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Spacer like that won't do it.
Wheels are not returnable if they have been painted or had tires mounted. Says so on the website where I ordered mine, Coker tire. I'm gonna take a wild guess and say Summit website says so as well. Hence the term and procedure, "test fit" I put a little masking tape on mine to protect them while test fitting. Could have returned them but chose to make a SIMPLE fix. He does not have the option to return. More's the pity.
No issues with runout, suspension, etc. My truck runs down the road smooth as can be at 75mph. I'll say it again, it is a very minor modification.
I bought the rims last year and finally came around to putting them on without checking them once I had them in hand first 30 days thinking it's OE style so there shouldn't be an issue for fit but I learned the hard way. I'm taking a break from them and carrying on with other repairs like bodywork. I don't have the drive to touch them so these black ones will do for now (in my profile pic). Thank you for understanding as I will choose when I want to fix them. I want to see what this thing drives like.
IF it were to become an issue, which could be from the manufacture of those wheels made them improper, someone else doesnt grind them as evenly. Infact, older trucks like these are much less sensitive to things like runout thankfully, a big reason being these wheels are reasonable , narrow, and not 22inch 10 inch+ wide baller wheels that are for some reason so popular lol....
I wanted to go with wheels that would look proper for the truck from that era and decided to go with the OE style and have more aggressive tires but not go overkill like it's Mad Max. Some day I hope to fit them on with a bit of work grinding those irritable edges discussed here.
My bad
I was doing both but more looking for solutions to my problem in hopes some of you may have come across my kind of problem. Whether its replacing drums or cutting, etc. If not then this can remind people OE style doesn't necessarily mean proper fit. I had to cut some material off both my remanufactured brake calipers for them to fit because of an interference fit with the backing plate. That was painful. I wonder if anyone here has felt my pain here in any way?
That's a key phrase. "OE style"
