spring spacers, fixing in place?

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spring spacers, fixing in place?

Postby 42south » Mon Feb 06, 2012 9:05 pm

Hi Guys
I am going to put spring spacers in my Safari which has standard springs in it.
Whilst doing research I found one post that suggested fixing them in place using builders adhesive and electrical tape, to prevent them falling out with full spring extension.
I am not an extreme 4wdriver and am wondering if this is really necessary?
Any thoughts on the matter would be appreciated.
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Re: spring spacers, fixing in place?

Postby coxsy » Mon Feb 06, 2012 9:11 pm

mine stayed in on standard hight and with a 75mm sagged hight
89 safari, pto winch, 33x15 simexs. sliders,75mm lift . turbo intercoolered

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Re: spring spacers, fixing in place?

Postby 42south » Tue Feb 07, 2012 9:55 am

Hi Coxsy
Seeing how you have them fitted to yours, I have a query. Is it difficult to tell which way up they should fit in? the front ones have a sort of extended ridge/lip in the top and bottom, which i assume is some kind of locating thing.
Any ideas.
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Re: spring spacers, fixing in place?

Postby coxsy » Wed Feb 08, 2012 9:05 pm

its been awhile since i fitted them back in and so no real help for you, and checked 4wdbits site for a referance but same pic for front and rear :roll:
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Re: spring spacers, fixing in place?

Postby 42south » Wed Mar 07, 2012 7:57 am

Hi Guys
I've got the spring spacers in place and they have got the desired result 30mm lift.
It took the garage around 4 hours to do the lot, apparently they did have to use a spring compressor, as I have new springs fitted all round.
I did have one interesting thing happen on my first long trip. Coming off a metal road onto tarseal in 4WD high, I suddenly got a case of the often mentioned death wobbles at around 80-90km going downhill on the tarseal. I braked to a stop had a look around and found nothing out of place so continued on, and never had another occurence. There was probalbly a bump coming off the metal to tarseal, but nothing much.
Any ideas, i was thinking perhaps a wheel balance and alignment. This is the only suspension mod on the vehicle apart from new springs and rancho 9000 shocks.
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Re: spring spacers, fixing in place?

Postby zephyrheaven » Wed Mar 07, 2012 6:14 pm

Have a look at a good quality steering damper, death wobble could be a load of things but Ive cured a few with a damper

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Re: spring spacers, fixing in place?

Postby 42south » Fri Mar 09, 2012 9:35 pm

Hi
Did you use an aftermarket large damper like this

http://www.4wdbits.co.nz/ProductDetails ... uctID=1121

or stick with the factory one?
1991 SWB GQY60 TD42 safari.
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