People have been asking me about how we fit large tires on our vehicles, and everyone is concerned about body lift. I believe that body lift is the classical American way of fitting tires. This was also the case in Iceland 20 years ago but now we try to avoid all lift as much as possible but cut and trim the fenders and add new flares instead. In many cases rear axles are moved back a few cm.
This gives excelent road handling contrary to the American high lift approach.
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Yesterday I had a question about this from a member of the forum and this is my answare:
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, Helv, Helvetica, Sans">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, Helv, Helvetica, Sans"> and another question since you have 35" tires. do u get good flexing with 35" and does it rub any. do you have any kind of problem with them being that big? </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, Helv, Helvetica, Sans">No problems at all. Some light rub may be possible in very extreme situations but that is nothing to worry about. Road handling is not effected or even improved in some cases (depending on what kind of tires and rims you had before) and power loss is barely noticable.
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, Helv, Helvetica, Sans">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, Helv, Helvetica, Sans"> does it rub on the inside of the frame or plastics any being that big or did you get a big off set for the rims?
</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, Helv, Helvetica, Sans">There is no rub there, I dont have figures for the offset but it is not much may be 1 - 2 cm (1/2 - 3/4 inch)
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, Helv, Helvetica, Sans">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, Helv, Helvetica, Sans"> and one more, the one u sent me, is that 2 different pajeros, cause i noticed on one side it has different rims, so i wasnt sure if i was lookin at the same one.... either way it looks good, but since u said he had a 3cm body lift, how did he do it and if its possible, what did he use to do all that, and what did he do to lift the bumpers so it wouldnt look like a body lift... thanx man. bye
angelo
</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, Helv, Helvetica, Sans">There are 2 different Pajeros on the pictures, one (the darkgreen) with 3 cm bodylift and the other without it.
For the bodylift you need 3 cm fiber or nylon shims and longer bolts. The bumpers are raised by welding fasteners to the frame and the radiator is lowered. Then you have to losen up some hoses and wires and fasten them again to prevent tension on them. All this is rather simple and inexpensive.
But my advise is not to do the bodylift, if you want more room for your tires, cut more from the fenders and use wider flares. That is the Icelandic way.
The red Pajero has 38" tires and very little lift.
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The pictures are at:
http://www.laugar.is/konni/K.
