Wanting to put lift and tires on LR3

[USAFbuckeye]

Maybe this has already been discussed, but what are the long-term consequences for extending the air bags beyond there design limit, not to mention the draw on the compressor?

 

[Houm_WA]

I believe the consequence for trying to go beyond their limit is a suspension fault and a dumping back to Normal Height. As far as I know, the current method of modifying the sensor arms allows you to go to what once was "Super Extended Mode" and that's it. If you mess around and hold the toggle with your foot on the brake while in that mode (which would just be Extended Mode in the rod-mod definition) then you'll get a fault.

I'm not sure that was very clear...but at the end of the day the air bags are still working within their original parameters with the rod-mod and nobody has ever breached that limit.

Moving on, I'd like to hear more about the lift that Nathan's post refers to. That picture looked like an LR3 in Extended Mode sitting next to an LR3 in Normal Mode, although that's not what it purports. To say that it can go higher is nutty! Spacers? Where would they go? There are no coils or leaf springs so where the heck would the spacers go in that sort of lift?

 

[duckdive]

Yeah, I would think you could only go so high with these trucks. I think if we
start putting too much lift on them the wheels will start to bow inward. I have
noticed this with the rod-mod when in new extended mode.

 

[Houm_WA]

I'm not sure I've ever been in new extended mode...well, not with the MT/Rs and the rod-mod. Back when I had the Coopers I forced the LR3 into Super Extended height (which is of course = New Extended Height)....didn't pay attention to the tires; it was brief.

If there is a better lift than the rod-mod that people want to run then more power to them. I'm very happy with the rod-mod mostly because it uses the inherent systems of the truck and it's removable.

 

[LROffroad]

There is another method for lifting the truck. Rovertyme has a spacer lift (in testing), and SafariGard has just produced a beta of something similar I think.

http://www.sclr.org/roverboard.html?func=view&catid=1&id=1077

Sweet, go RoverTym, I know they just did that lift for 3 LR3's for LRL Magazine to do an excursion with.....

As far as tires go, I was checking out Interco the other night and I might buy 2 sets of the new M-16 tires. They have a tire that is 32.59" tall and it is for 18" wheels. The M-16 is a pretty aggressive tire... Check um out and let me know what you think.

 

[umbertob]

That's interesting about RTE. A RRS owner on our forum was at the recent SCARR meeting in Texas and was given a "Lift Kit" prototype for his Sport by the folks at RoverTym - who also attended the meet - to try out... It's a set of shortened rods. Perhaps they have abandoned the idea of the rods since that time and are working on something else.

 

[Houm_WA]

...I don't see any downside to the rods, nor do I see how or why a different lift would be better, at least not to the point where I'd speak negatively about the current option like the guy on the forum that Nathan linked above. The rod-mod is a perfectly good option...

 

[duckdive]

...I don't see any downside to the rods, nor do I see how or why a different lift would be better, at least not to the point where I'd speak negatively about the current option like the guy on the forum that Nathan linked above. The rod-mod is a perfectly good option...

Yep, no problems with mine and I run it full time.

 

[duckdive]

Extended mode with rod-mod. This is as high as it gets. 31.7" BFG's.

 

[LROffroad]

Extended mode with rod-mod. This is as high as it gets. 31.7" BFG's.

WOW! Nice looking LR3!