FollowupID: 378624 Submitted:
Wednesday, Aug 03, 2005 at 17:34
guzzi posted:
with a 30 to 40 mm lift just "flipping" the ball joint will be sufficient to keep your wheel alignment in spec.
Putting a spacer in will allow you to crank your bars higher, but it does have a downside.
Downward wheel travel is reduced as you're now very close to the bump stop, CV angles are now getting quite steep and CV and CV boot wear now will be a problem.
Boots are easy enough to change but it is a PITA.
While you're changeing the boots on your CV's and repacking them with clean grease you'll notice that the whole shooting match is held together by a 1.5mm thick ring clip, the higher the bars are cranked the greater the load on this massive bit of accountant engineering. When this fails things fall apart. Limit your lift to 30 to 40 mm and you minimise this.
Cranking your bars right up and cutting the bump stops almosts guaranties CV failure.
have a look on planet isuzu and the outer limits (gmh/isuzu) sites and do a
search heaps of relevant info there.