[Scrawny]

Rusho wrote:

Hopefully you didn't pay too much for the piles of crap. Cut your loses and start again

That's a bit harsh! They'll make good paper weights and door stops.....

[swifty_ano]

Scrawn wrote:

Rusho wrote:

Hopefully you didn't pay too much for the piles of crap. Cut your loses and start again

That's a bit harsh! They'll make good paper weights and door stops.....

What makes them crap?

[Rusho]

Scrawn wrote:

Rusho wrote:

Hopefully you didn't pay too much for the piles of crap. Cut your loses and start again

That's a bit harsh! They'll make good paper weights and door stops.....

[Bruce]

Rusho wrote:

Hopefully you didn't pay too much for the piles of crap. Cut your loses and start again

x2

[swifty_ano]

Bruce wrote:

Rusho wrote:

Hopefully you didn't pay too much for the piles of crap. Cut your loses and start again

x2

Like the wife's gonna let me spend another $200 passh... You all live in a fantasy world

[Fatzook]

swifty_ano wrote:

Scrawn wrote:

Rusho wrote:

Hopefully you didn't pay too much for the piles of crap. Cut your loses and start again

That's a bit harsh! They'll make good paper weights and door stops.....

What makes them crap?

Its not a complete kit. Its a home made attempt at a body lift, and a poor one at that. For under $300 there are plenty of options for a decent body lift kit. For that money you get instructions, all new blocks, high tensile bolts, washers etc.

A body lift kit still has to hold the body to the chassis. You think its a good idea to cheap out on incomplete home made junk?

Just Cruising sells a Kit, and so will TSOR as of next week. Thats 2 options on AZ alone! Ebay has a few more, and I believe you can get decent ones from yanky land too.

[Rusho]

swifty_ano wrote:

Bruce wrote:

Rusho wrote:

Hopefully you didn't pay too much for the piles of crap. Cut your loses and start again

x2

Like the wife's gonna let me spend another $200 passh... You all live in a fantasy world

Ask for your money back, he robbed you blind

[swifty_ano]

Rusho wrote:

swifty_ano wrote:

Bruce wrote:

Rusho wrote:

Hopefully you didn't pay too much for the piles of crap. Cut your loses and start again

x2

Like the wife's gonna let me spend another $200 passh... You all live in a fantasy world

Ask for your money back, he robbed you blind

My bad. I meant $200 ontop of what I paid.

[Fatzook]

swifty_ano wrote:

Rusho wrote:

swifty_ano wrote:

Bruce wrote:

Rusho wrote:

Hopefully you didn't pay too much for the piles of crap. Cut your loses and start again

x2

Like the wife's gonna let me spend another $200 passh... You all live in a fantasy world

Ask for your money back, he robbed you blind

My bad. I meant $200 ontop of what I paid.

What did you pay?

[swifty_ano]

Obviously too much. Half that

[Fatzook]

swifty_ano wrote:

Obviously too much. Half that

And all you got was 8 lousy chunks of aluminium?

[Bruce]

Fatzook wrote:

swifty_ano wrote:

Scrawn wrote:

Rusho wrote:

Hopefully you didn't pay too much for the piles of crap. Cut your loses and start again

That's a bit harsh! They'll make good paper weights and door stops.....

What makes them crap?

Its not a complete kit. Its a home made attempt at a body lift, and a poor one at that. For under $300 there are plenty of options for a decent body lift kit. For that money you get instructions, all new blocks, high tensile bolts, washers etc.

A body lift kit still has to hold the body to the chassis. You think its a good idea to cheap out on incomplete home made junk?

Just Cruising sells a Kit, and so will TSOR as of next week. Thats 2 options on AZ alone! Ebay has a few more, and I believe you can get decent ones from yanky land too.

Correct Peter.
Really don't put that crap in.
Either save a few weeks and get a kit with full instructions from Just_Cruizin or from TSOR.
Just_Cruizin's kits I know come with FULL Step by step instructions as I'm sure TSOR will do when they come online.

[swifty_ano]

Fatzook wrote:

swifty_ano wrote:

Obviously too much. Half that

And all you got was 8 lousy chunks of aluminium?

Poly

[Fatzook]

swifty_ano wrote:

Fatzook wrote:

swifty_ano wrote:

Obviously too much. Half that

And all you got was 8 lousy chunks of aluminium?

