Sway bar goes on but what kit are u using?

I just made soem spacers out of UHMW and it's a 1.75" front and 2.25" rear. At the angle of the lower control arm in the front, the sway bar is too fat towards the outside to fit back in the contrl arm hole. Can you also measure your height front and rear across the center of the wheel to the bottom of the fender flare?

Thanks

WOW lol 1.75 do not put that one there ur gonna be running crazy camber issues alog with coil bind.

It's already in there, and the camber is a little off

Waa a 1.75 spacers is gonna push those control arms right in lol

What size spacers did you guys install in the front?

again here I am re-hashing old threads

but I noticed that in installing JDMCRX's lift (same as mine)

that you guys had to grind away at the "spindle"

well I'm at that point, where I grinded close to 6mm of my top strut bolt hole (towards the strut) and still cannot push the knuckle or (spindle) in to have a good enough camber

So how much do I need to grind off this spindle? I'ma gunna borrow a buddy's garage and his angle grinder to do this job

Oh and.... I never was able to get the strut bar above back on
Also should I remove the sway bar?

Boo.

I just used adjustable camber bolts that I got from Summit Racing.  No grinding here.

The wife drives like a maniac sometimes and the swaybar was gone over a year ago, before we even had the lift.  It rides better with just a hint more lean in the corners.  Try driving with one end disconnected and see how you like it.  If you don't mind it gone, take it off.  If it scares you (you ninny ) just reconnect the end and you're safe.

Alrighty... so today
I ripped apart the front end, and I "gound" down the spindle to maximize the use of the 6mm I ground at the top bolt of the strut

I pushed the spindle in and lined up the bolts to the maximum of the now ovaled 6 mm that were ground

and my camber is "slightly" corrected

I might... have to look to grinding both the strut hole and spindle some more, but it's good enough for now

So... i'm going to completely cut apart my strut bar and re-weld it to fit to be an actual "intragal" part of my suspension
Seeing how our trucklets use a control arm bbottem but no "a" arm at the top w/ our Car like strut configuration
The strut bar really really is important

I left the sway bar in, no harm for now but yea whenever I'll get to removing it I will

cool man, funny we are doing pretty much the same thing to our trucks the past few weekends. I got my camber corrected with a bit of filing and an angle grinder on the knuckle. I also took off my sway-bar to see how it would handle... must say I was surprised to learn that I don't think I'll miss it.

next up.. i'm thinking i might order some black series 84 16 inch wheels with 2.5 inch backspacing from Rocky Road Outfitters: http://www.rocky-road.com/wheels.html

That'll be sweet

did you figure the size you wanted to go for tires?
I'm waiting for some stock GV rims, hopefully tuesday, and likely will have to  "mod" the front bumper

My plans are this from this point:

shortly:
install the 245/75/16 MTR tires and see how things go
get some front hubs ASAP as we now will be driving w/ a bit of CV flex at all times
Pick up a snorkel (maybe from VTTR), and the yellow box to adjust the speed (for my fiancee)
buy -> install the RRO body lift w/ some of their rock rails
Fab up some armour and likely get some kind of a winch mount bumper

later:
I plan on keeping the GV rims, and running some 235/85/16s (i'm a huge fan of tall skinnies and these will measure 32 x 9.25)
Then the stock gearing will then "have" to be changed, and I will see if I can grab a 5.12 R&P from the Automatic 2.0L
At the same time, I'll throw in the LSD from Calmini and a front ARB auto locker
(only thing stopping me from doing that now is $$$$)

As I do not have a stock roof rack and I really want a "removable" thule safari rack, I will be looking around and around at the wreckers for some stock bars (unless someone can advise where to find some)

In regards to the suspension, I think that w/ the coil spacers lift I have installed so far coupled w/ the RRO 2" bodly lift should give me adiquate clearance for what I want to do

However I will be looking into getting a "serious" suspension lift from our little shop around here called Zukination who is currently custom fabbing up a suspenion only based 4.5" lift (no spacers, all custom shocks\struts, progressive coils, drop brackets, drive shaft spacers etc... however it's really in beta at this time, and I hope to hear back within the next few months

well, i think the suspension lift is done! now for tires etc etc etc.

So far this is what I look like:



As you can tell my rear doesn't sit quite as tall as Ngrovers. However I have picked up the same spacers to fit underneath the coil to give me another 1" in the back (we'll have to work on it shortly before the snow comes)

Here is a pic of my front end of which the top strut bolt was oval'd 6mm, and the knuckle was slightly grounded to accomodate
The camber is still slightly postive, but not bad, this pic isn't fair as my parking lot right now is ridiculously uneven

both trucks looking good guys!  the back ends might seem a little low by the quick glance but mine was the same when i measured the back end was not lower, it's just the wheel wells....   for the rear i removed the spring isolator and added a 'heep coil spacer' which lowrezolution hooked me up with that measured between 5/8's & 3/4 inches.  the back end looks better now.  ( i know, some pics and write up soon...........) i'm running 31's on stock rims and since i have been slacking and not yet extended the rear bumptstops this helped with the very minor tire scrub i have on the highway with weight in the back..  the parking brake however is showing some strain with this and the body lift.  the parking brake light only goes off once in a while, soon as i'm on any angle the parking brake light is on..  i cannot add any more lift without addressing this problem.  r3cc0s, you should be safe adding another inch to the back end.  if the brake is strained just play around with the cable mounts..

Personally this little 3/4" piece that I picked up is just for asthetic purposes
We intend on looking for some XL7 springs for the rear to replace the current stock ones

I should be getting my Rims tomorrow, so I'm "hoping" that I can have my 245/75/16" MTRs mounted tomorrow

& if required, well I'll send away an order for a set of front wheel spacers and a body lift