Spacers/clearance

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  1. DonnyG123

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    Hey guys I picked up these rims and tires from a friend for a 150 bucks I'm doing disc brakes all around and need to change mine . My question is what size of spacers would I need for the front I was thinking 1-1.5 and 2" in the rear. The other question is would I have any problem with the tires with clearance? Here are the pictures
     

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    To be sure you are going to have to measure the backspace on the Mustang wheels and take a wheel off of the car and use a string across the face of the brake hub to almost the ground and measure to inner wheel well lip and to the leaf springs. Most cars you can get away with 4 1/4" wheel backspace and an 8" wide wheel. I had some wheels like those and the backspace was 6 1/2" so would have needed a 2 1/4" spacer but through the years all those wheels have different backspace sizes.

    Be careful in your spacer choice and get the type that bolts on and has separate wheel studs
     
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    Okay deff have to measure and test it. Thanks for the information. Have to look into that
     
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    RMiller My name is Rick

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    Great set of wheels for the price!
     
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    Thanks think they would look nice on the maverick reason why I picked them up plus the tires there only have 3k miles on them
     
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    RMiller My name is Rick

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    You paid half what I did for bare wheels!
     
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    Haha really well I lucked out with these
     

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