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Old 06-08-2013, 02:19 AM
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Well see that's the thing is that tire has been going low on me for a while now but I could never find a leak so there must have been a small hair line crack in the rim I'm thinking
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Clean the wheel and lay both pieces on the face. Take some pics of the inside of the wheel where it broke in 2 pieces
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I had something like this happen but the wheel did not come into 2 piece it just busted the crap out of it about half way around it. It was my top brake caliper bracket bolt came out and it laid out and hit the wheel. But I have seen the bottom ones come out and let the bottom part of the bracket rub wheels. It will put a nice groove in them. And I could see that making it weak. When the bottom bolt come out it will really only give u trouble in reverse. It can catch and lock that wheel up like the brake is holding. I dunno it's just a theory of how it could have happened? Post pics if u can?
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Good job man. Looks like you have something to hang on the wall there. Haha I won't look at my rims the same anymore.
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Is that a replica FX4 wheel or an original. I've seen a few race cars split their wheels but not a slow truck.
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Originally Posted by cle04
Well last weekend I went off roading with a few of my buddies, we all got stuck at one point or another, then as I was leaving the trail, Bang! Get out of the truck and found my rim blew I half, anybody have this happen to them??
What happened to your honeycomb grille?
Old 06-08-2013, 02:19 PM
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Originally Posted by HardcoreFx4

What happened to your honeycomb grille?
The grill's weren't honeycomb until 2001 I think. This is what they looked like before that.
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Nah they were honeycomb in 99 97 and 98 had different front end slightly but u just have a basic work Style grill is what I call em. Mostly in the xl version trucks.
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Originally Posted by rcruz3568
Nah they were honeycomb in 99 97 and 98 had different front end slightly but u just have a basic work Style grill is what I call em. Mostly in the xl version trucks.
Yeah. But he had fx4 wheels and in his profile pic it looks like it had a honeycomb.
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They are OEM rims, I just checked, but my truck isn't a true FX4 I just prefer the decals better, but it is a XLT XTR but whom ever bought the truck new had it ordered with the FX4 rims just to clear things up


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