Dirty_Jeeper
Adventurer
This is a concern that hopefully someone here can set aside for me. My 1997 XJ has 33 12.50 15's on her. The 8 by 15 alloy wheels, the second set, are pretty chewed up from kissing rocks. I want to go back to stock 7 by 15 steel XJ wheels for several reasons. My spare is currently mounted on one.
The concern is clearance tolerance between inner sidewall and rear leaf spring with the tires on the stock steel wheels. The alloys with their offset I have an inch and a half or two inches clearance from sidewall to leaf spring. When I mount the stock steel wheel with the 12.50 on the rear I have about half an inch of clearance between sidewall and rear leaf.
It stuffs well into my trimmed wells front and rear when flexed. Is my concern about the close fit to the leaf spring unwarranted?
The concern is clearance tolerance between inner sidewall and rear leaf spring with the tires on the stock steel wheels. The alloys with their offset I have an inch and a half or two inches clearance from sidewall to leaf spring. When I mount the stock steel wheel with the 12.50 on the rear I have about half an inch of clearance between sidewall and rear leaf.
It stuffs well into my trimmed wells front and rear when flexed. Is my concern about the close fit to the leaf spring unwarranted?