Hilux lowering q?s

[TruenoBoy]

Ute is rn85 double cab, I currently have 2" blocks but want to go another 1-2" lower so am considering scraping the blocks and getting the springs reset 3-4 " or keeping the blocks and reseting 1-2" which would be the better option? keeping the blocks I can return it to a slightly higher position if I ever need to. How much is reseting and where can I get it done in TGA or BOP area? do I take the leaf springs out for them or will they do it? How do you safely take leaf springs out?

I have heard that rear corolla bumpstops will go into my hilux as a shorter replacement. Guessing these are to be out of a ke70 ke30 ??
If any body has one and has a dig cam could a see a pic of them and some rough measurements? as i know no one with one to have a look. Also if you can sell me some that would be great.
I know I could just cut them but its pretty hard to get a nice cut, want it looking like a nice tidy job.

Am I going to need shorter shocks all round or just for the fronts? The rears still seem to have heaps of travel with the blocks, maybe just get stiffer ones so it is harder to compress to get to the bumpstops?

I think I can use HQ front shocks in the front for a shorter replacement but am told the lower part needs to be modified? anybody know what and how hard it is?

[fangsport]

have a nosy here :

viewtopic.php?t=41388

we havn,t implemented anything yet, but he has bought the hack whilst the Hilux is off the road

[TruenoBoy]

Thanks for that had seen that thread already though.

Can anyone help with what I am after?

[KE20]

i would go for reset leafs, depending on power. by having blocks, your more likely to have axle tramp,
but then if you got lots of power, i would use lowering blocks and add tramp rods to the top of the diff.(the further apart the leaf and tramp rods are, the less movement).
you could also get reset and get extra leaf added to stiffen up rear.

to take leafs out, jack up ute so wheels are a fraction off ground, unbolt rear shakel on both sides and remove, now with wheels on ground, undo U bolts that hold diff to leafs, then unbolt front of leaf. now drop off at spring reseter. i got mine done at 'snells springs' in auckland.

[TruenoBoy]

Cheers for that man, thinking I just get them reset 3-4 " and put the blocks in the tool box. With eliminating the blocks do I go back to the original length U-Bolts?

When the rear shackle is removed I am guessing the spring is going to be coming out of tension, does it fling quite hard or anything like that? with the wheels being slightly off the ground it should only move that much? In other words how careful do I need to be? lol

Putting it back in whats the go? trolly jack to get the rear shackle back up to bolt up?

[KE20]

when you get rid of the blocks you use the original u bolts.
when the ute is jacked up with the wheels just of the ground, the leaf will have no tension/spring init, it will stay as is, youll just have the weight of the diff on it, when you pull the shackel out the wheels will just drop to the floor, and the leaf spring will stay the same,
it will be easyer if you put a jack under diff head and jack slightly to take the weigtt off the shackels so you can remove, i just hit with hammer.once the nuts are undone, knock the plate off one side, then i find it easyer to hit the leaf, which will slide it off the shackel abit then slide top off shackel out of the chassis a bit, then do again till shackel or leaf falls out.
you dont have to worry about the leafs springing around, aslong as you have taken weight off then. but if you got weight on them youll probebly never get shackel out anyway.

[TruenoBoy]

Cheers for that man much appreciated.

Anyone got the answers to shorter shocks/ bumpstops?

[KE20]

you shouldnt need shorter shocks on rear as standard shocks are designed to compress and not bottom out, unless you notched ths chassis. ill check the front shocks on my spare chassis i have to see how much of the bump stop can be removed before the front shocks bottom out. ill let you know tomorrow.

[KE20]

i checked the shocks, the most you can cut from the bump stops front and rear is 10mm then then the shocks bottom out. so to remove the front bump stops you need to get front shocks 30mm shorter than standard. and for the rear about 4" shorter, or 2" shorter if you have 2" lowering blocks.
i check my ke70, which is a sedan, and the bump stops are above the coil springs and are round, so it must only be the ke70 wagon bump stops?