Lifting my 100 cruiser

Live front axle or IFS??

Live front (solid axle)= easy lift

IFS (wishbones)= more involved

Should be replaced with the springs as part of the suspension. That way, the springs and shocks will be working in "harmony" with each other.

As for the lift, you can go 2" no worries at all, all done in a couple of hours including a wheel alignment.

Anything over 2" will require castor correction of the front axle.

You will have to watch your clearence when going into the big shopping centres, I know mine doesn't fit in a few.

Excuse Me!

The word "Landy" is reserved for those capable products from Solihull ie LandRover.

Toyota owners never use that word except in disparaging tones to those of us who actually like LandRovers, and there are a few of us on this site

Toyota's are either Cruisers, HiLux's or Playdoes or whatever else but definitely NOT Landy's.

It's a bit like anyone calling any 4WD a jeep, it p...es off those who own Jeeps.
Same thing applies to us LandRover owners when we hear Toyota's being called Landy's

Or is it because you wish it was a Landy!!!

Cheers

Disco

Mate, I would check and tighten all of the body mounts B4 doing the susp as the mounts will usually make a noise like somone hitting the floorpan with a rubber mallet when you hit a jarring type bump, but not as noticable in normal road driving. My 78 and my 100 both make body mount noises.
2 inch lift no probs. I just removed my 2 inch OME springs today and put in a set of 70mm Kings springs like I had in my dual cab 80 series.
Hope this helps.
Tour Boy

G'day,

If you go 2 inch lift (Entry Level and most common) longer shocks are required and i would strongly reccomend the caster correction bushes to retain the original high speed stability. I raised my 80 series 2 inches 3 years ago and just a couple of weeks ago fitted the caster correction kit. it has transformed how it drives, i should have done it 3 years ago! I chose King springs and Koni shocks which i'm very happy with.

Regards

Greg