Thread: how hi can the disco go???

2" or 50mm seems to be the golden rule.

will 15x31x10.5 muddies fit with 2" lift

what happens at 3"

The golden rule applies to spring lift and the geometries of the driveline.

A 3" lift adverslyaffects the castor angle of the front wheels. It starts to make the steering vague at 2". The angle on the rear drive shaft relative to the pinion on the rear diff can put more strain on the rubber doughnut come universal causing premature failure of this bit.

This lift does not apply to tyre diameter. I don't think that 31's will be too much of a problem in terms of rubbing on the body work. It is particularly pertinant to the rear.

Body lift and guard cutting is another dimension.

Others can talk about this aspect as I still run with stock 29.5" wheel/tyre diameters.

There is some good oil on discoweb.org.

2 inch is the norm with out having to modify any other parts.

Over 2inch and you have to start looking at the castor angles drive shaft angles and everything else.

As to how high a disco can go, well I have seen a 7inch lift with 38's underneth, but a lot of cutting on the body and a lot of mony went into it.

This one is from northwestparts.com

I had 31's on my disco with 2 inch lift and had no probles at all

Adam

Originally posted by bigbugga
2 inch is the norm with out having to modify any other parts.

Over 2inch and you have to start looking at the castor angles drive shaft angles and everything else.

As to how high a disco can go, well I have seen a 7inch lift with 38's underneth, but a lot of cutting on the body and a lot of mony went into it.

This one is from northwestparts.com

My rangie is sitting about 6.5" over standard at the moment ops: ment to be about 4.5" I think the springs of that disco are the same as the ones currently under my Rangie
I tell you this your drivelines wont last long [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif[/img] I think 4" with cranked radius arms is the highest possible option - with this you should fit 33s and with some cutting of the guard you should fit 33s on hevily offset rims.

You can put 31s on a standard rangie and my uncle had 31s under his standard disco but they rubbed abit

Casterbased,

discoweb.org page with a brief summary of tyre sizes:

http://68.49.91.161/faq/tire.htm

cheers fellas, i want mine like the one in the pic

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