Kranzel's wheel spacer

[Mikeyboy]

Hi- I'm trying to find some wheels spacers for my RC10 with Dynotech rear arms. I have th b4 spacers but would like a little more. I can't find Kranzel's wheel spacers on their website. I was looking on the Kranzels hobbies page. Does anyone know where I can get some spacers that will bring the rear wheels out enough to use the outer shock mount?

[scr8p]

you could get wheel spacers from dynotech, custom works, and some others i can't think of right now. but, i don't hink you'll be able to use the outer shock mount hole. you'd have to add so many spacers, the axles wouldn't be long enough to get a nut on it.

[Mikeyboy]

So a wheel spacer won't get me there huh? Scr8p, I noticed that on the parts list for your car you listed the B4 spacers and the Kranzel's spacers. Did you use them both together or did you try one then the other separately? I would still like to get the rear end a bit wider.

[Charlie don't surf]

The max spacer any DO car can use is .250, after that like Scr8p said, you run out of threads- but what are you trying to do? Pic on current spacing? If you are doing what I think you are, the Losi cvd outer axel will prob fix your issue

[Mikeyboy]

I guess what I'm ultimately trying to do is angle my rear shocks in more. I'm using a 10T rear tower. Maybe I will just drill some new holes in the shock tower to give the shocks a little more angle. I'll try to get some pics up soon.

[Charlie don't surf]

You can use a Rc10gt rear shock "thingie" that moves the mount upward, or a t3 one, to give you enough clearance

[scr8p]

Scr8p, I noticed that on the parts list for your car you listed the B4 spacers and the Kranzel's spacers. Did you use them both together or did you try one then the other separately? I would still like to get the rear end a bit wider.

i used both. the rear was too narrow (imo) without adding the kranzels spacers. plus, it gave me a little more clearance for the arm (by the outer shock mount), and the losi 2038 hub carrier so that i didn't have to trim it.

i used a 10t shock tower also (because i used an rpm 10t bulkhead), but i didn't like how vertical the rear shocks were. so i cut it down to buggy height, and drilled new holes. you really only need that tower if your trying to slam the body down.

[scr8p]

here's a pic. you can see the b4 axle spacer against the hub, then the wheel spacer on the outside.

[Mikeyboy]

Thanks Scr8p. So you used both spacers. I thought by doing this I could match the front and rear width and maybe have room to mount the shocks on that outer arm hole, but I guess there still won't be enough room. Still waiting on getting my pictures up.

[Mikeyboy]

Here's some pics of what I've been doing. I wanted to angle in the rear shocks more so I tried drilling some new holes. I placed a buggy rear tower over the truck rear tower as a template and drilled some new holes. This gave the shocks more angle but now the suspension bottomed out just before the chassis touched ground.

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[soniccj5]

Maybe a shorter shaft in the shock would help.

Ed

[Mikeyboy]

I tried a 1.02 shaft. It still bottomed out. I think a shorter shock body might help. The spring perch hits the bottom of the shock body.

[scr8p]

use the stock associated rod ends on the bottom of the shocks. the one you have on them are raising the spring cup too high which is causing it to bottom out too soon. if it still bottoms out, maybe your shock bodies are 1.39's instead of 1.32's?

[strangersinspace]

Anybody have an actual link where one could buy these wheel spacers?

[soniccj5]

I am using custom works .125.

http://www3.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin/wti0001p?&I=LXNTA0&P=ML


I needed to file down the nut after adding the wheel spacer.

ED