DANGER of dually spacers: Story of my 2" from hell

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Oct 10, 2012 | 01:51 AM

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shlen

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Originally Posted by Goeske

is your truck a 2012 dodge dually???? b/c the 2012 dodge dually has a diffrent wheel stud then the other previous years dodge...the 2012 dodge if u have it has a 14mmx1.5 thread pitch

It is a 2012 and I knew that. New rims coming, should be coming with the new lug size.

Oct 10, 2012 | 01:58 AM

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Im wondering if Shlen may have had the wrong kit for his truck and that caused issues?

Nope...they were the right kit.

Oct 10, 2012 | 06:01 AM

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Blake Clark

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Originally Posted by shlen

Nope...they were the right kit.

Hmmm. Keep digging, Im sure the root of the problem is somewhere, and once found lets get everyone informed so that no one else has any issues.

My spacers will be here on Friday, and if they require a small trim of the studs to ensure proper fit, Ill do a small write up.

Oct 11, 2012 | 07:12 AM

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Originally Posted by 1-5-3-6-2-4

I didn't know the threads changed for 12.

funny you mention it though, Just this past week on guy I work with had his truck to a tire shop to replace his rims and tires. and ran on some wrong nuts on his lugs. didn't even notice. they just ran them with the impact. bound up before they bottomed out. and broke 3 or 4 studs trying to remove them. he never turned a wheel with them, the shop did a whole new set of studs before he'd take the truck back.

Good for him! There's no need for your buddy to leave with damaged hardware.

Oct 23, 2012 | 08:24 PM

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Spacer Conclusion

I put the new set of rims on and pulled the Alcoas off. The spacers have long been taken off. I looked at the back of the rims and there was an actual slight indent of the studs which means they were longer then the spacers. "See pictures"

Here is a write up from Blake that everyone should know before installing spacers:

https://www.dieseltruckresource.com/...58#post3139558

Since my studs were a hair longer then the spacer, the rims could not sit flush, thus causing my issue. I have ran many sets of spacers and did not know about shaving the studs, nor did I think that that hair sticking out would have caused my studs to shear.

I am not trying to blame anyone (even myself

), I just hope people can read and learn from this, and not have to go through what I did or worse.

My new rims have enough offset, so I won't be re-running spacers up front, but I still have them on my duals as well as my 02 Dually.

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Oct 24, 2012 | 06:44 AM

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I'm glad you got everything squared away. Bad situation indeed, and I hope this leads people in the right direction.

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Aug 2, 2014 | 12:23 PM

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From: tenn

all my lug studs broke on the driver side rear of my 2012 ram 3500 going down interstate 75 on smooth pavement with a 9000lb load on a 40 ft 20000 lb trailer...is this a dodge problem...truck had 210000 miles on it ...