Originally Posted by clittle

I normally run the shimizu tyres on my F104, however, I was talking with someone this evening who had just recently bought Ride tyres and wheels for his F104.

He has said that in the kit position, the front wheels do not fit. They hit the bottom of the king pin. What he has had to do is compress the lower spring (kit of like preloading) in order to get the wheel onto his car.

Does anyone else have this problem with their ride wheels? I haven't seen it personally as he's going to show me more next time we meet, but I'm interested to see how people have gotten around this problem.