GU ute suspension

[J.Dixon80]

can u go 3 inch lift on a gu ute coil cab, without doing panhards, break lines, castor correction?

and are gq springs and shocks the same as gu's?

[GU BUG]

Yes & yes

[bogged]

Yes & yes

well yes on first one depending who you talk to, I agree with GUB...
and I thought GU gear was heavier than GQ?

[Tommy]

So has anyone done this before ?

I guess another option is 2 inch suspension and 2 inch body lift but i did not really want to go refabricating mounts for bull bars and scrub bars etc.

My old Lux was a peice of cake to body lift, but the GU looks a lot harder. Basically i need to pick someones brain about the job before i start. My ambition is to run 35'' tyres with out scrubbing.

Keeping in mind im in a remote part of NT and parts are not easily accessible, i just want some good feedback before i go pulling spanners.

Cheers,

All feed back is good back. Thanks!

[weeman]

So has anyone done this before ?

I guess another option is 2 inch suspension and 2 inch body lift but i did not really want to go refabricating mounts for bull bars and scrub bars etc.

My old Lux was a peice of cake to body lift, but the GU looks a lot harder. Basically i need to pick someones brain about the job before i start. My ambition is to run 35'' tyres with out scrubbing.

Keeping in mind im in a remote part of NT and parts are not easily accessible, i just want some good feedback before i go pulling spanners.

Cheers,

All feed back is good back. Thanks!

I have an 04 TD6 wagon and have an Old man emu lift extra heavy duty springs 2" lift and LTR shocks and run 315/75/16 (35") xterrains on factory alloys and get very little scrub. The reason why it will scrub is not because of the lift its to do with the wheel offset.

so to answer your question you need to do a body lift on a gu unless you want to. maybe try searching a few rigs on the members section or the bible and you will see you dont need to run a body lift or a massive lift on gu because the wheel arches are quite large anyway.

[Tommy]

Oh right, thats good to know. Being a ute clearance at the rear is no problem as i can play with the tray height easy enough it was just the front i was worried about.

So only a 2 inch lift is required to run 35'' 's ?

Did you still need to play around with your Castor break lines etc ?

Did you notice much difference in fuel consumotion / speed and handling once you put the big rubber under mate ?

[MattGU]

I have a GU coil cab with 3 inch dobinson springs, just caster plates no drop boxes extended panhard etc. It drives fine but others will tell you different. I run 285s so aboout 33 with no problems.

Cheers Matt

[GU BUG]

Yes & yes

well yes on first one depending who you talk to, I agree with GUB...
and I thought GU gear was heavier than GQ?

Yeah some will say you need castor castor plates though I had a 3' lift in the wagon with out them & it drove fine.

As for GU gear being heavier than GQ....you could be right but I was more referring to the idea that GQ shocks/springs will go into a GU & vice versa

[bogged]

As for GU gear being heavier than GQ....you could be right but I was more referring to the idea that GQ shocks/springs will go into a GU & vice versa

yea if you put std GU shocks and springs in a GQ it will lift it but correct - they are interchangeable

[weeman]

Oh right, thats good to know. Being a ute clearance at the rear is no problem as i can play with the tray height easy enough it was just the front i was worried about.

So only a 2 inch lift is required to run 35'' 's ?

Did you still need to play around with your Castor break lines etc ?

Did you notice much difference in fuel consumotion / speed and handling once you put the big rubber under mate ?

yeap only 2" but a good decent 2" not something like from ironman or dobinson as ive found dobinson springs sag really easy...

i just had the ome castor bushes no need for plates.

handling is still good as i kept my sway bars and wouldnt bother taking them off again.

fuel consumption is ok a bit more but i have done things to tune it it up and now run 4.6 gears.

[rvh96]

i have 3inch lift in my GU1V wagon,no extended brake hoses, std panhards only moved the axles over 10mm,but i do run 2deg caster bushs which make it drive a lot better,i also have 315/75/16 mtzs on 8.5 inch -25 alloys had to remove front mud flaps to clear them on full lock turns but cab chassis have the series one flares which have more room

[DAZZA-LUX]

I have a 2002 GU coil cab with 3" lift from Pro Comp. Standard brake lines, standard panhards, however to run 35's, i have installed radius arm spacers from Marks to gain the required clearance and also removed my mud flaps.
It was tracking quite bad and a bit flighty on the steering so in went some Ride Pro 3 deg caster correction bushes (Smithies) and it is now much better to drive at freeway speeds.

[workmonday]

Dazza and rvh are spot on. I have a GQ and GU ute and have found that the after market springs are the same for GU GQ though the GQ is lighter and drives shit when i swapped the lift out of the gu in to gq. I used washers to space the radius arms forwards on the GU and could leave the mud flaps on with 35's running 3 inch susp lift, cheers

[TOPLUX]

ive got a GU ute leaf sprung rear, ive currently got a 4 inch pro comp kit which is useless. we could only put 2 inch leafs with 240 mm shackles which has worked but has no slop. I have been told by a few that i cant have bigger softer leafs and some say that i can, any ideas? without coiling the rear or doing a leaf over!

[badger]

ive been told to speak to mick at superior about the leaf rears.
apparently he can raise em up n they flex nice too