Monday, Apr 18, 2011 at 21:12
I've just had
mine raised today. I was in the workshop most of the day watching the blokes swing the spanners.
On the rear, it was a simple matter of replacing
the springs and shocks with longer items.
The front was a bit (lot) more complicated. They had to add new, heavier torsion bars, add a gearbox drop adaptor/spacer, weld strengtheners onto the A arms and replace the shockers.
I achieved an approximate 4" lift at the front and 1.5" lift at the rear. Having said that, it needs to be remembered that my cruiser is a 2003 model which I just bought, with 244,000klm on the clock and
suspension was original, so it was not as high as it would have been when new. Consequently, the actual lift (from a "new" vehicle), is probably only around 2".
So, to remove that, it would just be a case of replacing the 4 shockers (if necessary), replacing the rear springs with shorter ones and provided there was no spacer used on the front diff, simply either replace the torsion bars with factory ones....or....if the lift was gained by simply winding up the original torsion bars (some bodgey blokes apparently do this!!!), then just wind the torsion bars back down again.
Not sure why you'd want to do all that though?????
Cheers
Roachie
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