sportrak lif

[cookiemonster84]

im fairly new to off roading and i have a sportrak im looking for a lift kit for it so any help would be great. i have read on this site that fourtrak rear leaf springs will fit and give me a lift but im unsure of what to do on the front.

anyhelp would be great......thanks everyone

[mill2020]

Hi, i've also got a slowtrak, as far as i am aware you can not buy a lift kit off the shelf. Which is pain in the a** to say the least.
As for 4trak springs again i can't say if it will fit or what sort of lift it will give.

As far as i know the majority of lifted sportraks go either with a body lift, which means lifting the body off the chassis and fitting spacers in between.

Or a suspension lift, where by with the rear you fit extended shackles to the leaf spring, extending the shackles by say 4 inches will lift the back 2 inches. With the front you simply adjust the torsion bar to match the height of the back.

On a standard sportrak i would not advise going any higher than 2 inches as this will put strain on other areas.

A good place to find out in more detail would be www.daihatsu-drivers.com  

Just type sportrak lift into the search bar.

I hope this is of some help to you,

Cheers Phil

[thepsychoman]

We fitted Fourtrack leaves to the back of our Sportrak - fitted nicely, no mods, and lifted the truck about 2" on the rear. We left the front standard - gave a nice dragster effect! But seriously... I'll see if I can find some photos.

Oh - and the Fourtrack rear springs are cheaper than the Sportrak ones! Think we sourced them from Milners, but it was a long time ago, I'd need to check...

[cookiemonster84]

cheers chaps thanks for all the info im off to milners off road

[mill2020]

We fitted Fourtrack leaves to the back of our Sportrak - fitted nicely, no mods, and lifted the truck about 2" on the rear. We left the front standard - gave a nice dragster effect! But seriously... I'll see if I can find some photos.

Oh - and the Fourtrack rear springs are cheaper than the Sportrak ones! Think we sourced them from Milners, but it was a long time ago, I'd need to check...

When you fitted the springs did you need to mod any of the mounts or did they just slide on? were they F70, F73 front or rear springs?
Could you use the sportrak poly bushes or did you need 4trak ones?

Sorry to ask so many questions in one hit, just this seems to be a far easier way of lifting a slowtrak

Cheers Phil

[thepsychoman]

Oh Jeez, we fitted these about 4 years ago! From memory these were the later Fourtrak springs (the last ones before they went to coils). Main thing is to check that the spring width is the same as the standard Sportrak one.

We used the original Sportrak shackles, existing U-bolts - no mods required, but fitted new Fourtrak bushes when fitting the springs.

It was genuinely a straight fit - no different than fitting standard springs, really.

[mill2020]

Nice one :D  

Thanks very much