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 Posted: Sun Dec 29, 2013 22:50 Post subject: SWB cheep/free mods? removing stuff for a better look =) |
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| hey everyone got a swb trooper...looking to to abit of green laning etc....just wanna know of sum good cheep/free mods for a beter look etc....removing stuff?? any suggestions??? or pictures....the obvs is wheels and tyres and a snorkel kit for starters =) |
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| Posted: Sun Dec 29, 2013 22:52 Post subject: |
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2" lift is cheap enough 
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yep, 2" spacers for the rear, someone on fleabuy selling various heights at the moment, the just wind up the torsion bars to lift the front, dead easy 'stage 1' lift 
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Luving the 300c mate  when I brought my first trooper 5years ago I got myself a set of All terrian tyres 265/75 16 gives a bit of a lift over the 245s you probably have on at the moment and they are still narrow enough to fit the standard 6j rims you have I then got some 2 inch spring spacers to sit on top of the springs £50-£60 quid mark and wind up the torsion bars to lift the front end to suit. I got rid of my side steps as they tend to get bent and hooked up on rocks as they lower your ground clearance and are not very strong, I used this setup for best part of 4 years laning and off-roading with the itoc club. my ole 3.0ltr is a well known club motor, the misses now has this truck as her daily and I have another 1 with some bigger mods
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| DAVID's J99P wrote: |
| Luving the 300c mate when I brought my first trooper 5years ago I got myself a set of All terrian tyres 265/75 16 gives a bit of a lift over the 245s you probably have on at the moment and they are still narrow enough to fit the standard 6j rims you have I then got some 2 inch spring spacers to sit on top of the springs £50-£60 quid mark and wind up the torsion bars to lift the front end to suit. I got rid of my side steps as they tend to get bent and hooked up on rocks as they lower your ground clearance and are not very strong, I used this setup for best part of 4 years laning and off-roading with the itoc club. my ole 3.0ltr is a well known club motor, the misses now has this truck as her daily and I have another 1 with some bigger mods |
cheers fella thats my daily runner =).....yeah 245 at min on it.......how hard is it to put the spaacers in? and how do you wind up torsion bars? had a look at side steps cant see the bolts tho?lol can i just cut them off haha...yeah am very new to this off roading i just wanna get the best i can out of what i have as you see i can do some good mods on cars but trucks is another game lol |
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I borrowed some spring clamps but you can buy them from evilbay for £12 delivered. clamp spring compressing it as small as pos, Jack rear of car up so shocks fully extended if your lucky the spacer should just about slide in on top of spring, you may have to undo one end of the shock and remove bolt to give a bit extra room. repeat for other side, rear done. under front seats (under truck ) are 2 27mm nuts at the end of the torsion bars (drown in wd40 for a couple of days and eat many weetabix on the chosen morning) 6 or 7 full turns = 2 inch I measured ground to bottom of middle of front wheel arch wound up measured to around 2 inch each side drove round the block to allow for suspension to settle remeasured and adjusted, front done. side steps normally are bolted on sort of D clamp over chassis rail
When I first got the truck
still bog standard but without side steps on very first laning day in darbyshire
dont buy rubber type spacers but this is where they sit (now got metal ones on now)
how the truck looked on 2inch spacers and 265 75 at2 genneral grabbers doing stangage ridge derbyshire
mild off-road course and pretty much how truck looks today but I have those rims on my 3.1 shod with 285 77 16
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Get rid of the side steps ....they won't last 2 mins
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Get rid of the side steps ....they won't last 2 mins
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well let me tell you what ive been up to....got a new bonnet from a tdi with scoop...as am using it for off road ive gone with a cheep paint job on her,,,here it is! probly not for everyones taste but ive gone "some sort of camo" using spray paints and local bush n trees...i think it looks the part =) also on with trying to make a snorkel...just need to know where to cut the wing
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looks like a bit of fun
What's the symbol on the grill?
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| looks good what sort of underbody protection u got? |
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eviltrooper666
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| chikoroll wrote: |
looks like a bit of fun
What's the symbol on the grill? |
the symbol is a famous stars and straps belt buckle....last names fenn i just use the "f" as my logo...on both my cars..may be odd but i like to be different =) |
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| griffter wrote: |
| looks good what sort of underbody protection u got? |
standard mate... |
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got my hands on some 265/75/16 tyres.....chunky next to old ones.....no lift on the truck but think it looks good....
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