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Suspension lift ~ is it worth it?

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--- Quote from: "Range Rover Blues" ---It helps with aproach and departure angles, especially with an overhang.  If done right you cab also release some extra articulation (not that you need a lift to fit longer shocks) and of couorse your car will be more capable due to your wallet being so much lighter :lol:
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Totally agree! The suspension lift i did on mine (yes i know its frontera not a landrover) enabled me to fit a front live axle and run my motor on 33 inch tyres! Approach, departure and breakover have vastly improved, and while running 33,s gives my diffs that little extra clearence! With fitting plus 4 shocks it does give loads of articulation too...........

 






Cheers

Mark

wizard:
I have a 3 inch suspension lift and a 2 inch body lift.
No fancy front radius arms, with castor correction thingies, just added a double carden prop and cranked rear arms.
As everyone said it depends on what you want to do. Some people add all the off road gear and never venture off road.
A standard Disco on a good set of tyres will go most places a lifted one will go.
Bigger tyres and a lift will only tempt you to try bigger and badder obsticals which is great but not really worth the expence if you only use it for a bit of greenlaning now and again.

To get back to your original question of "is a suspension lift worth it"
 I would say yes do it. lift it, fit a set of muds and a snorkel.

wizard

lambert:
Bigbluemaverick has seemingly been lifted at the back by a previous owner by fitting lwb springs probably for towing, all i have done is jack up the front to match as the front bars had sagged by about 3 inch. Thing is tho if i go much more i'll have no droop left

Wanderer:

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The secret is room under the diffs and nothing else.

Ed
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Sorry to disagree but that statement is a little misguided as a landy front diff is not bang in the centre of the axle....yes diffs will hang in certain circumstances but traction is the secret, maintain it and you will move, uprated lifted longer travel suspension will maintain traction far more than standard suspension.. you WILL get a lot further, your diffs could hang up on the offside (as the front diff is ) but if your axles are capable of another 6" of droop on the nearside due to having uprated raised suspension you will get more traction than standard suspension and poss get out.

Cheers Steve
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We can all pick circumstances where one will be better than the other.

In reality a body lift WILL be better than a suspension lift any day of the week.

Lift the body and all of the suspension components can be kept to standard. You'll have bigger wheels on so extra room under the diffs and therefore axle.

Raise the suspension and you'll gain the same amount but you might have to have
New bumpstops
New radius arms
New propshaft
along with the rest of the grief that goes with doing a PROPER suspension lift.

It's horses for courses but I wouldn't go straight down the suspension route that I went down the first time around.

Ed

electricbluebadger:
Perhaps you miss read my post???? At NO POINT did i say one was better than the other!!! I simply pointed out the error in the statement

'Its room under the diffs that counts..nothing else'

which is quite clearly incorrect

its a combination of:

Clearance
suspension
Tyre tread
type of diff
gear selection

and above all driver ability, by far the most important

to state its clearance under the diffs and nothing else shows a lack of appreciation of the many factors that improve off road ability....

oh and dont forget that a suspension raise will also allow fitting of bigger tyres.


Cheers Steve

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