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Message: <blockquote data-quote="taquitos" data-source="post: 2083100" data-attributes="member: 65456">Yeah with stock offsets you definitely don’t need any lift to drive around on the street. Subjective aesthetics aside, stock offset is the way to go. I’m a big fan of the stock bead lock capable wheels. They are forged and can be converted to a true bead lock. Not much want over that in terms of specs.The thing I see missed with clearance checks is they are all done just by jacking the wheel up, which doesn’t account for deflection of anything else. The body mounts in particular can move a fair bit. That’s why there’s a bit of rubber fairing between the trim below the grill and the bumper and you see it look like the bumper is bouncing around in some videos. It’s actually the body bouncing around. It’s hard to tell exactly how much the body moves around but based on the rub marks on that bit of rubber on my truck, there can be at least up to 0.5” or displacement. 90 something percent of off roading is going to be completely fine. You’ve really got to bottom pretty hard to get to the point of needing that extra inch of clearance that the stock 37 trucks have. But the OE option has to cover that possibility whereas an individual doing it after the fact doesn’t. That’s with stock offsets and 37 KO2s of course. True 37s or a wider stance and it doesn’t take nearly as hard of a bottom to rub. I know you’re in the mountain bike world too. It’s similar to how I’ve managed to use 57 mm of shock stroke on a 55 mm stroke shock. If I design a link that clears but barely with all the air let out of the shock in the parking lot it will inevitably have clearance problems when bottomed hard on the trail.</blockquote>

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