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How many Suzuki Sj are lifted here?

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rustyrhinos:
Mine had leaf over axle. The ride was horrid, the lefs looked like the were under stressed...in my opinion its  a bad idea if you want to do anything more than a bit of greenlaning...it's jsut asking fo4r the leafs to snap! Also had 3" extended shackles...bad bad bad! Have now gone instead for standard length shackles (but heavy duty fabricated ones) and 3" lift springs (tempered for the bend, extra leaf added). Now rides a lot happier. Now need to get new tyres as the 31X105 Grizzlys hit just about everything!

Saffy:

--- Quote from: rustyrhinos on February 21, 2010, 00:38:58 ---Mine had leaf over axle. The ride was horrid, the lefs looked like the were under stressed...in my opinion its  a bad idea if you want to do anything more than a bit of greenlaning...it's jsut asking fo4r the leafs to snap! Also had 3" extended shackles...bad bad bad! Have now gone instead for standard length shackles (but heavy duty fabricated ones) and 3" lift springs (tempered for the bend, extra leaf added). Now rides a lot happier. Now need to get new tyres as the 31X105 Grizzlys hit just about everything!

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what the worry ? Not as though anyone would ever go driving on extended shackles to Mongolia is it...........oh wait a minute :lol:  :grin:   how far did you drive on broken springs, looked painful?

rustyrhinos:

--- Quote ---what the worry ? Not as though anyone would ever go driving on extended shackles to Mongolia is it...........oh wait a minute      how far did you drive on broken springs, looked painful?
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LOL! Yeah, extended shackles was a big mistake going to Mongolia! I think we had 6/7 leaf snaps in total...we had two spare leafs which helped for those and we managed to a leaf fabricated by a garage in Kazakhstan, amazing watching that! The rest of the fixes....well...it involved exhaust clamps, threaded rod, gaffa tape, inner tubes and blocks of wood...the car didn't exactly drive very well after that! Basically as soon as we hit Kazakhstan we started having problems with our springs, so probably 4000 miles or so on broken springs!

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