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Pajero wheel travel

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Pajero wheel travel

Post by Eric »

has anyone here , modified there front end for more down travel on a Pajero, i was wondering what you did to combat the ball joint angle ?

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Post by J Top »

Drilled out the top joint and A arm and spaced it down 1" with 10mm cap screws.Unbolt the lower shock mount from the A arm and space it 10mm to increase down travel.
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Post by Eric »

from memory , the top ball joint is bolted from the top . Its a 93 mod , sorry shoul dhave added that . We have modified the bumb stops and taken a slice out of the chassis , to allow the top arm to come down more . We have acheaved a extra 40 mm down tavel from the top arms . Shockers are ok . The angle of the top ball joint is wrong and wont allow the arm to travel the full length of the mod . once its all assembled .
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Post by J Top »

A common mod is to bolt the ball joint under the top arm,which raises the bump stops and arm allowing more travel.
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Post by Bitsamissin »

After cutting down the upper bumpstops to about 8mm you can flip the balljoint. Instead of mounting through the top of the A arm mount from underneath and you can use a 10mm spacer in between. This will give a few more inches. There are some safety consideration with this mod as well. I think from memory you end up with around 10-12" of total travel with this mod.
Are you measuring with the front swaybar off ?? On Gen 2 Paj's they are very thick and stiff set up for road handling. If you run 31" tyres and under (without a body lift) you can hack off a bit from the lower bumpstops to achieve even more up travel before hitting the guards.
I got sick of all that though and are having a front solid axle put in at the moment :D
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Post by Eric »

front sway bars and rear sway bar are off now , running 33" tires with a 2 inch body lift 2" suspention
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Post by Eric »

Thanks for the help guys , I will give the under arm ball joint a go . Bitsumissin . I would be interested on info for your live front axle
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Post by Bitsamissin »

Yep Cheezy is doing it now.
Basically he is using a re-tubed Hilux front housing with a Bundy HP centre it will have an ARB locker and 5.29 diff ratio. The front will be a 5 link set up. The rear will be an A frame set up with the Mitsu housing (5.29's were a factory option on some models).
There is a thread in the Mitsu section about it with pics.

This is a pic of a 92 Paj, front swaybar disco'd, TJM Series 2000 60mm torsion bar crank, upper bumpstops cut down to 8mm everything else (front suspension) is standard.

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Post by Eric »

looks great cant wait to see the Paj in action now
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