Lift Kit Requirements to fit 255/85's

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Originally Posted by n plus one

If he did I expect it would have been on the Radius Arms and not the spring towers. You can eliminate this by adjusting your steering lock stops, but then your turning circle gets worse.

My 265/75s on Boosts used to rub their side biters on the RAs - you could feel the lugs seperately as it did it!

All these issues are easily addressed with greater offset wheels though.

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I have made a few measurements under the car at full steering lock and I reckon we are talking mm for the 255's to touch the radius arms. Given I have the sawtooths with 20mm offset should be pretty close.

Finally had the BFG 255/85 fitted on the black sawtooth rims and while i hnavnt been off road, I can report there is no rubbing on the radius arms at least .

the rear may rub only time will tell…
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Well, i just jumped in and put some BFG All Terrain 265/75r16's on the Perentie on 20mm offset dynamic rims. The rear tyres look very close to the spring perches, what sort of clearance in mm would be required here? I think i'd be lucky to fit two fingers in the gap.

No steering adjustment required at the front, so the turning circle was obviously bigger than it needed to be before.

I'm worried i'm going to smash up the spring perches the first time i go off road with the new tyres - although i may be over-reacting. I probably should have gone the 235/85's but it's a bit late for that now!

Cheers,

Matt

defrover, thanks for posting the pics. So are you running stock springs at this stage? I am looking at 255s as well. I am pretty sure it will have a positive effect on the overal gearing. Where did you get the Sawtooth's from? Dealer? Thanks m

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Originally Posted by dingsy

Well, i just jumped in and put some BFG All Terrain 265/75r16's on the Perentie on 20mm offset dynamic rims. The rear tyres look very close to the spring perches, what sort of clearance in mm would be required here? I think i'd be lucky to fit two fingers in the gap.

No steering adjustment required at the front, so the turning circle was obviously bigger than it needed to be before.

I'm worried i'm going to smash up the spring perches the first time i go off road with the new tyres - although i may be over-reacting. I probably should have gone the 235/85's but it's a bit late for that now!

Cheers,

Matt

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My 255's when first fitted rubbed on the back spring mount with boost alloys which have 30mm positive , if you have +20mm offset this is 10 mm further away and the 265 is only 5 mm closer but 1 inch shorter than a 255/85. You should be fine
100inch, I don't know about dealer but price check all options as they would be uk imports. Try a few local suppliers and check the cost of importing from th uk direct. As long as the wheels cost under $1 k aus you pay no GST, if their over you pay it on freight as well+ other charges.

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Originally Posted by voltron

IN reference to the comments about alloy vs steel wheel. Whilst I was up in Rockhampton over xmas, I had my car serviced at a LandRover workshop. Whilst there I saw pictures of a Black 110 that had aftermarket alloy wheel failure, causing it to flip 3 times. It was the rear left wheel from memory and it looked like the car flipped sideways wheel to wheel as the damage to the roof wasn't as bad as it should have been but the car was a mess and the driver somehow survived. The rims were expensive alloys and rated appropriately for the car.

I do not want to remove the factory rims after seeing these pictures and I am surpised it hasn't been mentioned on the forum. Does anyone know or know of the owner.

And sorry for being a bit off topic.

Osss

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How can one tell what failed when after a truck has rolled 3 times over????

Anyway, FWIW I've run many 100,000 kms off road on factory LR alloys with no failures. On the other ahnd I've had experience with Status alloys (chinese crap sold by Bob Jane T Marts) which failed after 200 km - yes two hundred km - 2 trips to town and back.

Just wanted to add to this by sayin anyone keen on goin with these tyres is that they work well with absolutely no rubbing on the black sawtooth alloys at least .. I have tested the suspension on some heavily rutted tracks with longer bilstein shocks so lots of articulation and not one single bit of rub mark