I'll upload pix later.

I have a 2002 Suzuki GV 5spd. I put HD OME front springs on it with OME struts, OME springs and 1" spacers on the rear with crown vic shocks.

I tried to get the metric 30" bfg's and was told they were discontinued due to the market so I bought 30x9.50x15 KM2's. To fit them I used Samurai wheels with the round holes, and had to use spacers up front with caliper grinding. The rear I ran without spacers.

I regeared it from the 4.30's to 5.13's and it is perfect off-road. We ran Black Bear pass, Imogene, Cork Screw Gulch, California Gulch, and Engineers Pass here in Colorado without a problem.

The 5.13's geared it lower than stock which I feel is the way it should have felt stock on the road. Off-Road I have no problem with gearing even in the toughest situations. I could have used 4.88's to bring it to stock gearing but I wanted a little more considering that there are no 4:1's for the 5spd GV's.

When I get the time and extra trans and tcase I'm going to make an intermediate shaft between the GV trans so I can run kick 4:1's. The GV kick case has a long input shaft from the input gear to reach onto the trans which is a toyota family transmission.

The only problem I had was when we were going over engineer pass I kept hearing a creaking noise in the right front, and could not figure out what the hell it was. When we got home I started looking closer, jacked up the front, and found the strut had broke inside. I called ARB about the strut and said they never heard of one going bad, so I emailed them pix, called a few times and said they would warranty it. They said it was because I wasn't running a bumper and winch with the HD springs. I found that funny, because even if I was running a winch and bumper the front suspension would still fully extend in wheeling conditions.

The OME suspension is awesome riding. The only complaint is the bad strut chopped up my nice BFG's when it went bad.

So far the new strut is going well, but I haven't wheeled it since.

BTW to fit 30's on only 1.5 to 2"s of lift I got I had to cut the plastic fenders at the bottom corner of the front wheel wells near the floor board. I had to use a bfh to clear the tires, and trim the front bumper. I did not want to do a body lift.

I love how this thing wheels

Sounds like one hell of a Suzuki!

I put in a "Jeff's lift" and along with some massive 1.25" spacers and managed to fit 235/75R15's on aftermarket 15x7 rims. Unfortunately the tires still do rub, even after some minor trimming. I don't really want to trim more, but I'm also not crazy about the idea of installing a body lift.

I'd love to see some close ups of your front wheel wells to see where you made your modifications.

Was the re-gearing project difficult? My 2.0L 5spd is managing with the 29's, but down the road i might be looking into the 5.13 swap.

The gears in the rear were drop in with the kick third member. The front I had to swap the ring and pinion into the GV third member because the 5spds have the steel from housings. I used the GV carrier because I didn't have time to source parts to use the kick front carrier. Also while the front diff was out I welded the air actuator to the locked position and used kick hubs.

I'll try to get pix of the trimming and hammering.

lets see them pics!

Your truck looks good!  I'm a big fan of using the 5.5" rims simply because they allow you to use more of the stock fender well without getting into the fender and (obviously) allow you to use at least a 30" tire.

looks like a real nice rig, I would love to see some pics of the build in progress if possible. I really like your approach at gaining clearance with mild lift and narrow rims.  Definitely gives me more to consider for mine.

Thanks for the reply , I'm working on the front bumper now.

Got the wife removing it


Hope to make more progress today, working on a 2" coil spacer lift for my dads 4door kick

Got started on our bumper, just the top part. They wife did most of the bending, and I did the measuring, cutting and welding.



Hope to get more done today , wish I had a winch to incorporate right now, so I hope to do my best to pre-plan for one.

Also broke a front passenger c/v shaft so I need to get that fixed too lol. Anyone have one they want to sell?

Got the bottom hoop done, still have to finish brackets on the frame horns, and much much more.

Sorry for the first pic, was trying to brighten it up, and playing with an app on my phone lol.


Next pictures were taken by a camera mod on my phone that really lit it up, before it was very dark and could not see under the top tube except black.



The bottom tube was 3 pieces of tubing. Bent the outers first, then found a scrap tube to fit the bottom, then sleeved, welded and blended. I'll have better pictures of it soon as I ran out of time. Blew a Bfg mud today on the way to my dads , so that cut time short. Plus I've been building a 4 door kick for him.