Michael's V8Y62

[Plasnart]

I do some stop start driving but not alot, most of my driving is steady speed from 40-100kmh and gentle acceleration.

To a certain extent I agree with your feelings about setting up a suspension and yes the Y62 is a totaly differnt beast compared to a GU/GQ (or live axle Toyotas like my 75 series Troopy). For the rears I think I'll save up for airbags with automatic ride height adjustments. After doing some reading after my last post I don't know what I'm going to do with the front apart from more research.

It will take some planning, I also want to fit a winch and don't want to go through this twice. I'll keep posting my thoughts and look forward to your input.

My only comment really is regards to your requirement for an electric winch. I have had winches for years and only ever used one for recovery on four occasions. Twice were hand winch recoveries before I had an electric winch, and twice with an electric winch. So that's 4 times in 17 years of 4x4ing I've needed winch recovery. No, I'm not into "extreme" offroading but have done a lot of advanced tracks I suppose you could say and evidently nearly every time I could work myself out of the predicament without a winch. I don't plan to install one into the Y62.