Jonny357

Jonny357

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Evening all,

New on here but I have a question.

I am possibly thinking of fitting a 2" lift kit to a 90 so i can run some 33/12.5 r15 tyres. I was going to use an a 2" lift spring and extended shocks.

my question is, what are the pros and cons of this? the vehicle will see a fair amount of road use aswell. Secondly, aside from the shocks and springs, will i need any other parts? I have heard that 2" is the max you can get away with before you have to replace other areas.


Cheers

Jonny
 
Only my opinion, not a fan of lift kits unless your doing serious off roading. If you do go ahead you should do flexi hoses and possibly rad arms. Back to my thoughts on lift kits if you are using on road the handling is shocking after conversion consuption goes up and insurance can be a problem. You have none if you dont tell them. But each to thier own.
 
ok so what are the widest tyres i can fit without lifting the 90?

Im sorry this must have been done to death but Im having trouble finding answers :(
 
For mainly road used vehicles I don't see point of putting on overly wide tyres, you will either loose turning circle or have to fit wider arches, also when snow comes a reasonable width of tyre works best unless you have very wide pattern but then you loose road ability.I will say again, only my opinion.
 
fyne1 said:
For mainly road used vehicles I don't see point of putting on overly wide tyres, you will either loose turning circle or have to fit wider arches, also when snow comes a reasonable width of tyre works best unless you have very wide pattern but then you loose road ability.I will say again, only my opinion.
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Or you buy a rim with the right offset and being a 90 they have arch extensions anyways :p
 
with off-set rims and standard arches you will get a lot of dirt and stones coming up past arches on to body work with small amounts of steering.
 
DefenderOffender said:
doubtful it will do the swivels any harm have you seen how bit the pins are in those bad boys? ill let you know when the wheel falls off the rangie though!

:doh:
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i see a disco snap 1 along time back.huge offsets and spacers.

i prefer to stay tucked in narrow and lose a bit of lock. the disco steels i have are off set inwards.i got big fat tyres tucked in neat. far stronger at 50mph lanein.:D
 
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