LIFT KIT & CASTER CORRECTION

[tjolliffe]

Hi all,
I'm thinking of putting a lift 2" kit on my 90. From what i've read about there are several other things i need to do other than jus fitting new springs and shocks.
I'm aware i'll need to lengthen the brake lines but that isnt too hard what i'm not too sure on is the caster correction. I'm thinking that if it's necissary i'll put castor correction bushes on. Is this the best idea, what are the pro's/con's, do i even really need them?
Also the prop shaft, will that need anything doing to it?
Any help/knowlage & tips would be great.

Cheers
Tom

[Muddy]

Try looking around the forum a little before asking and the search tool is useful too :!:

Have a look here as i cant be bothered to re type and there are a few other threads runing aswell.

Suspension lift

[Stumpy]

i got my 90 put a 2inch lift on and new break hoses not done anything with the prop or radius arms and dont have problems but im new to it all so still learing what a difference it makes. I also have ploy bushes all round. I got dislocation cones too. I got all my stuff from paddocks spares and had no problmes as yet :)

[ferret]

Better getting the arms as the bush's can affect how much articulation you get. But if you dont off road just go for the bush's.
You might be ok with the lift on its own but it does wear the uj's faster.
When i castor corrected mine with a 4" lift the vibrations got far worse and i had to fit a cardon jointed prop on the front and a wide angle prop on the back and its as close to smothe as a defender can get.

[Budgie]

I would put the suspension lift on there and see what it drives like.

If the steering goes light, is hard to keep in a straight line and tends to follow the lines in the tarmac then you may want to look at caster correction.
You will only need to change the front propshaft if you get a vibration in it after you've fitted the caster correction.

As for bushes or radius arms, I went for the radius arms because the bushes look as if they will fail quite quickly, not having the same amount of rubber/poly around the central tube.

[markyb]

see this thread

http://forums.mud-club.com/viewtopic.php?t=35532

[Range Rover Blues]

We havn't had this question for a while, I really should copy my last post into the technical section though.

As above, fit the lift and see if you can live with it.

Extend the brake hoses.

Come back and ask us how to spend your cash when you've tried it.

As a rule of thumb I recon it's cost me about £800 to lift Blue properly, it's had almost everything done and about hlaf the budget is springs and shocks.

It does handle though