Dann's Lift Kit

RSR 555 · Post by **RSR 555** » Thu Nov 18, 2010 2:12 pm

TOONGA wrote:sadly it is what the west coast needs but finding the collateral/backer to setup up a small business to concentrate on this sort of endeavour is nearly impossible

TOONGA

Yessir.. I'm happy to make them for friends and members but not as a fulltime business

YouTube · Post by **El_Freddo** » Sat Nov 20, 2010 1:04 am

RSR 555 wrote:Here you go Dann Just to tease you

WOW! Does that scream "LOOK AT ME! LOOK AT ME!" to anyone else? I hope you've got "king spring yellow" on that paul, otherwise it might look out of place under an L with raised kings

Good looking kit though!

RSR 555 wrote:Well we started fitting it yesterday (first 3" kit I've ever done) and we just finished today and went for a test drive.. The lift looks huge and drives great ( other than the front wheel bearings ) so I was quite surprised to see the effect of the combination of 3" and 2" blocks.. it really worked well. Still need to do some more R&R but overall I'm pleased...

I'm guessing the 2 inch blocks are on the gearbox crossmember/radius rod plate. I've got this setup on Ruby Scoo. I reckon I need to extend the radius rods - amount unknown - to push the front wheels forward back to their original position or a little further. This will help keep the wheel away from the fire wall when turning. Other suspension reasons for this have not been thought of so no answers there about that one...

Cheers

Bennie

RSR 555 · Post by **RSR 555** » Sat Nov 20, 2010 1:11 pm

El_Freddo wrote:WOW! Does that scream "LOOK AT ME! LOOK AT ME!" to anyone else? I hope you've got "king spring yellow" on that paul, otherwise it might look out of place under an L with raised kings

Good looking kit though!

I'm guessing the 2 inch blocks are on the gearbox crossmember/radius rod plate. I've got this setup on Ruby Scoo. I reckon I need to extend the radius rods - amount unknown - to push the front wheels forward back to their original position or a little further. This will help keep the wheel away from the fire wall when turning. Other suspension reasons for this have not been thought of so no answers there about that one...

Cheers

Bennie

Cheers Bennie

It does jump out at you but it looks awesome on the car.

Yeah the 2" are on the radius rod bracket and the rear K frame.. all to try and keep the ground clearance under the car to a max. Alex, Dave and Matt have given me some good ideas to modify on the MK2 kit and I might even look into the radius rod lengthening but I ready didn't get any feel like it was back too far? Need to check with Dann after he's been a bit of 4WDing

AndrewT · Post by **AndrewT** » Sat Nov 20, 2010 2:14 pm

There should be plenty of really old threads discussing radius rod lengthening in detail too. Some people have had success with creating adjustable ones with threaded rod, others have tips on what radius rods to pinch from what donor cars (a ford of some sort I think) which are the appropriate length longer.

Post by **TOONGA** » Sat Nov 20, 2010 4:20 pm

I read this ages ago on Phizinza's subaru brumby/brat pages

http://offroadingsubarus.com/83sedan_radiusrods.html

they used a toyota crown radius rod

TOONGA

RSR 555 · Post by **RSR 555** » Sat Nov 20, 2010 8:56 pm

Pics for Dann's Kit.. Looks magic and lots of clearance under the centre of the car

http://s132.photobucket.com/albums/q4/W ... =slideshow

RSR 555 · Post by **RSR 555** » Sat Nov 20, 2010 8:57 pm

AndrewT wrote:There should be plenty of really old threads discussing radius rod lengthening in detail too. Some people have had success with creating adjustable ones with threaded rod, others have tips on what radius rods to pinch from what donor cars (a ford of some sort I think) which are the appropriate length longer.

TOONGA wrote:I read this ages ago on Phizinza's subaru brumby/brat pages

http://offroadingsubarus.com/83sedan_radiusrods.html

they used a toyota crown radius rod

TOONGA

Cheers.. thanks guys

Dann · Post by **Dann** » Wed Dec 08, 2010 11:12 pm

Hey guys
just thought i'd pop the convo seen as it's my lift kit =P, and say thanks heaps to Paul and glen for tall the hard work done to it.
Very happy with lift.
just before and after photo from when i first got her :P

RSR 555 · Post by **RSR 555** » Wed Dec 08, 2010 11:39 pm

No probs Dann.. I hope you can drop into the shop before xmas.. so I can go over the whole car with the spanners

and I want to try and get that rear mount made

Dann · Post by **Dann** » Wed Dec 08, 2010 11:42 pm

Yer no worries just tell us wen you back and yer might pop down then

RSR 555 · Post by **RSR 555** » Thu Dec 09, 2010 12:03 am

Back on the 17th and ready to go fishing, camping and 4wding at Wedge Is. I'm looking at going on the 27th and staying a couple of nights

guyph_01 · Post by **guyph_01** » Thu Dec 09, 2010 1:59 am

Good to see its finally on the car mate:) Now we can go back and do some more dammage at the powerlines:p
Paul is the man with all those things, specially with installing liftkits. Haha, i know, i had a bad experience when trying to install a lift kit on my mate liberty, remmeber Paul? hahahahah.

Anyway i'll definately be up for some more 4x4 when i get back, and if we can fix the brumby quickly, pretty sure my bro would also be keen:)

RSR 555 · Post by **RSR 555** » Thu Dec 09, 2010 3:10 am

guyph_01 wrote:Good to see its finally on the car mate:) Now we can go back and do some more dammage at the powerlines:p
Paul is the man with all those things, specially with installing liftkits. Haha, i know, i had a bad experience when trying to install a lift kit on my mate liberty, remmeber Paul? hahahahah.

Anyway i'll definately be up for some more 4x4 when i get back, and if we can fix the brumby quickly, pretty sure my bro would also be keen:)

Yes I remember the special band-aid

Dann · Post by **Dann** » Thu Dec 09, 2010 11:08 am

sounds good i'm keen, only after the final touches are done to my car

Dean.nabbe · Post by **Dean.nabbe** » Wed Jul 02, 2014 9:48 pm

are you still making these kits? if so, how much for an 87 Brumby?