Suspension and body lift

[offroadbiker]

I currently have the Iron man suspension in my 96 Trol, what will be the "impact" of having a body lift done on the Troll as well?

If do-able , what hight of lift should I look at?

Tx

[Peter Connan]

Dirk, the only effects of a body lift are to make more space in the wheelarches for the wheels to move into, and to highten your center of gravity.

My feeling is that if you are having problems whith wheels rubbing the bodywork, then a body lift is one of the ways to sort this (probably one of the easiest, depending on how and where the problem is occurring). However if your tires are not touching the body, and you do not intend modifying your suspension further, then there is very little reason for a body lift. It doen not improve your clearance angles at all, since the chassis remains in the same position relative to the ground and the wheels, unless you do further work to modify the chassis.

The only other advantage that I can think of is that you gain a little bit more room for long-range tanks or water tanks under the car, and you lift the door sills thus reducing the need for rocksliders.

[offroadbiker]

And it looks good

No problems with the 33" touching that I am aware off, just want to know if I could do a body lift if I want to and the impact there off.

Depending on the hight of the lift what does it entail doing a body lift?

More or less do you know the cost?

Tx very much

[Peter Connan]

You unbolt the body from the chassis, lift up the body and insert spacers between the body and chassis at the mounting points. Fit longer bolts and tighten. In essence the lift is done. This is for short lifts, let's say up to 50mm. Higher lifts will require more work.

However, now you are left with unsightly gaps between the body and the bumpers. There are various things you can do about this, each obviously with it's own cost implication.

Contact Alex, Theuhan or Grant for costs, they have AFAIK all done this?

[Alex Roux]

Fit longer bolts and tighten.

In my case for the Y61, the guy who did the job could not source long enough bolts, so the bolts had to be custom made.

Higher lifts will require more work.

In my case it was just 50mm, in addition to the 50mm OME suspension lift.
So the job remained relatively simple. Just make sure the break pipes and other essentials are not stretched! This is crucial.
This comes back to old 4x4 mods adage: "You can never do but one thing"
Grant menionted in an ealrier thread what he had to change just to enable a 100mm suspeniosn lift rather than the 50mm.

With the 50mm suspeniosn lift and an adidtional 50mm body lift, you have in my view the maximum clearance benefits for the minimum secondary mods that may also become necessary as a result.

[offroadbiker]

I see on 4x4direct they sell the following 50mm spacer, will this work for the Troll?
http://www.4x4direct.co.za/shop/suspens ... -p-434.htm

How many spacers are we talking about?

Second step is then to remove one of the current bolts and add 50mm to it to purchase the required new bolts to fit the longer spacers.

I'm sooooo tempted to try and do this