First of the mods

[Escudo boy]

getting excited, im paying for c33 laurell springs tomorro, and im gonna put ea falcon springs in the front of my scud, i read through the forums and everyone has different ideas on wat shocks i should put in, so i need some advise on wat shocks to use

[De-Ranged]

Pm weemsy off here we went through a heap of options with his truck he'll be able to give you the pro's and cons on them

Cheers Reece

[flyingbrick]

I'd also like to help Tom (Escudogirl) out by machining him up a set of body lift spacers.

can anyone here give me some measurements/link to a DIY or something showing measurements?

He's a bit low atm... as shown by this pic.



Thats a rock under his sill.

Just off the side of the picture is 3 out of 4 people laughing their asses off.

Tom was the one not laughing

[Swamped]

thats awesome...

[Escudo boy]

hahahahahahahaha i was waiting for this photo to end up on here, and its ESCUDO BOY!!!

[flyingbrick]

Come on barbie lets go party... arh arh arh yeaaaah.

-Nathan.

ps. I had no idea Vitaras came out with that shade of purple.



just pulling your tit btw. I'm here for you, tom.

when do you wanna throw these springs in? We should have a few days of beer and truck maintance at someones pad.

[Swamped]

Escudogirls Mums place

[flyingbrick]

Escudogirls Mums place

Reow.

[Escudo boy]

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!! ther is no smiley for "i just threw up in my mouth a little bit"

[flyingbrick]

Anyway.

If there is anyone in here other than us 3... I need some answers before i can help your sorry ass

I got under toms truck earlier tonight and had a perv at the rear A arm setup. I think Tom had a perv at me while i was lying there. Probably better than tom getting under the truck too. Hang on.. does an escudo pass as being a "truck"?

Definitions of truck on the Web:

* an automotive vehicle suitable for hauling

Definately a car.

Where was I......

Oh yeah. Had a look at the upper A arm on Toms rear axle. He mentioned that there needs to be a spacer made. I'm guessing its just a flat plate with 4 holes drilled?

Does anyone have some measurements between holes and thickness that his plate should be?

Toms a broken ass student (and i know what thats like!) so im trying to help out as much as I can with making the thing capable.

-Nathan

[Escudo boy]

hahahahaha, and it is a truck it can haul if u try

[Escudo boy]

ther is a photo of the spacer on 'weemsy escudo build' forum

[spanky]

first of all read through the cheap vitara lift thread on here, i did all of my mods for basically no money . do the springs and rear shocks, flip the top mounts of the front struts, remove sway bars, dont worry about the spacer on the a arm , i tryed it and found i lost travel on my ramp, dont worry about lowering your diff as you dont need to.remove the brackets that hold the hand brake cable to the rear arms until you can get some 5dr cables,even the std auto hubs will put up with a lot of abuse until you can get some manual ones, any thing else just ask,
vaughan

[suzookyman]

ah spanky what about brake lines? Al

[spanky]

i never changed the actual brake line as it attaches to the diff near the centre, if you do a bit of 4x4ing around water ,runny mud you will need to clean your rear drums all the time or convert to discs, i got sick of replacing my rear shoes every couple of hundred ks and disconnected them in the end, mine was off road only and had locked diffs front and rear so the brakes still worked good enough.cheers
vaughan

[flyingbrick]

dont worry about the spacer on the a arm , i tryed it and found i lost travel on my ramp,
vaughan

Wont the A arm end up sitting down on a really queer angle? Its quite short.....?

Is it possible to bind up the A arms ball joint when you lift it and its forced through too much of an angle?

I'll read through the cheap lift thread and work out what else we need to do

[ONOescudo]

I had to put in a spacer because after the suspension lift the a arm ball joint was knocking/over extending on small bumps on the road. Would expect it to break off over moderate terrain. The first one was a block of engineering plastic but I didn’t like the long bolts used to run through the spacer so I made this one. Two pieces of flat with square tube between. The spacer should be as high as the spring lift. Need a large hole in the top plate to allow for the ball joint nut.
Cheers MIKE.

[flyingbrick]

thanks thats what i'd have expected- snapping ball joints. Does anyone have dimensions for that square? I just need distances between holes.

=Nathan.

[spanky]

you wont snap the a arm joint, i tryed a spacer but found i lost travel on my ramp so i took it out, 3 years of hard off road abuse and it was still sweet, 2 other off road scudos in our club are the same and have had no trouble, build a ramp and try every mod you do cause some work some dont, on a swb you can get 620-630mm under one wheel and have other 3 on ground on a lwb you should get more, need pics of your flex, cheers vaughan

[flyingbrick]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_45lE_CQxE ( i could NOT make the YT tags work!)


right now flex is poor....(thats an understatement actually, lol!)

In the video is doug (swamped) and escudoboy. It got pretty stuck going downhill into this hole.

A locker or LSD would do HUUUUGE things for it.

Toms having trouble finding V6 springs for the front- anyone know of a set kicking around?

[Escudo boy]

i was wondering hu had the video from that trip, thats mean

[Escudo boy]

got some v6 springs in the pipe line now so as long no one purchases them off trademe, shud have them by next week, wen they arrive i will shoot down to auzzie spares and get me sum vn shocks and i will be ready to fit them

[flyingbrick]

bro thats awesome

ok.. so the list so far is what?

v6 springs front
flipped tophats front

nissan springs rear
vn springs rear
possibly A arm spacer (not using one seems rude..)

[Escudo boy]

its vn shocks, and i think we should make an a arm spacer and test it out and make the call to run it or not at the time, all i need to get now is diff locker and body lift blocks

[spanky]

here is a pic of mates scud , has nissan rear springs with commodore shocks, ea falcon front springs , top strut flip, is running 31/10.5/15s with no other mods or body lift, is efi 8 valve, has welded rear diff and no sway bar, still has broken nothing and gets a beating all the time as he lives 2mins from the bush,


vaughan

[Escudo boy]

thats awesome , dnt want to put ea's in the front coz i want to keep it street legal and ea's dnt fit without heating or cutting, cheers for the post

[Pico42]

thats awesome , dnt want to put ea's in the front coz i want to keep it street legal and ea's dnt fit without heating or cutting, cheers for the post

I understood that you can use cut springs as long as they remain captive during the full suspension movement range??

[Escudo boy]

o ok, well i got v6 escudo ones sorted out now, and they fit perfectly no risk of breaking the law

[flyingbrick]

OK, so.

Tom is just about to buy a body lift kit off trademe. Its 25mm (1", duh) and appears to be just a set of 6 plastic spacers.

Is it true that a set of 1" body lift spacers does not require anything else to get things working? factory bolts/washers/nuts are all used?

If so- Flag paying 150$ + postage, tom.

I've got the next 3 weeks at tech but once im back at work i can rip you out a set for $100 from uhumpe (Ultra high molecular weight polyetheline or something... All i know is that its real hard, lol!)

So work out what that kit includes and I'll help you save some student allowance.

[Escudo boy]

the idea of 1" is that u can use the standard bolts, and i think u need ten blocks tho dont quote me on that