don’t know that LT tires are much heavier than P tires? You don’t need 10 ply LT tires on a half ton truck. That’s where all the weight is. Look into it
Truck looks so much better with the old set up. In my opinion.
Bummer, but your truck will look great with 18s for sure.
I got a leveled 2013 F150 that would look sweet with those 17s! All I got is factory rims with a beefy tire right now. In Ohio. Wouldn't be hard to work out a deal. If you see this.
I say ditch the lift for a level, and use the 17s… will look nicer too
I build custom gaming computers as a hobby alongside my car. It happens even with the computers, sometimes a water cooling radiator doesn't fit, or custom cables are purchased that are not long enough. I have done the walk of shame back to the parts store more than once so I understand.
that's one of the reason I stop playing with aftermarket parts many many years ago
Larss70.. It was user error (as usual), NOT the aftermarket parts!
I see this is a year ago, but I couldn't find one MFG that makes a lift kit to work with 17's which defeats the purpose of of lifting the truck to put bigger tires on. More Tire/Less Wheel. Need to have these companies redesign the lifts to work with "Stock" 17's.
Definitely glad you are ditching the mall crawler look as I personally hate that look. Not a huge fan of the fuels though. I would go with Method wheels instead. Better designs in that sizing in my opinion.
Fuel Rage in red and black 20x9 +1mm would look great. Just a little poke. Have them.on my 2019 Black F150 and get compliments on them all the time.
remove the lift kit and run the 17s
He can’t remove the lift kit if you watch the video when he talked about the lift kit they had to do some cutting on the frame of the truck so you can’t take the lift kit off
Definitely liked the Thicker Tires. So, get 18” then with the thicker tires.
I am sure a lot of people has run into things like this with wheels and lifts. I bought some rims one time had to run spacer so the brake caliper would not hit. It was a long time ago my 2001 Tahoe both were 16 inches just design different
MIKE! I live in Honeybrook PA and can drive to pick up those rims/tires from you! I’ll buy either!
A tire shop must have a fitting test tool at least
Should have gone with Konig flow formed wheels (forged) they are super light. Get the Hypergrams, like B is For Build did on the Jumpacon
I live just North of you near Erie PA and and I have a 6" lift in 12 wides and the struggle is real ...constantly covered in dirt but I love the look.
Too bad they didn't fit... They looked great on the truck.👌🏻
Great to see a video where someone shows what can really happen, mistakes and all... love the video's Mike.
Man that sucks. Well you had the right idea, I completely agree with what you were going for. Never liked the offset
hahaha, no probs bud, failure in something is the key to success as long as you learn from it!
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Haven’t seen the wheels on the truck yet but I think u made a smart choice here for more reasons than you mentioned even
Wheel spacers will take care of the issue
Get something that tucks in further!
Put some highway tires on that thing. 20 ply tall skinny tires like they put on f250 diesels…
Just grind the tie rod down so it doesn't rub :)
Can you use those new wheels and tires on the new Raptor?
What a bummer so sorry you had to go through this man !
I swear that’s sounds like something that would of happened to me lol .
I have 18” flow formed Konig’s that weigh 18.7lbs per wheel
That sucks but good luck on the next set
Just parts of modding vehicles it happens glad your trying something different then the mall crawlers