winding up torsion bar (Jackaroo)

Damo,

35mm is the bench mark.
Replacing the torsion bars will still only give you 35mm.

It has a lot to do with the wheel travel.
If the torsion bars are wound up too much there will be no down travel and the CV will also be put under a lot more stress.

It is better to stay with 35mm lift.

Wayne

if you wind th bars up it makes the car look leveler and gives you a bit more front end clearence to put bigger tyres under to also give more ground clearence.

when you wind up the bars you can also get bigger tyres under to give mor clearence. you can replace the bars up to 50 mm lift but travel is limited

Hi,

You will also notice your ride quality is worse with the standard bars wound up. You will feel the bumps a bit more.

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you really dont want to go any further than 35mm for stability and safety then look to higher tyres, remember the wider you go on the Jackeroo the worse your fuel comsumption will be, I chose to go to a 75 series instead of increasing the width this raises it another 25mm.

first check your front end is at the standard height to begin with, as all torsion bar front ends will sag over time ( hilux and cruiser are particularly bad).

Easy check is that you should have 17mm clearance between the bumpstop and chassis, if not wind up the tension on the bars to suit.

On a jack 35-40mm above standard is the go , any higher and you lose too much downtravel to the lower bumpstop. this also matches most aftermarket rear coils which have 40mm height increase.