How to measure how much lift my 80 series has??

[Stackson45]

As stated, can someone out there please take a measurement of whatever tow points are convenient, and along with what lift (or standard) height, so i can measure the same two points and see what the difference is.

I'm looking at buying a set of 2 inch lift springs, but when we bought the 80 the owner said it had new springs not that long ago and they were 1 inch lift.

Grateful if some 80 owners can help me out.

Cheers
Rob

[muddy80s]

hi my 80 has 2 inch lift and the spring length is 15 inches (front springs)on the car with weight. so id guess yours should be 14 inches.hope this helps thanks muds

[embryo]

To get a good picture of what you've got , measure the distance between the centre of the hub to the wheel arch on all four corners, then mesure a 'standard ' hight 80 ser and see waht the difference is, how ever weight that a vehicle is carring while you mesure it can con tribute to the mesurement, eg: draw system fridge kmar rear bar etc are going to bring the ride height down. tell us how you go

[Stackson45]

I'll do some measuring on the weekend, and report back.

[plowy]

ive seen the guys at arb measure from the bottom of the rim to the edge of the guard
that way even if the tyre is flat your still getting the same measurement the whole way around the car

if all the guards are outer wack you can also get a good indecation buy checkin it at the bump stops

they usually set the car up with a 20mm rack so the back sits higher
this allows the car to sit level when loaded

[Emo]

I always thought that it was from the centre of the wheel hub to the bottom of the wheel arch. That way it doesn't matter what size tyres you are running or whether they have alot of air in them or are flat.

[Stackson45]

hi my 80 has 2 inch lift and the spring length is 15 inches (front springs)on the car with weight. so id guess yours should be 14 inches.hope this helps thanks muds

Well, with the car in the driveway, slight angle to drivers side and slightly up hill, (so heaps accurate) the springs were 365mm and 385mm.
So halfway is 375mm, when divided by 25.4 = 14.76" .

So i might have 2 inch lift already, but i'll do some accurate measurments on flat ground, and report back.

[shanegtr]

My front springs are 16" loaded, just measured cause they were supposed to be 3" lift but they didnt look any diff to 2". But the measurments say other wise