alignment question

[General Chang]

Everytime I turn sharp my rim hits my tie rod and creates a crunching sound. My rims are half an inch deeper than my last ones so that is what is causing me all this trouble. anyway, my question is, if I swapped tie rods from either side so that the bow in the rod faces towards my strut instead of outward will this be alignable? a buddy of mine says reversing the tie rod will affect the toe-in. I turned the wheel all way to see if the bow in the tie rod was their so it wouldn't hit the strut and this appeared to not be the case. i can't stand having to do 3 point turns just to get into a tight parking space

[ebpda9]

i don't think you could put them the other way. you might end up with them hitting the control arm

[General Chang]

i turned my wheels all the way to see if that would happen and it appeared their would be enuff clearance if I reversed em.

[ebpda9]

there is one more problem: the treads i don't think they will go in

[General Chang]

damn, thats tru.....have u heard of some custome tie rods??

[94_AcCoRd_EX]

How wide are your wheels? Offset?

[ebpda9]

no custom tierods. maybe some wheel spacers will help you out a bit

[General Chang]

my old wheels were 5 and a half and the new ones are 6

[General Chang]

i was thinking about wheel spacers.....does anybody sell them?

[ebpda9]

the local autoparts stores

[General Chang]

damn....one place wants 120 dollars for a spacer....bet I could get a machine shop to make one for 20. btw, how many millimeters are in an inch?

[ebpda9]

1"=2.54cm=25.4mm

[General Chang]

what is offset?

[ebpda9]

http://www.hondastyle.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=8180

[General Chang]

thanx.....its positive offset.....can a machine shop offset it any more?