Outer Limits 4x4 Board

G'day all,

Just bought a 80 series turbo diesel it has a few little things to fix up first but then im going to lift it, my question is what would u do to it with around 2grand to spend on suspension?

Cheers
Bandit

depends on what you want to do with it, Tourer? light, medium or heavy driving crawling?
what tyres you wanna run?

3in springs and shocks and a set of castor corection bushes,
I would also install a set of 50mm bump stop spacers.
I run this set up on my wifes daily driver and i can put my 35s on for play time with no dramas

4inch lift kit.
some Raw4x4 shocks.

and spend rest on a holiday mate.
or a arb locker.

Go see Jamie - GSA Wholesale at Springwood

Get some Kings 2" and some longer shocks (he knows the ones). Castor Correction bushes. More height isn't needed unless you want bigger than 33" tyres. You'll get plenty of travel from that, and not bother road manners. Travel counts, height less so. 4" needs to play other things to take advantage of it, swaybar brackets etc.

After that, a rear locker. I like the Lock-Rite's and Lokka's, but hard to do if it's LSD.

It depends on your aimn for the car, but that will keep all wheels on the ground in most stuff, and the locker will push you through the rest. The ride will be better and the travel is quite adequate.
If you want to go rock-crawling, then you probably want to think differently, but you'll have to make compromises then.

Paul

Hi guys thanks for the replies,

I want to use as tourer but also with medium capabilities in off road a few hill climbs and tracks a trips to fishing spots ect, dont want to go too over board, was probly thinking to go with 33's although 35s would be sweet and 2-3 inch lift, these kings springs at gsa are they decent quality as i dont want to get cheap crap i want this stuff to last, also about the lokka i think its lsd in it (would have to look into it) but if that is the case can i still go with a arb airlocker? and how does this affect the factory center difflock?

Cheers
Bandit

1Bandit1 wrote:Hi guys thanks for the replies,

I want to use as tourer but also with medium capabilities in off road a few hill climbs and tracks a trips to fishing spots ect, dont want to go too over board, was probly thinking to go with 33's although 35s would be sweet and 2-3 inch lift, these kings springs at gsa are they decent quality as i dont want to get cheap crap i want this stuff to last, also about the lokka i think its lsd in it (would have to look into it) but if that is the case can i still go with a arb airlocker? and how does this affect the factory center difflock?

Cheers
Bandit

The center difflock is in the transfer case. No relevance to the front or rear diffs.

Kings are very good, lifetime warranty. Get them anywhere, but Jamie will look after you.

33's wont kill your fuel economy or road manners, and 2" won't rub without changing bumpstops, swaybar mounts etc.

Rear difflock will match what you said above about where you need to go.

http://neuralfibre.com/paul/?p=89
http://neuralfibre.com/paul/?p=71

Paul

if you are going to get a a difflock, an airlocker is sooooo much better than anything else.

they are sooo much dearer though

paul