Lifted P38 on air - questions

Ill be on it around 10:30 tomorrow morn if you wanna pop over! Or just come around when you like, ill likely be at it all day!

Thanks to Brian for popping over today to bang heads with me. We looked at the situation, discussed the options, the end result being that the right rear spacer (the only offender thus far) is slightly off-true. He has offered to disassemble and re-weld it for me.

The spacer pins will be ditched, the plates are going to be bolted to the diff. The TF144's are going to be too long so I'm going to need to offload them and get some TF145's in their place. Anyone want to buy a brand new set of Terrafirma Pro Sport front +2" shocks!?!

The damage to the Rangie was more than I first thought. The diff took a fair bit of time with a hammer to straighten the bend in the spring mount, then if you look at the upper mount, it was bent up, down and inside-out as well. I managed to straighten it out a bit. What alerted me to the top damage was the fact that the bag literally fell out as I jacked the car up today. The pin had come out but the air line was still attached.

So to anyone using pins to secure the spacers - I'd advise against it!

Will be a few weeks until I touch it next, I may bolt the other 3 spacers down as they are still on the car at present.

For Gary, sorry mate I can't get all heights, but I can tell you that ground to guard lip in highway height is 870mm (average). Front sits 10-15mm lower than the rear.

Cheers
Keithy

Damn huh. But coulda been worse with two popped gen 3's I guess. And I'm sure someone will eventually want some TF144's that have only done a few metres.

Yeah, 5metres to be exact haha!

Sorry to hear what has transpired.

You've made me think that bolting down the spacers via the bottom plate would be wise.

At least it all happened in your driveway. It'll be awesome when done. Shame about the TF144's.

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Originally Posted by Keithy P38

Thanks to Brian for popping over today to bang heads with me. We looked at the situation, discussed the options, the end result being that the right rear spacer (the only offender thus far) is slightly off-true. He has offered to disassemble and re-weld it for me.

The spacer pins will be ditched, the plates are going to be bolted to the diff. The TF144's are going to be too long so I'm going to need to offload them and get some TF145's in their place. Anyone want to buy a brand new set of Terrafirma Pro Sport front +2" shocks!?!

The damage to the Rangie was more than I first thought. The diff took a fair bit of time with a hammer to straighten the bend in the spring mount, then if you look at the upper mount, it was bent up, down and inside-out as well. I managed to straighten it out a bit. What alerted me to the top damage was the fact that the bag literally fell out as I jacked the car up today. The pin had come out but the air line was still attached.

So to anyone using pins to secure the spacers - I'd advise against it!

Will be a few weeks until I touch it next, I may bolt the other 3 spacers down as they are still on the car at present.

For Gary, sorry mate I can't get all heights, but I can tell you that ground to guard lip in highway height is 870mm (average). Front sits 10-15mm lower than the rear.

Cheers
Keithy

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Keithy, so sorry to hear of your dilemma after all the hard work! Just curious, did the unwanted dislocation only happen when in reverse?

Gary

Hi Keithy is this any help, i found this amongst heaps of the info ive researched as im also looking to lift my p38 2 inches

Bump Stop modifications:
Remove factory bumpstops. Tools: angle drill, a 5/16 drill bit, & 3/8 -16 tap.
New Bump stops: Engergy Suspension part #99101
Drill out center of factory bump stop, tap hole & screw in new bumpstop.

Have an image not sure how to insert.

Not sure what the reference pat is

watching with interest

Paul

Hi Keithy,
Just recently had some bump stops made up for Danmal P38
at a plastics engineering place here in Melbourne cost around $80 pair if I recall correctly worked a treat!
Sorry to hear about your spacer issue ive been wathing with interest to see how those dislocating mounts were going to work. Think it may be much safer to bolt them down as in the Hard Range ones we are using - no issue in that regards although the idea of dislocation sounds great the angle of the top mount would be the critical factor to allow relocation i would think! Hope it all works out well for you anyway.

The issue happened in both forward and reverse directions. It was only the right rear that did it too!

It is a shame about the 144's, for now ill chuck my old front shocks in the back until I've got 145's. If no interest ill keep them as emergency spares!

For bump stops I want to keep the vehicle as factory as I can. This means I would like to avoid drilling holes if I can, but also want the ability to return it to factory standard if I wanted. Ill go with the jeep ones, will order one (at $8 each I'd rather that than $80), and its a part I can get ordered in rather than custom made.

If the family gets a great share of me over the next day or so I might bolt the other spacers down and do the shock swap.

Cheers for the comments fellas!
Keithy

Are there any problems with running the standard Boge front shocks all round as others have done with a two inch lift? Other than im guessing there would be less travel compared to other shocks like T144 and T145s?

I'm hoping to do the same all round with the front Boges

Paul