lift kit ?????????????????????????????? ????

[steve s]

please can someone tell me .if all you need to do is fit 2 ins spacers and wined up the torsion bars to lift a surf then spending £350.00 for the lift kit from roughtrax is a little daft is it necessary .

[stormforce]

The tosrion bars ideally would be better wound up 1.5 inch unless your going to fit free wheeling hubs aswell as you'll get to much wear on the cv's

[steve s]

hi Richard i thought that i had auto free wheeling hubs . so are you say ing that you shouldn't wined up the torsion bars more than 1 1/2. the guy that just fitted my new springs (milner 20% stronger) said spacers is all i need thats wrong then ?

[stormforce]

spacers are ok for the rear but if you wind the t/bars up to 2" you will cause more wear on the cv's thats how alot of peeps on here say about 1.5" is enough.You can wind them up 2" i'm not saying you shouldn't but if it was me then i would do it 1.5" unless fitting fw hubs

[steve s]

OK then spacers on the back 2ins longer t/bars on the front and thats it .the xra long shocks and springs aint important.

[MattF]

2ins longer t/bars on the front and thats it

That will still wear the boots out quicktime if you don't have manual hubs..

[stormforce]

its not 2" longer t/bars Steve you just wind them up 2" heres a link to how to do it
http://www.toyotasurf.asn.au/techsite/suspension.htm
the bottom of the 3 links it is
you can get away with the standard shocks on road but off road they may bottom out

[Phantom]

its not 2" longer t/bars Steve you just wind them up 2" heres a link to how to do it
http://www.toyotasurf.asn.au/techsite/suspension.htm
the bottom of the 3 links it is
you can get away with the standard shocks on road but off road they may bottom out

They'll top out Rich not bottom out. What you need to do Steve is fit 1 1/2" ball joint spacers to the front and then wind your torsion bars 1/2" this will keep the drive shafts at a respectable angle. Then fit your spacers on the rear Hey presto cheap 2" lift.
Steve.

[stormforce]

They'll top out Rich not bottom out. What you need to do Steve is fit 1 1/2" ball joint spacers to the front and then wind your torsion bars 1/2" this will keep the drive shafts at a respectable angle. Then fit your spacers on the rear Hey presto cheap 2" lift.
Steve.

thats what i meant but for for some reason i put bottom out.I'll blame the pills again but you wont believe me lol

[KERRSURF]

They'll top out Rich not bottom out. What you need to do Steve is fit 1 1/2" ball joint spacers to the front and then wind your torsion bars 1/2" this will keep the drive shafts at a respectable angle. Then fit your spacers on the rear Hey presto cheap 2" lift.
Steve.

eh? that will still have the same driveshaft angle, it just won't have such wound up bouncy torsion bars.

[steve s]

ball joint spacers spring spacers OK . so is there no benefit from extra long shocks are they just a waist of money

[KERRSURF]

what do you want, a capable truck or a street queen that looks good?

[gwh200]

i put ball joint spacers on and never adjusted the torsion bars,would have been way to bouncy.and im sure that torsion bar adjustment will give you an extreme cv angle anyway, the only way to really save them are fw hubs.

[Phantom]

eh? that will still have the same driveshaft angle, it just won't have such wound up bouncy torsion bars.

Well here's my driveshafts before the bj spacers

And after

[Phantom]

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