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I was just watching one of the 4wdtv vids on here and saw a segment where they were fitting 35's to a GU and said with lift you can but need either a radius arm spacer kit or longer radius arms themselves to stop scrubbing and breaking guards, They did not however say how big the lift needs to be to start with? I run 33 MTZ's now and under big flex (for standard hight) it already scrubs. My question is, is a 2" lift enough with the Radius arms/ spacer kit enough to accomidate the 35's?????
Thanks Patroler's
Probably not. My brother in law has a 3" lift in his GQ and 35s were scrubbing a little bit. Could be different on a GU but I think it's pretty similar.
GU Wheel arches are Massive and Much bigger than a GQ. I run 35s with a 3" lift on my GUIV with no trouble at all. I have removed the front mudflaps but had to do that for the 33s and no lift. went to 35s and a 3" lift with Drop boxes instead of just spacers (same position though) and have only scraped once on a big hit
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So it can be done, no probs with scrubbing then? Did you just have 2" springs and shocks or coil spacers/ body blocks as well. I am put of by the price of a complete 3" kit and want to do it properly, thats why the questions about 2" lift. This way i can get a really good quality set up. I just seam to find deep ruts and i think 35's would get me through a lot of them.
Thanks, as they say a pic says a thousand words.
Ben81c my car runs an ome suspension with remote nitro charger cylinders giving it a total of a 2'' lift has no spacers or body blocks etc i ran these 35s for a couple of years without scrubbing or any other problem thereason i dont have 35s now is my car is a 2.8 and at the time i didnt have some of the mods i have now and the tyres just really didnt suit it so i went down to 33s which suit me better now anyway as im doing more touring than going out for a days 4wding in the bush ive put up some more pics i found when i firs tput them on and wanted to see how they would go
ill be puttin on some 35s on the weekend from a mates gu ill get some pics and see where it scrubs if any and let u know.
i have a 2" lift with no radius arm spacers .
im running a tyre equal to a 34 with a 2 inch lift with no spacers and it does not appear to go anywhere near rubbing so id imagine a 35 should clear. Especially on a gu