AnswerID: 91477 Submitted: Wednesday, Jan 05, 2005 at 18:51
geocacher (djcache)
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Hi Glenn,
What are you trying to achieve by doing this?
I have a Courier so know exactly where you are coming from.
The main reason most go for a body lift is to run bigger diameter rubber/wheels on the end of the axles there by raising the diff centre and cross member by the difference in the radius. The down side of this is that every bit you go up in diameter you raise your overall gearing thus reducing effectiveness of all gear ratios and therefore torque. (I'm electronic not mechanical so someone will correct me if I've stuffed this up.)
The body lift will otherwise improve rampover, approach and departure angles but I don't find that's what really impedes progress. I have had more trouble getting stuck when the ruts are deeper than the diffs and the
tyres end up loosing contact with the hard (or soft) stuff.
I'm spending the money on an ARB Airlocker instead. (They are in development at the moment and will be available soon - Place a back order on ARB Part # RD123 at your local dealer and a rear airlocker will appear as soon as they are finished doing the development work on it. Last I heard this will be about April.)
I also added a leaf to the rear spring pack to get it back to factory height after I added canopy, bars, _Affordable_Storage_Drawers.aspx, gear,
fridge etc to the full time load. It was amazing how much it had dropped, and the local frontend joint here wound the torsion bars up in the front to compensate for the winch, bar and extra battery as this was never done by the original owner so the front was riding low when I bought it, and I added a 12" battery and side rails/steps to the bar and winch weight.
Very interested in your thoughts though.
Dave
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FollowupID: 350676 Submitted:
Friday, Jan 07, 2005 at 23:11
Member - Glenn P (SA) posted:
Hi Dave,
Ramp over angle is my main concern at this point in time. Having just returned from the Otway Ranges after some wet stuff from above, I had the Bravo drop her Tow Bar on the mud on three occassions and had to be towed back down the hill. I have a fabricated tow bar being made, to help with the clearance, just thought a Body lift would also help out. I agree with you, if I had a locker up front, I would have probably dragged the R-Send over the mud. Had a look at your page and like the things you have done to your ride. I am in the process of making my own roof rack to carry my boat. Last year was the Simpson, this year is 6 - 7 weeks during May etc, doing the Tanami, Kimberleys, Gibb River and across through to Borraloola and Hells
Gate, Dragging my Camper all the way with a Tinnie on Top.
Regards Glenn
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