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2" inch lift
way2deep:
The tolerance for steeing castor is between 1 and 3 degrees. A lift of 2" accounts for 3 degrees of castor. So a car built within tolernace can go to between 0 and minus 2 degrees.[/quote]
it's just ya luck on the tolerance biuld...i put a 2" lift on mine and no matter what extras i put on ;ie new wide angle prop.castor correction bars .it just wasn't happy ..all money down the drain :( so i took everything back off and fitted a 40mm body lift instead :D no more grief
Tyke:
Agree with that mate . . . seems to depend on what day the vehicle was built . . . . :D
My feel is that some need the 'extras', to bring them back into shape, and some don't . . . and even then it's down to driver 'feel' . . . . some can tolerate more odd handling than others.
The issue is about safety . . . . if it's not right when done, do something about it . . . . quickly. . . . before your insurance goes up :wink:
Up to 2" most have little problem if any . . . . it's nice to know you've got it right though . . .
Range Rover Blues:
That's just exaclty it, lift the truck and see how it drives.
Tyres, wheels particulalry make a differnece too. If you change the offset, wheels or psacers then ebven without a lift the castor angle will be wrong anyway.
Design is a compramise, a balancing act if you like (or juggling :roll: ).
As for the panhard rod thenonce again a matter of taste, the biggest thing is that once it's adjustable you can 'blueprint' or get rind of the factory tolerance. I'm pretty sure my LSE axle is not dead-centre at any height.
Lyndsey731:
I had a 2" lift on my old 200tdi without new front arms and its handling was frankly awfull, but then again that could also be the grizzly claws that it was sat on. On the 300 I put QT's on front and rear, the rear certainly help with the articulation and it handles a lot better than the old one though I accept that this could just be the individual vehicles as stated. One other thing with the QT's is that they are 40% lighter which helps if your bolting bumpers and winches on.
Range Rover Blues, how can wheels, offset and spacers effect the castor angle??
Gav
POSBORNE:
Thanks for the advise, i`ll definiatly take on board all of it!!
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