Outer Limits 4x4 Board

As title suggests, I would like to know how to clear 35's without bodylift?
I have an airbag on the steering wheel, and the engineer said he thinks that doing a bodylift to my model is illegal (he had to check up for me).
I would like to know how high the suspension needs to be to clear the 35's, I already have the guards cut and LRA flares on.
What other components and mods are required to do this sort of lift, like arms and rotating the front swivel hubs (I think thats the bit in the front that gets rotated)?
More importantly, how much money just a round about sort of cost for this type of lift?
Cheers for any help Aza

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on rover diffs it will prolly be a fallrover though
i have no body lift and 35s but mine s a little out of the ordinary

It has more to do with how far the axle is allowed to move up rather than the static lift. Work on 2" bumpstops and develop the rest of your suspension from there. The 2" bumpstops will also allow you to safely run some pretty long shocks which will give you a heap of drop travel and more overall travel than standard. Springs.... well, to suit. Setup like that you might be able to run a super soft retained 2" lift or anything up from there.

I go along with cooter and slunnie.

I have run 33" on a disco I with upgraded diff, axles and cv's. You will have to go further than that unless you drive to look after it.

With stock diff gearing, performance could be a problem - didn't say much about what model disco, or what you have in the engine bay.

Braking will suffer.

Lower the bump stops, fit spring lift (I would go at least 3") and longer shockies as slunnie suggested.

If a disco I, you will have to modify the inner guard that the mud flaps are mounted to (I don't have experience with disco II).

How are you getting away with running 35's legally? Didn't think you could get them engineered! So if your just not worrying about engineering 35's then don't worry about engineering the body lift

There are no limitations on tyre size for engineering approval in NSW.

Slunnie wrote:There are no limitations on tyre size for engineering approval in NSW.

yet

i think you should speak to a engineer about that or the rta no more 35s daz

tip for the day. If you get your car engineered in another state (eg NSW) and reg there, you can bring it straight down to Vic and reg. here as once registered with an engineers cert in another state they wont knock it back!

Thats how one of the guys here got a suziki registered in Vic with 37 inch tyres certified!

I have just gone with certification on 33s. Even though I am currently running 34s on the weekends, its a damn site closer than the 29s the plate says it used to run.

I run 35's with a 2" spring lift, that is all, i have scrubbing issues in the guard, but a bump stop extention will fix that, and as slunnie said longer shocks will give plenty downward travel, be carefull going 3" spring lift as you will be needing to dig deeper into your pockets to fix geometry issues.