Torque, meaty rubbers and pavement plus jumping off the line and hard cornering equals rogue tires. No injuries. Felt it coming and was pulling over.

[Rocket Man]

I say it’s a failure caused by two things. First, Rough Country hubs are not hub centric, I looked this up. This has been a known issue with our trucks because the weight is completely supported by the studs which is not how our hubs and wheels are engineered. The hubs are supposed to support the weight and the lugs hold the wheel to the hub. Second is they were probably not installed correctly as in the wheels were never removed and the lugs that hold the spacers on weren’t re torqued which resulted in the spacers working back and forth on the studs where if they were hub centric you would notice a wobbly wheel before it failed because weight would still be on the hub instead of completely on the studs. But it’s only an opinion and I doubt we will ever know. This does have the classic symptoms of non hub centric wheels or spacers though.

 

[Swaggerwagon]

I couldn’t have said it better than Rocketman. Just wanted to add, that ‘after the fact/carnage’ photos of damaged wheels & spacers….always have wallowed-out stud holes. Lugnuts nuts don’t ‘lose torque’ all the sudden. It’s a gradual thing that occurs over thousands of revolutions. An improperly torqued lugnut backs off ever so slightly, and then allows the rim or spacer to move inward and outward just a teeny bit. Once that occurs a couple thousand times, to the point of absolute failure….every mounting hole is ovalized. So 01hoe made a mistake by disregarding the instructions, but he’s already paid the price. I give him credit for having the balls to share his experience with the community. I’m sure this story will prevent a couple of rookie enthusiasts from making the same mistake in the future.

 

[Toasty]

This is why spacers like this are not a good idea.