senor honda
12-28-2007, 09:16 PM
Someone asks:
I'm trying to lower my Jimmy as low as possible and for as cheap as possible, any ideas?
Lowering block kits work for many American vehicles
that have your type rear suspension. I would get the kit that generally lowers the back end the same amount as the front is lowered.
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To lower the front, the 4wd already has camber adjusters built in, and the 2wd uses shims to adjust camber as well as castor. Your vehicle is easier to adjust than Front wheel drives in that respect.
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I would carefully measure the front suspension
and lower it as much as the stock adjustments will allow.............considering the speed bump height of the roads you drive on, the driveways that you might bottom out on, and that high-speed pavement change on "you-know-which-road". :wink:
Those things determine maximum lowness without beating up the bottom of your Jimmy.
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For front springs, you can buy shorter springs from
General Motors or cut your stock springs to the same length as the shorter GM springs, once again carefully measuring.......
.........I seem to be the only one on TR that can carefully measure and cut springs without them flopping around, without beating up the suspension, and without eating the tires.
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More costly ways to set the front end down would be to buy dropped spindles, or to buy dropped lower A-Arms, and keep your stock front springs as is.
A more costly way to set the back end down is to
notch/fabricate some frame pieces so the rear axle can still clear the frame.
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After you drive it awhile, we can talk about
your particular driving style, and ways to tune
the suspension, to increase/decrease oversteer/understeer
in the turns. -Bob
I'm trying to lower my Jimmy as low as possible and for as cheap as possible, any ideas?
Lowering block kits work for many American vehicles
that have your type rear suspension. I would get the kit that generally lowers the back end the same amount as the front is lowered.
-----------------------
To lower the front, the 4wd already has camber adjusters built in, and the 2wd uses shims to adjust camber as well as castor. Your vehicle is easier to adjust than Front wheel drives in that respect.
------------------------
I would carefully measure the front suspension
and lower it as much as the stock adjustments will allow.............considering the speed bump height of the roads you drive on, the driveways that you might bottom out on, and that high-speed pavement change on "you-know-which-road". :wink:
Those things determine maximum lowness without beating up the bottom of your Jimmy.
-----------------------------
For front springs, you can buy shorter springs from
General Motors or cut your stock springs to the same length as the shorter GM springs, once again carefully measuring.......
.........I seem to be the only one on TR that can carefully measure and cut springs without them flopping around, without beating up the suspension, and without eating the tires.
----------------------------------
More costly ways to set the front end down would be to buy dropped spindles, or to buy dropped lower A-Arms, and keep your stock front springs as is.
A more costly way to set the back end down is to
notch/fabricate some frame pieces so the rear axle can still clear the frame.
--------------------------------
After you drive it awhile, we can talk about
your particular driving style, and ways to tune
the suspension, to increase/decrease oversteer/understeer
in the turns. -Bob