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Well I started a front end tread, so I though I would start a rear end thread (that doesn't sound so good :?).
Whist looking for more height in the front and wanting to know how far the front can be pushed, I was also playing with the tail end.
I currently have OME 895 coils and N141 shocks in the rear and they have given me about 30mm of lift above standard.
Originally ARB fitted 896 coils and N142 shocks, but this combination was not ideal for my use (see http://www.pradopoint.com/viewtopic.php?t=22 for more information) so I swapped to the lower 895 coils and softer N141 shocks. Unfortunately this left the rear of the vehicle sitting very close to “tail down” compared to the front. So I made up a set of 25mm spacers that sit between the coil retainer/bump stop and the chassis mount. (New coils would have fixed it, but they also would have cost a couple hundred dollars to get custom wound.
So this is what I’ve done.
The spacers are laser cut from 25mm and 12mm steel plate. The 25mm section provides the lift and the 12mm section (the smaller circle) locates the rubber coil retainer/bump stop and keeps it from shifting. The two are held together with a HT cap screw and the head of the HT cap screw locates into the 12mm hole in the chassis mount.
And finally the whole lot goes back in.
At the moment the spacers rely completely on spring pressure to hold them in, but with the shocks currently limiting downward travel this is not an issue.
As it turns out, the N141/N142 shock, while longer that the OEM part, still limit travel, but I will ramble on about that in an other post.
Paul.
Well I started a front end tread, so I though I would start a rear end thread (that doesn't sound so good :?).
Whist looking for more height in the front and wanting to know how far the front can be pushed, I was also playing with the tail end.
I currently have OME 895 coils and N141 shocks in the rear and they have given me about 30mm of lift above standard.
Originally ARB fitted 896 coils and N142 shocks, but this combination was not ideal for my use (see http://www.pradopoint.com/viewtopic.php?t=22 for more information) so I swapped to the lower 895 coils and softer N141 shocks. Unfortunately this left the rear of the vehicle sitting very close to “tail down” compared to the front. So I made up a set of 25mm spacers that sit between the coil retainer/bump stop and the chassis mount. (New coils would have fixed it, but they also would have cost a couple hundred dollars to get custom wound.
So this is what I’ve done.
The spacers are laser cut from 25mm and 12mm steel plate. The 25mm section provides the lift and the 12mm section (the smaller circle) locates the rubber coil retainer/bump stop and keeps it from shifting. The two are held together with a HT cap screw and the head of the HT cap screw locates into the 12mm hole in the chassis mount.
And finally the whole lot goes back in.
At the moment the spacers rely completely on spring pressure to hold them in, but with the shocks currently limiting downward travel this is not an issue.
As it turns out, the N141/N142 shock, while longer that the OEM part, still limit travel, but I will ramble on about that in an other post.
Paul.
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