Adjusting Wheel Tread

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You can widen the stance take the front tires and swap sides turning the dished out part of the rim to the inside which will move the tires out 5-6"
If you look at the pic of the front wheel in the previous pic,that outside of the rim would be inside when you swap them.You have to put the left front on the rightside and the right front on the leftside to keep the direction of the tires right.Do the same with the rear,you can leave the weights on the inside if you want,also on the rears you can unbolt the center plate and reverse it for move width.Take a look,you will see it's not that hard once you swap sides

Tommy
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Here is a pic to look at

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It appears my wheel center is almost centered in the rim, not dished toward one way or the other, thus flipping to other side did absolutely nothing. .... I begining to think that you can't widen these for some reason.

The front rim that originally came on the 4wd 200 series was a fixed offset type, mounted concave side in to help protect the drive assemblies from ground obstacles. I've got an older Jinma 200 series owner's manual that is pretty clear about NOT reversing the front offset rims on 4wd models. That said, subsequent manuals may have changed. A drawing of the 4wd rim I'm talking about can be seen at http://johnstractor.com/files/FrontWheel.jpg

Your description makes it sound like the rim that comes on the 2wd versions, or some of them anyway. I'm out of state now, or I'd post a picture of the 2wd rim from the parts manual.

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Well, now that I have my eyeballs calibrated, I found that I did indeed gain some distance by swapping the fronts. Funny, they seem exactly lined up with rears now so I don't think I will mess with the rears. In fact, I will probably put fronts back. Guess I need to hire a dozer to level some roads to ease that pucker factor.