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75 cruser wrote:ask the profesor he has done this on his hilux
thanks rob
Its a hilux not a stock height 80 series.
I dont need info on how to do it, Its as simple as cutting the old brackets off the housing and making new ones for the top. Im after info on wether anyone has done it at stock 80 series height and had any clearence issues with the arms hitting the chassie or anything else.
Im guessing i would only just have enough room with 4 inch lift....the best thing it does is allow caster, the next best thing is it moves the diff forward, as the arms are more parallel with the ground....
Confucious say...man who argue with idiot, worserer himself
dow50r wrote:Im guessing i would only just have enough room with 4 inch lift....the best thing it does is allow caster, the next best thing is it moves the diff forward, as the arms are more parallel with the ground....
Thanks Andrew. What does it get close to on yours?
The chassis mounted bump stops will get in the way...if you can get away without them, you would have a half descent chance of making it fit. I just had another good look under there, and it would be tight, but i think you could do it. Ive heard you can use caster plates as the new diff brackets with some modification to suit.
Confucious say...man who argue with idiot, worserer himself
dow50r wrote:The chassis mounted bump stops will get in the way...if you can get away without them, you would have a half descent chance of making it fit. I just had another good look under there, and it would be tight, but i think you could do it. Ive heard you can use caster plates as the new diff brackets with some modification to suit.
The chassie must be different on the early ones. Just had a look under the one i have here and there are no bumpstops under the chassie. Only in the coil mounts. So this is no concern. Looking at it i may need to modify the bottom of the shock mounts a little so it still gets full uptravel without hitting this.
The top plates are no problem. I know 2 different people these are available through. Its a fairly common mod on lifted ones these days.
At this stage i want to leave the suspension at stock height. At the most i may lift it 2".
bj on roids wrote:yes i read it, so go down there and test it on your stock 80 series
did you even read my post
Because i dont want to test it. I just wanted to ask the question. Im never going to do it anyway. Ive never done anything else like this before so im not going to start now
bj on roids wrote:yes i read it, so go down there and test it on your stock 80 series
did you even read my post
Because i dont want to test it. I just wanted to ask the question. Im never going to do it anyway. Ive never done anything else like this before so im not going to start now
