Gonna switch 15" to 14" wheels on Ranger

[rslifkin]

Originally Posted By: TallPaul
Originally Posted By: Miller88
Friend of mine put 13'' trailer wheels on the front of his Cherokee ...
This cleared the calipers?


No way. Cherokee calipers should need 15s to clear, maybe certain 14s, but no way in [censored] 13s can clear those.

 

[TallPaul]

Originally Posted By: rslifkin
Originally Posted By: TallPaul
Originally Posted By: Miller88
Friend of mine put 13'' trailer wheels on the front of his Cherokee ...
This cleared the calipers?


No way. Cherokee calipers should need 15s to clear, maybe certain 14s, but no way in [censored] 13s can clear those.


Must have stripped the brakes off and only run rear brakes? Or maybe he put the electric trailer brakes on the front?

 

[SwampSurvivor]

The wheel was rubbing the caliper, but he was able to put all 5 lugnuts on

 

[TallPaul]

Does not sound like a good idea, besides a trailer tire is not exactly designed for the front end of a car. So it will over head until the caliper stops rubbing, but will it interfere with braking function if the caliper can't move laterally? What was the purpose, to have the rear end higher relative to the front?

 

[SwampSurvivor]

Originally Posted By: TallPaul
Does not sound like a good idea, besides a trailer tire is not exactly designed for the front end of a car. So it will over head until the caliper stops rubbing, but will it interfere with braking function if the caliper can't move laterally? What was the purpose, to have the rear end higher relative to the front?


He scrapped a trailer and wanted to see if the wheel would fit. It never left the jack with a trailer wheel on