Australian Suspension

[navara-au]

Has anyone upgraded there suspension yet?

I have just got of the phone from ARB they wont have the Old Man Emu suspension until september or later
It will have greasable shackles on the leaf springs ,lift the truck by about 40mm and will cost an arm and a leg.

Right now i would be happy to have some decent rear shocks,I added 3x extra rear leafsprings, including an 8mm overider spring on the bottom on each side.Well i did emphasize that i wanted them heavyduty.

Why dont we have rear coils they have that option on the patrol trucks?

[Todrick]

you could always pay a shop to custom fab a 3 link rear... with leaves its reletively easy... then you could run coil over reseviors with sick amounts of travel

[Bigbugga]

Have been hunting high and low for some one in Oz that can do a lift kit system of some sort.

Can get bits and peices from all sorts of people but no one can give me ONE system to do what I want.

I am prepared to wait to get it right first time.

[navara-au]

Originally Posted by Bigbugga

Have been hunting high and low for some one in Oz that can do a lift kit system of some sort.

Can get bits and peices from all sorts of people but no one can give me ONE system to do what I want.

I am prepared to wait to get it right first time.

You could be waitng awhile
Tough dog is 3-4 mounth away
Ironman hasnt even looked at starting yet(they only just finished the new hilux's suspension)
I dont know of any other aus brands

[peter]

Hi all.
I have already tried calmini's so called 3inch lift (just to get better ground clearance) it consists of two spacers for the front and rear shackles that lift 1.5"!!!! WHY? Big problem with the front, the upper a- arms hit the coil buckets almost always just negotiating a speed bump already had it banging. Had to remove the kit until I buy new a arms (total chaos). Calmini have a substantial 5inch thats available this month but I want to see what the results are from other people first before I order it otherwise I think a kit from 4x4parts.com will have to do (they ship everywhere).

Oh" there is a Company here in South Africa called Camel suspension that sell front and rear coil over (yes you heard right, rear coilover) the rears are adjustable but not the front and it doesn't get over the a-arm issue.

Regards

Peter

[Todrick]

Originally Posted by peter

Calmini have a substantial 5inch thats available this month...

not really.

SLR has a substantial 5"... but at a cost.

The calmini lift is basicly a spindle lift and blocks in the rear... for $1,300 that's just sad. I would not expect any performance gains from it... its a cosmetic lift from the looks of it.

[T-Bone]

Daystar makes a 2 to 2-1/4 inch kit. Coil spacers in front and greasable shackles at the rear. Had it qouted to me for 305 Cost + ~320 Install + 105 Alignment (all in USD)

[Todrick]

That is still gonna bang the coil buckets real bad unless you get new a-arms

[Bigbugga]

Originally Posted by navara-au

You could be waitng awhile
Tough dog is 3-4 mounth away
Ironman hasnt even looked at starting yet(they only just finished the new hilux's suspension)
I dont know of any other aus brands

No rush for me right now, most of this area up here if almost flat, and sandy to boot so a lift isnt vital right now.
I am keeping an eye out for news with a few companys but as you said it probally wont be for a few months just yet.

[peter]

Hi all,
my biggest problem with the Navara (Frontier) is that the chassis sits to low in relation to its length ie it gets hung up very easy so I reckon any lift that gets the chassis off of the ground is a good one. Has any body got an idea of what size tire will clear on the 17" rim? I currently have 255, 65, 17.

Regards
Peter