Beadlocks?

4 or 5? Discuss...

4 because the fifth one is easy to steal and its TOO much bling

Kinda what I was thinking, plus it's an easy way to save $200 ($60 black steel vs. $260 beadlock).

5 only if they were all 'new' and were to be rotated, but I agree with 4

Well it is a done deal. Ordered 4 of these tonight:



I got them in 15x8, 5x4.5 bolt pattern and 3.5" backspacing.

Also this week I trimmed my flares to fit the 36" tires. Trimmed 1.5" off the front TJ flares and 2" off the rear Rubicon flares. They came out so good that when I had Robin come out to the garage to check out the Jeep she said "What's different?". She couldn't tell they were trimmed...

Before & after pics?

Zip wrote:Before & after pics?

Here is a before pic:



After pics will be posted once the new rims are mounted up

Awesome! Now we just have a few more rigs that need to switch to swampers so we can run these muddy PNW trails without winching all day.

Well I got an email this morning that my order was canceled due to that size being on permanent back-order.

Back to the drawing board, not sure what I'm going to get now...

SUCK!!!!

Nobody in the club has OMF

OMF is a welded on conversion of an AE rim. May end up going that route, but I'd probably just go trailready in that case since they are local. Trailready conversion rims run around $275.

What are your rims Jon?

Trail Ready

http://www.trailready.com/wheels_HD.html

Took 1 week from order to pick up

Where did you buy them?

S&N Fab but I think you can just go there, I think thats what Chris and Jon did.

Just got off the phone with David, more details coming soon...

Details now!!!!

Hmmm, nothing to report I'm afraid....

wsm04rubi wrote:Also this week I trimmed my flares to fit the 36" tires. Trimmed 1.5" off the front TJ flares and 2" off the rear Rubicon flares. They came out so good that when I had Robin come out to the garage to check out the Jeep she said "What's different?". She couldn't tell they were trimmed...

Nice! Can't wait to see the Jeep once everything is done!!

Ended up going with the Walker Evans so I'm copying Justin

Order is placed (from Northridge4x4), should have them in 3 or 4 weeks!

I think I'll paint my Jeep red now and buy some PSC fenders

wsm04rubi wrote:Ended up going with the Walker Evans so I'm copying Justin

Order is placed (from Northridge4x4), should have them in 3 or 4 weeks!

I think I'll paint my Jeep red now and buy some PSC fenders

OK, now we need to talk. First of all, did you get polished or unpolished? Did you get the beadlock ring any special color? And lastly, you should PM me how much you paid for them because I can usually talk David down quite a bit. Good choice on the wheels though, last set you'll ever have to buy.

Unpolished rims, and plain unpolished rings. I am thinking about clear coating them with a satin finish clear just to keep them from oxidizing and making them easier to clean...

Are they here yet, Bill??

Not yet. They are on back order, should get them around the first week of January...

I got an email today saying they just got in a shipment of wheel castings so my replacement wheel should be here soon. Hopefully that means the same for you.