Lowered 2006 Lincoln Mark LT 4x4
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Lowered 2006 Lincoln Mark LT 4x4
I lowered my Lincoln Mark LT 4x4 and added 24 inch wheels. They rub sometime on heavy dips on freeways or high speeds. I was going to get Coil Overs and suspension shop said to add stoppers cuz the coil overs would not solve the issue. The stoppers helped a Lil. I was also told that my wheels are the wrong offset cuz they stick out about 1 inch. Could fender flare solve this issue? Any help would be greatly appreciate it Thank you
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Your last picture shows how the inner lip is wide and extends back inwards well over the tread of the tire. You lowered the truck to get the fender tlip to hug the tread. You have a to-deep offset too. It rubs because of all this. As the suspension compresses, the control arms are swinging inwards, but that's not enough to get the tire past the lip in your case.
Fender flares will not erase that wide fender lip. Longer bump stoppers just reduce suspension travel. To see all this in real life, drive the truck up on just one ramp in your driveway. Crawl under it and look at clearances on the back side too.
50 years ago the low profile 60 series tires were a new thing, but the cars we drove often had fenders intended for much narrower tires. We had to trim fender lips in cases, some even rolled the fender out to allow the tire to go up behind a lip. One guy replaced his rear shocks with solid steel struts made in his farm shop to get those L60-15 tires under his '55 Chevy with uncut fenders (he undid that pretty quick). Old law says a tire and a fender can't occupy the same space at the same time.
It looks good sitting still though.
Fender flares will not erase that wide fender lip. Longer bump stoppers just reduce suspension travel. To see all this in real life, drive the truck up on just one ramp in your driveway. Crawl under it and look at clearances on the back side too.
50 years ago the low profile 60 series tires were a new thing, but the cars we drove often had fenders intended for much narrower tires. We had to trim fender lips in cases, some even rolled the fender out to allow the tire to go up behind a lip. One guy replaced his rear shocks with solid steel struts made in his farm shop to get those L60-15 tires under his '55 Chevy with uncut fenders (he undid that pretty quick). Old law says a tire and a fender can't occupy the same space at the same time.
It looks good sitting still though.
Last edited by tbear853; 08-13-2021 at 11:53 AM.
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