Single wheeled truck running Dual wheels and tires for pulling

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My big question is how are guys doing this? I am guessing with spacers and longer studs, but I see some with single spaced wheels on the outside. Are guys just putting a dually wheel and tire on the inside and their regular wheel on the outside with a spacer? This is something I have been thinking about doing for pulling only and then go back to single wheel for daily driving. Pics would be helpful. Thanks
 
I know in my personal experience, on a 2nd gen single wheel with drum brakes. You have to remove the drums and backing plates to make dually wheels fit, and spacers are required to run 12.50's dualled up.
 
Very true, but he didn't say what class. Yes he said he was going to still street it, so it won't be a real crazy setup. Removing all of that stuff is fully legal in a 3.0 class though. I have also seen 2.6-2.8 classes state no duals if there isn't dually flares.
 
Thanks guys for the input I pull in the 2.6 class and I think my best bet is to stay single wheel. Next question does anyone daily drive Truxus STS tires and if so how many miles are you getting out of them. I am sure the mileage is poor, just wondering.
 
Well my bro proably has around 15000 on his truxus on his 05 with no rotation! Their showing a little wear but not to bad, I only got 1000 miles on mine
 
smokingoat04 said:
I know in my personal experience, on a 2nd gen single wheel with drum brakes. You have to remove the drums and backing plates to make dually wheels fit, and spacers are required to run 12.50's dualled up.
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not totally true- If you have a 2001 (non disk brake truck) you can slap a set of duallys on there with out a problem. There me some very minor grinding to the brake drum just to clean up the out side corner. The 2001 drum brake trucks had drums that were 12x4" instead of the 13"x3" in the earlier years makeing it possible to put the duallys on.

On my brothers 97 we landed up getting a whole brake assembly off a 2001 and swaping all the parts including the hubs and it worked perfectly to run the duals....talk about a difference in traction from the single wheel pulls!

Ryan
 
dodges must be a lot different than Fords - a dually wheel will not go on a srw Ford truck as it hits the springs first and would take about a 2.5" spacer to prevent that from happening - an awful lot of leverage for sure
 
RyanB said:
not totally true- If you have a 2001 (non disk brake truck) you can slap a set of duallys on there with out a problem. There me some very minor grinding to the brake drum just to clean up the out side corner. The 2001 drum brake trucks had drums that were 12x4" instead of the 13"x3" in the earlier years makeing it possible to put the duallys on.

Ryan
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Yea I was going off of a 95, good to know.
 
Yes i daily Drive my truck with STS but yes they have been rotated once and so far they are wearing but better than I expected. probably close to 15,000 miles on them and they still have alot of tread. Could very Easily get 30,000-40,000 miles out of them but by then the edges will probably be worn off and won't hook up near as good when hooked to the sled.
 
It has taken me some time to accomplish this and I am still working on it but after my new gears are put in the rear I am putting on a regular 2500 spare wheel on my Dana 70 first with a 315-75-16 and then a long spacer and bolt those to the longer studs on the axle and then another spacer bolted to the first spacer followed up by the outer wheel with the same tire size. Some would say this is unsafe but keep in mind the only thing not wrapped around the hub is the outer wheel.

Seems complicated but when the gears are in I will post a new thread with pics. Now this is just a towing/ hauling truck retired from pulling but I may try it wityh this setup and see what it does.

You see the way the truck looks in the avatar, Just picture it with a tire inside of the other in the rear.
 
how much of a spacer is needed between dually wheels to run 33x12.5's side by side?

is a spacer needed on the hub of a SRW to set the first tire out and not hit the springs when running duals?
 
getblown5.9 said:
how much of a spacer is needed between dually wheels to run 33x12.5's side by side?

is a spacer needed on the hub of a SRW to set the first tire out and not hit the springs when running duals?
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1.5" should be enough of a spacer, I run a 2" and its a bit too wide.
 
Dane is running a 3inch spacer, Kinda looks silly for my taste but it kinda gives the front tires and the rear tires a different contact on the track as the front one kinda rides in between the middle of the back two.
 
im thinking about this, i finally found 16.5 dually wheels new, they arent cheap but cheaper than getting 16" wheels and then having to buy 4 new tires for them
 
Bobcat698 said:
1.5" should be enough of a spacer, I run a 2" and its a bit too wide.
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I am running 33x12.50s on mine with a 1.5 inch spacer. There is just barely any room between them, but it works just fine. I wish I would have bought the 2 inch spacers the first time though. If you go with a 1.5 inch spacer you will have to grind about 1/2inch of material off of the wheelstuds to allow the outter wheel to mount up flush. Other wise the wheel studs stick out past the spacer.
 
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