Outer Limits 4x4 Board

as you might know form the "you guys are my new friends" thread i have baught an nh swb and now i want to know if i can lift it cheaply i'm a little worryed about getting hung up on a bolws lawn .

can i use coil spacers and crank up the torsion bars?

and what isues would i run into with the bars (like snaping?)

matt

C'mon twinnie - surely you've been around OL long enough to know "Search is your friend!"

Try this as a starting point.

And you won't snap your torsion bars...

Cheers,

Scott

lol i did a search don't worry i know it anoys people when you don't but i couldn't find any thing on coil spacers.

Matt

Don't waste your money on coil spacers. Find a 4by wrecker and buy the coils from the rear of a Gen 2 LWB. Check this for more info.

If you want bone-jarring stiff, find some GQ coils - you'll never hit your rear bump stops again.

Cheers,

Scott

Twinnie I have 4 rancho shocks and 2 coils to suit a 2" lift NH LWB only been on the car for 6 months, removed when I sold the car looking for $450.00

Marty

Twinnie, just swapped to gq coils in my lwb nf. should be the same as nh. would like to get rid of old coils. Fifty bucks would do it.

thanks for the info guys

the 2 inch lift sounds good but i still owe $2000 on the car

as for the bone jaring ride well i'd rather not my cd player skips at 60 km/h already but i think the lwb coils are a good option that way every thing is still pajero and i can still say to aami that the car isn't modified

so the lwb springs are just stiffer or are they longer too?

Matt

Some of the US guys have done this mod, putting lwb coils into a swb but on Gen 1 trucks only.
They were reporting lifts of 1-2.5" but ultimately depends on the condition of your previous coils and the donor ones.

twinnie wrote:
as for the bone jaring ride well i'd rather not my cd player skips at 60 km/h already Matt

I bet it's a Sony!

I have a Sony cd player in my wife's car, every now and then I "borrow" it to go in my pajero, and it skips at 60!

Cheers, Dean

Tas_Dean wrote:

twinnie wrote:
as for the bone jaring ride well i'd rather not my cd player skips at 60 km/h already Matt

I bet it's a Sony!

I have a Sony cd player in my wife's car, every now and then I "borrow" it to go in my pajero, and it skips at 60!

Cheers, Dean

i think it's a kenwood but it's ooolllllddddd, and hence has no anti shock. for car park doof doofing only

Matt

I can get you 30mm spring spacers for $20 each. Surely postage couldn't be that much. Shane.

Shane are those coil spacers specifically for a Pajero ???
We know that Patrol coils go into the rear of a Paj (it's tight though) but off the shelf Nissan spacers wouldn't work because of the lack of room.

I'm pretty sure they are the same as the 80series and 4 Runner.

The "bone jarring ride" would not bother me as much as the lack of artic with such a heavy coil.
Coil spacers can work if the springs are firm enough, but on excessively soft springs they can add to instability.
J Top

J Top wrote:The "bone jarring ride" would not bother me as much as the lack of artic with such a heavy coil.
Coil spacers can work if the springs are firm enough, but on excessively soft springs they can add to instability.
J Top

i see where you are comming from, but surly a body lift will do the same thing, if to a lesser extent. i spose it's all physics and the only way around it is air springs .

Matt