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Advice for body lift

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clbarclay:
with a 40mm lift there is enough movement in the flexible section of the filler pipe. All I had to was slacken the hose clips and rotate the flexible section because the ends are offset from each other. I dought this would work though for more than 40mm lift as it was on its limit.

Range Rover Blues:
Depends on which model you have and I think yours is a high level filler/plastic tank Buster, so it will be different to the one on the steel tank.

buster uk:
ah ok,cheers.Need to take a look at it then.

Wolfie_:
When did a bodylift on my rangie the worst part and most time consuming part of the job had to be undoing all the nuts and bolt that had never been undone since new. I used one hi-lift jack to raise the body. It was very simple to do, once all the bolts were undone(10 bolts hold the shell down and 4 bolts tie the rear seat belt mount and front floor to the chassis ) I put the jack under the sill just in front of the front door and jacked it up high enough to get most of the spacers in on one side, I then had to put the jack under the rear just to lift enough to get the very rear spacer in, I then repeated this on the other side.One problem you come across is that you cant just put longer bolt through the holes, you have to remove the bushes and put the bolts through at an angle and then resettle the bushes back into place (sounds worse than it is to do ,when doing it you'll find it easier to picture what i mean)the only two bolts I couldn't put back in were the two rear ones as there is just not enough room so I put these up from the bottom but all were secured with nylock nuts so shouldn't be a problem.The only problem Ive encountered after the lift is that mines got a manual gearbox and the clutch pipe is a bit tight and could do with being replaced with a longer one.which ever side you do first you need to take the bolts out other wise they catch and the chassis lifts as well, leave the other sides bolts in so that the shell cant move side ways and extreme but possibly fall off the chassis.When we did my friends he used a hi-ab crane and as he picked up the shell it swung sideways by about 6" so I recommend leaving in some bolts.put one spacer and bolt in at a time and once through put the nut on just a couple of turns and it will stop you displacing the spacers if you need to lift a bit more.Don't forget to unclip your bumper end caps from the body and once the lift is complete loosen all the steering uj bolts and wiggle the steering wheel abit and then tighten the bolts back up.there are several floor supports that need some blocks and you need to drill two new holes for the top radiator mounts and thats about it. I had mine done for several years now and I used it as my daily drive and have had no problems what so ever and is still running around with its newest owner with the lift still fitted. As for the kit you need 10 spacers + 4 extended tie bolts and you will also need to get some 10 3/8 unf x 6"(for 2" lift)

buster uk:
Thats excelent thankyou.
Now i know what the tie bolts are.
I'll update here with pictures as i do it.
Thanks for taking the time to type all that  :D

cheers,
andy

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