Prado Lift

How do you work that out ?

Easy.... and don't say the diff will hold it up , last time I got bogged to the chassis the diff was 3/4 covered , so what I'm saying is ..if the chassis is 2'' higher then the diff will go in 2'' further before the chassis touches ground.

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hhhmm, well that's an interesting take you have on it. So what you are saying is that if you have a 4" or 6" lift etc you will keep burying the undercarriage of the vehicle till you hit the chassis ??

We were talking about 2'', now you have added 4'' and 6'' , I would presume if the mud is soft enough yes.

Where do you reackon the rear diff and chassis was when my Troopy was bogged for 4 days.


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If you read my original post I said all I do is beach work, you have added the mud for some reason which is entirely different situation and doesn t apply to my original question. I mention the 4" & 6" lift as your reasoning of getting stuck deeper should still apply regardless of lift ?

dougs right

I have standard hight sagged springs on my 80 and have made it htrough and helped out lifted 80 series running low tyre pressures

biggest difference was i was running 235 tyres to there 285 tyres - but hight certianly didnt make up for the wide tyres in sand

Thanks Grant, can i ask what rims & tyres you are running

Hello.
Standard 16" prado steel rims, BF Goodrich AT 265/70's tyres. I thought about 75's but didn't want to stuff the speedo up, didn't want to gear the car up. Especially seeing as I pull a Kimberley Kamper and the car is a manual. I think the clutch is working hard enough.

It's my second set of AT's. I thought about the Mud Terrain but apparently you can't get them in 70 series on a 16". The first lot didn't puncture, and did about 80,000 ks. We've been up the Cape on the OTL, on some rough tracks like out to Surveyor Generals Cnr, (cnr of WA, SA, NT). out of Chambers Pillar to Finke, Dailhousie etc. and they haven't missed a beet. They clog up in mud however, but most of my trips are in the dry. The prado is a petrol, was on gas but I took that off. It's done just over 200,000k and you could eat your dinner off the engine, doesn't use a drop of water or oil. I don't think you can beet a Toyota for serious outback travel. Only problem is you pay for them.

Thanks for your input Garth, appreciate it. I have owned other 4wd's which I have raised due to lack of clearance. Never owned a Prado before and was told by another Prado owner not to bother with the height. Think he was just being cocky about its capabilities..lol.