Vehicle & Technical > Series Land Rovers

lift shackles

(1/3) > >>

ed209:
Hi all
I am going to invest in parabolics but can't seem to find lift shackles anywhere can anyone help and is there a down side to a small (1") lift??
Regards

Rich_P:
There's not really a thing called "Lift shackles"  :wink: But you can get military shackles or One Ton shackles which are longer than the standard Series shackles.

However, the question is, why?  If you're fitting parabolics that probably is enough in ride height increasement, and you would probably get nearly no benefit from having longer shackles unless you were into off-road competitions big style.

ed209:
Hi

Ok thanks for that.
There are some green lanes near where i live and unfortunately they have been chewed up quite badly by modded discos etc, I went down one recently and got stuck a couple of times but there was a winch and help with me fortunately.
My aim really is to lift the vehicle enough for  these lanes and a local course that at the moment i will get grounded on but also i want to give myself plenty of axel clearance so am looking into a tyre change and have been advised 750's.
Am i looking in the right direction?
Regards

Rich_P:
A suspension lift will only lift the chassis and body, but your axles will still ground you out.

You should be using 235/85r16 or 7.50r16 tyres ideally, which will give you a good amount of ground clearance.  If you have a SWB speedo fitted at the moment, then the larger tyres will mean that is will under-read because of the change of the wheel rolling diameter.  So you need to fit a LWB speedo if you want accuatish speed readings from the speedo. What tyres have you got fitted at the moment?
By the way, if the greenlane has been badly chewed up already, do you think it's a good idea to even be on them if they're in such a state?  :wink:

tomarse:
My parabolics (rocky mountain ones) on standard shackles lifted the landy by an inch or so from standard springs

Navigation

[0] Message Index

[#] Next page