Installed properly, they are very safe. They are made well and hold up to rough driving.

 

Newbie question here. When you "retorque". Do you unbolt then torque it down again or just leave em on and check them with the torque wrench?

 

Has everyone been able to get the vehicle inspected with no problems with spacers on? They wouldn't do it here so I put them out of my mind. Already have a short list of other things I need to undo before I bring it in so was not looking to add to the list.

 

i didn't want to use my stock wheels and went to aftermarket.

I wish i would have gotten a stock set of moab's and spacers because the finish on my after market's has gone to shit even with maintainence due to our road salt in the winter..

Keep it simple and just add the spacers unless you don't live where it snows.

 

I have been using my spidertrax spacers for the past 33,000 miles with no issues. When I installed them I went by the directions supplied and used the lock-tite they provided and torqued to 90ft/lb.

Each time I rotate my tires I check the torque by setting my wrench to 85ft/lb (so that I don't break the locktite), and make sure all lugs are still secure. So far none of them have loosened up over time.

I would say that they are safe as long as you are smart about using and maintaining them.

 

Got it, but Isn't red loctite very hard to remove? I thought blue so you can still remove it later on? I got my spidertrax spacers used so I didnt have the loctite that spidertrax provides. So I used blue loctite, torqued to 90lbs, then retorqued after 50 miles as per the directions from spidertrax. 2k miles on em so far and no problems. Just want to make sure when it comes time to rotate my tires I retorque them the right way

 

Was thinking the same thing red loctite is the next thing to welding a thread

 

Mine have worked fine for 100,000kms so far. They were no big deal to remove either. Just used a long ratchet.

 

If he was asking about using them on an application where there was no torque applied to the wheel and there were 6" wheel studs, then I'd agree. Of course, 6 inch wheel studs are not very common, and for the vast majority of applications, non-bolting wheel spacers are dangerous. Using a sandwich spacer on the Jeep is a terrible idea as the stock wheel studs are less than 1.5" in length and all wheels provide torque. Plus, with the thin material having compression and rotational movement over time, especially with improperly cleaned wheels and axles and wheels that are centered properly with the nuts, you're asking for a lot of trouble.

Can sandwich spacers be used in 1% of applications? Maybe, but for the vast majority of applications that are asking for trouble.

 

I have a question about that.... I am going to assume you put the Red locktite on the threads when you initially install the spacers, but that stuff has a cure time after which it is supposed to dry really hard. How are you supposed to retorque the bolts when they have cured Locktite on them? Even if you were able to torque the bolts more, the Locktite has it's own specific breakaway torque rating, so wouldn't that extra torque after 100kms just break the bond of the Locktite anyways, defeating the purpose? Maybe this is just a dumb question, but just trying to understand how this would work. It just seems to me that the Locktite is designed for something that requires a permanent bond with no further movement, rather than something that needs to be retorqued.