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3" body lift on Vitara
Low Ranger:
Extend your levers by the 3" you are lifting, (diagram below) Its hard to explain but cut the straight bit above the ball then add the 3". Then re weld 12mm bars fine (try to keep it cool, add water after each weld) or the rubber joint will burn. Straighten the lean of the stick out. About half way towards the vertical. Its leaning back at say 30 gerees at the moment off staright (vertical) so re weld with about 15 degrees of lean. A bit of lean is needed to clear the dash.
Than just put your rubbers back on facing downwards. Only one though not both (too much pull from the rubber). To dress the hole i got a vinyl gaitor off a scrap landcruiser and put tha ton. works fine.
Theres some excellent right ups on Shropshire suzuki (sorry if i wasnt supposed to say that).
Heres what i did to get around that brake pipe going through the wing. (Not the best ppic , sorry) Re drill a 16mm hole 65mm below the original and put a 4mm slot between them. Undo the coupling and slide it down, then re fasten. No bleeding of brakes, required.
Richie :D
fozuki:
Cheers Mate
Thanks for the info and diagrams, that makes it easy to understand. I'm sorry to say that I've actually opened out the gap in the floor so will have to do something a bit Heath Robinson to close the gaps.... any ideas???
I would imagine having to weld a piece of plate in to fill the gap correctly and then re fit the gators over.
Regards
James
kevj84:
--- Quote from: Low Ranger on August 02, 2008, 09:57:22 ---Extend your levers by the 3" you are lifting, (diagram below) Its hard to explain but cut the straight bit above the ball then add the 3". Then re weld 12mm bars fine (try to keep it cool, add water after each weld) or the rubber joint will burn. Straighten the lean of the stick out. About half way towards the vertical. Its leaning back at say 30 gerees at the moment off staright (vertical) so re weld with about 15 degrees of lean. A bit of lean is needed to clear the dash.
Than just put your rubbers back on facing downwards. Only one though not both (too much pull from the rubber). To dress the hole i got a vinyl gaitor off a scrap landcruiser and put tha ton. works fine.
Theres some excellent right ups on Shropshire suzuki (sorry if i wasnt supposed to say that).
Heres what i did to get around that brake pipe going through the wing. (Not the best ppic , sorry) Re drill a 16mm hole 65mm below the original and put a 4mm slot between them. Undo the coupling and slide it down, then re fasten. No bleeding of brakes, required.
Richie :D
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Ive just noticed this post. By drilling the arch for the brake pipe, does this mean you can get round buying extended brake lines? :?
wrecker:
i would say so mate by looking at it ;)
Low Ranger:
Kev, yes it drops your brake line back down to almost standard, I re drilled mine 65mm below original and have 75mm body lift so my hose is only extended by 10mm. Most recon you dont need to do anything with a 2" lift but this is that easy i would do it anyway for a 2" lift aswell.
Richie ;)
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