Calgary Jeep Association

4x4 Related Groups => Tech Talk => Topic started by: gcam on November 08, 2007, 01:32:42 PM

Title: Rim backspacing
Post by: gcam on November 08, 2007, 01:32:42 PM

Do all Jeep factory rims have the same backspacing? If I were to swap on a set of Rubicon rims to my XJ, would I gain a little wider stance? thanks

Geoff

Title: Re: Rim backspacing
Post by: BlackYJ on November 08, 2007, 02:03:24 PM

Quote from: "gcam"

Do all Jeep factory rims have the same backspacing? If I were to swap on a set of Rubicon rims to my XJ, would I gain a little wider stance? thanks

Geoff

Backspacing and stance is dependent on rim width.  I believe most Jeeps rims were around the same BS but there are a mix of 7" and 8" wide rims.  Now if you are swapping to a rubi rim (16x8) from one of the stock XJ rims (probably 15x7), you might gain a little in stance width

Title: Rim backspacing
Post by: Dragonmaster on November 08, 2007, 04:08:51 PM

Stock BS is 4.5" I believe the rubi's are 4" BS.  And as stated the width of the rim will come into play also.

Title: Rim backspacing
Post by: dlarrivee on November 08, 2007, 06:37:46 PM

Quote from: "Dragonmaster"

Stock BS is 4.5" I believe the rubi's are 4" BS.  And as stated the width of the rim will come into play also.

More like 5.25" on my XJ.

Title: Rim backspacing
Post by: 04_RME on November 08, 2007, 06:53:23 PM

The rubicon rims have 5" backspacing, and most tj's had 5.5" backspacing, not sure what the cherokees had for b/s