What are Creeper Locks? Creeper Locks are Trail-Gear's very own, super strong, heavy duty wheels. These wheels look great and come at an affordable Trail-Gear price! Creeper Locks are 17" X 9" wheels with a backspacing of 3.75" and are made from a solid piece of aluminum. Each wheel weighs a whopping 45 lbs with locking ring and hardware. These are no ordinary aluminum wheel, Creeper Locks" are super tough and built to last. Each wheel is cast with the inner beadlock as part of the wheel. All 24 of the bolt holes on the wheel have steel Time-Serts® installed to prevent the bolts from galling. Drop down inner lip centers tire on to wheel during mounting.

Features:

Solid Heavy Duty Design

17" Wheels, 9" Wide

3.75" Back Spacing

24, Grade 8 5/16" bolts

Time-Sert® Inserts Installed

Wheel Rating, 2800 lbs Each

Staun's internal bead locks aren't new, but many fourwheelers aren't aware of them. We think this is a shame because unlike conventional bead lock rims, Staun's internal bead locks are street legal pretty much everywhere. Other advantages include: modification requires only one extra valve stem hole drilled into your existing wheel, seats both beads at the same time, can function as run flat, allowing you to run on 0 psi, can be transferred from one wheel to another so a bent rim doesn't mean you lose the investment in your bead lock.

Do conventional bead lock wheel rings have any advantages over the internal bead locks? Yes. For starters, they protect the valve stems. And because they mount externally, it's easy to spot any problems and deal with them before the bead locks fail (eg: loose or broken bolts). But their biggest (marketing) advantage is probably the fact that they look cool and that's why they're so popular. Even the non-functional, "bead lock-style" rims are popular!

From the standpoint of your average fourwheeler whose 4x4 has to serve as a daily driver and weekend toy, the Staun bead locks make far more sense than a bead lock ring. For starters, you're not going to get busted for driving with them on the highway. For that matter, no one will even know you've got them installed. And although the price is close to USD$200 per wheel, it is still very competitive because it seats BOTH beads of the tire. In other words, that USD$200 needs to be compared against the price of TWO bead lock rings, and then also factor in the cost of converting your existing wheel to use the rings, or the price of a completely new wheel plus two-ring combination. And finally, since money is and will always be a constraint for Joe Average, if you ever damage your wheel, you can simply move the internal bead lock tube into a new wheel. Sitting inside the tire, the odds of the bead lock tube ever sustaining fourwheeling damage is very low. In contrast, the external bead lock ring is always exposed to damage.