Looking for the best way to lift a D4

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Originally Posted by shanegtr

Choose tyres that clear the guards when the suspension is fully deflated or make the clearancing required to fit what ever size bigger tyres you plan to run. If you don't do either of those in the event of a fault that causes the suspension to drop its not going to be pretty if your travelling at speed

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Yeah good call mate cheers

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Originally Posted by PerthDisco

Rods are available as well to trick the system to stay up and work well and are simple and cheap and removable.

With tyres let down to 16-18 and DSC off I’ve not found a sand challenge it does not eat up. If you don’t learn the DSC off trick you’ll be bogged in the second car length of sand.

I’ve got rods but today was the first day I used the height adjustment feature on the Gap tool which was amazing.

I set the new ‘normal’ height and had this salt water creek to cross so raising to off-road height with the new lift setting gave me extra extension lift to get minimum wetting!

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Yeah ive had it in the sand and was impressed as well only annoying thing was on easy sand and having the 40km hour limit , cheers mate

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Originally Posted by Tim..

Yeah ive had it in the sand and was impressed as well only annoying thing was on easy sand and having the 40km hour limit , cheers mate

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Get a scan tool like the GAP and then you can just raise it to what height you want when off road and you won’t have to worry about the 40kph lowering issue. That’s what I do when I go away off road. Once I’m back reset it to standard.

Much more expensive option than rods, but you’ll need a decent code reader anyway so it’s a good solution

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Originally Posted by DiscoJeffster

Get a scan tool like the GAP and then you can just raise it to what height you want when off road and you won’t have to worry about the 40kph lowering issue. That’s what I do when I go away off road. Once I’m back reset it to standard.

Much more expensive option than rods, but you’ll need a decent code reader anyway so it’s a good solution

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yeah that sounds like the way to go cheers mate

Like Tombie I am running 265-65-18. Happy with this setup. Only minimal rub at full lock.

If you can run off road at normal height I think that is the best outcome.
I have the Gap tool and love it but don’t run different heights off road. As you can lift in extreme situations that is probably the best scenario. Running at normal height is better for the vehicle from a wear and geometry perspective.

If the vehicle was non airbag then a lift would be a good option.

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Originally Posted by eckolsim

Running at normal height is better for the vehicle from a wear and geometry perspective.

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Doing *dumb **** at speed in offroad height is a recipe for CV issues. It turns out you don't have to get a Hilux with 10 leaf springs, oversized muddies and a fart can to get superlative offroad performance.