Lifting up Icelander style

[BabyGodzillaGTi-R]

Was searching on the net for ideas on lifting the Rangie Classic and i bumped into this.
What's your opinion?
Too much hardwork?
Or just lifting things at the extreme.

http://www.4x4offroads.com/land-rover-defender-1.html

[DK]

Total waste of time..Especially on a defender/county as u can almost fit a 36" tyre on a standard truck just remove the flares...Add a couple inches of lift,remove the flares and get the right offset rims 38's no probs..

I Would much rather cut guards than move suspension mounts..

[RangingRover]

I don't really know why you'd bother rewelding the spring seats when you could acchieve the same effect by bolting or even welding a spacer onto the diff... strikes me as a much safer way to do it, and you can play with it by bolting different thickness spacers in. Then run cranked arms, instead of dropping the outriggers down and losing clearance under them.....

But yeah, better off cutting guards, less top heavy.

If you want a big lift on a rangie classic, one cheapish way I've seen it done is run very heavy duty rear King Springs all round (KRRR-02), with a 2 inch spacer under the back ones, and get some big travel shocks. One of the guys I wheel with has this setup on his Rangie, and it works very well, but it does bodyroll a fair bit onroad.

Was going to go this setup on mine, especially since I got the springs for free, but I think I may just run them in the back without spacers, and get some matching springs for the front - I really don't need that much lift, especially since I reckon I could almost run 36s without issue as it is. I figure a small increase in lift, and some nice long shocks and spring locating cones should be fine for my needs.

[uninformed]

alot of people knock the Icelandic guys.

but they have very tuff engieerinng laws and i don't know anywhere else that you could have bought a new s11 disco on 38's and still covered by warranty.

it works for there treking over snow/glaciers as they don't need huge flex or get hung up on lots of rocks and stuff.

from what i have read they still drive very well on the road.

but horses for corses

serg

[Reddo]

I like the set up, and the vehicle looks quite stable and the proportions are 'right', not like the huge swaying monsters I've seen with locally lifted Nissan/Yotas in order to get this size tyre under, and with control arms at all sorts of stupid angles. Seems that they have thought this one through.

Appreciate that you could achieve the same with guard cutting but I doubt you'd get the same sort of suspension travel as this one.

[crankycruiser]

I like the set up, and the vehicle looks quite stable and the proportions are 'right', not like the huge swaying monsters I've seen with locally lifted Nissan/Yotas in order to get this size tyre under, and with control arms at all sorts of stupid angles. Seems that they have thought this one through.

Appreciate that you could achieve the same with guard cutting but I doubt you'd get the same sort of suspension travel as this one.

hrmm my swayin monster works jsut fine..!

each to their own i say!

[Spike_Sierra]

but your swaying moster has relatively flat control arms eg, flip arm.

[Micka]

HIJACK and I modded the front shock tower on his old Rangie in much the same way. His front end had no flex with the springs that were in it, so we put in softer coils - for a 4" lift - and dropped the shock tower by 2".

After that the bloody thing flexed like mad. We had to cut more out of the guards to stop the 37" Creepies from rubbing.

All of the work on that Icelandic Defender seems like far more work than bolting on some Maxi-Drive portals.