Outer Limits 4x4 Board

whats the best way to put 3in raised springs in a gq when you are doing it by your self

remove shocks,

lift body up and put on chassis stands. lift one wheel at a time off the ground, remove wheel and lower diff till spring drops out. replace spring and lift wheel / refit tyre. make sure there is ONLY the weight of the diffs on the tyres or the car might get pushed off the stands otherwise.

The front may have to be done together as the panhard and 3 links don't flex enough to do one corner at a time. The swaybar also dictates that both done at once.

Its probably the most dangerous work you can do on your car at home so be careful. You might need to put the rear brake line on the front and get a new rear made longer.

at the time i did it same as bru but i lowered the whol axle with jack pull out old spring put in new ones then jacked it back to where its needed i did this for both front and back ,
eaysest way without hurting yaself

will i need anything else with the 3in lift maybe offsett bushes or will i get away with them having no more the 3in

cheers

MY89GQ wrote:will i need anything else with the 3in lift maybe offsett bushes or will i get away with them having no more the 3in

cheers

Borderline, but give it a go and see what happens on the road.

If you do get the wobbles i have a set of radius arms with 3degree castor bushes in them for sale that i just replaced with a set of 2dxtreme arms.

Just make sure everything else is "tight" and the tyres are balanced first.

cheers smitty

MY89GQ wrote:will i need anything else with the 3in lift maybe offsett bushes or will i get away with them having no more the 3in

I would say... no way known. It will wander heaps without some castor correction. Personally I didn't like the bushes much, I think it needs something better to do the job right.

You probably want brake lines too... I think (long time ago for me) it's rear brakelines to the front and new ones in the rear. Or maybe the other way around.

Longer panhards also.

i'm buying these 3in springs and shocks second hand is there anyway to tell what length they are for sure the guy said they are 3in or 2 and half

cheers

Shocks you can measure, springs it's hard to say until they're on.

chimpboy wrote:You probably want brake lines too... I think (long time ago for me) it's rear brakelines to the front and new ones in the rear. Or maybe the other way around.

Correct. I just got two new ones from hobsy as the old ones were nearly 20 years old.