Poly

Fuck man you got hosed!!!!

Fuck knows what grade they are! They have no crush tubes, and they have been hacksawed to fit. Could be fucken boat rollers for all we know.

Go knock on his door and ask for your money back mate. You paid 20x their worth, and ended up with anything BUT a body lift.

[swifty_ano]

Fatzook wrote:

swifty_ano wrote:

Fatzook wrote:

swifty_ano wrote:

Obviously too much. Half that

And all you got was 8 lousy chunks of aluminium?

Poly

Fuck man you got hosed!!!!

Fuck knows what grade they are! They have no crush tubes, and they have been hacksawed to fit. Could be fucken boat rollers for all we know.

Go knock on his door and ask for your money back mate. You paid 20x their worth, and ended up with anything BUT a body lift.

This is what happens when kids have money.
It's too late now

[royce]

Settle down you lot, how tall are the blocks? 1" fits on a vit with stock studs cause they are heaps long

you would probably fit longer on too if you removed some of the rubber mounts, but then it would reduce the lift size anyway

[Fatzook]

royce wrote:

Settle down you lot, how tall are the blocks? 1" fits on a vit with stock studs cause they are heaps long

you would probably fit longer on too if you removed some of the rubber mounts, but then it would reduce the lift size anyway

Doesn't matter though. No crush tubes makes poly illegal. He was given a massive Bumsteer on this one.

[swifty_ano]

Fatzook wrote:

royce wrote:

Settle down you lot, how tall are the blocks? 1" fits on a vit with stock studs cause they are heaps long

you would probably fit longer on too if you removed some of the rubber mounts, but then it would reduce the lift size anyway

Doesn't matter though. No crush tubes makes poly illegal. He was given a massive Bumsteer on this one.

It's all a learning curve to me..... Don't trust people haha this is a lesson to all tight ass apprentices...don't cheap out.
Hopefully I could get some money back on the blocks. Hopefully TSOR can keep a kit aside for me till I can afford it.
And help me fit it
I dont think i read In the links Royce anythint about crush tubes. Does it?

[OFFROAD_SOLUTIONS]

Look like yours might fit a hilux

[shep]

just slap it in as a 25mm body lift. i have a 25mm body lift on my sierra and run 33s.

[royce]

Fatzook wrote:

royce wrote:

Settle down you lot, how tall are the blocks? 1" fits on a vit with stock studs cause they are heaps long

you would probably fit longer on too if you removed some of the rubber mounts, but then it would reduce the lift size anyway

Doesn't matter though. No crush tubes makes poly illegal. He was given a massive Bumsteer on this one.

Now ive looked around at the 2 available bits of info from QLD DOT about this and I see nothing about crush tubes

Given its inspected once fitted how would the inspector know and how would you prove it?

whats a crush tube going to do? crush tube implies that material around it isnt able to support the weight and needs to be supported to stop it collapsing, so infact poly blocks are useless and the crush tube is doing all the work?

[Fatzook]

The crush tube is a safety net. Given that under the right conditions, poly COULD ( not WILL!! ) crack, the crush tube would be there to stop the body sinking.

If you do regular checks of your vehicle, you would spot this before it became a problem.

Personally, I wouldn't buy poly blocks without them.

As for the legal side of things, maybe Greg or Bruce could provide some info.

[bob9909]

Just finished installing my 2" body lift I got from just_cruizin the other day, the instructions were great! But didn't realize it had to be blue plated, I guess pretty much everything does though these days, will look into getting it done when I get my seats done as well (guess a roll bar as to be as well?). How much does it usually cost?

I ran into a few problems with the transfer case and gearbox not wanting to go into gear. Ended up replacing the gearbox mount as it was totally fucked, that fixed that, and had to cut a notch into the body to get it into low range. Really not too happy about that and I don't understand why some people don't have issues and others would.

The other big issue I had is that one of the body mount bolts snapped off when tightening, seriously I swear I didn't over tighten it! Was only about half tight and just went loose and came out..... still haven't figured out how to fix that yet, thinking I either need to weld a new thread to the body or get another female bolt with a longer thread as there is still a fair bit of the original left

Any advice would be great

[Taff]

Holy fuck QLD transport reducing regulations?

Is it the end of the world? Am i dreaming?

[royce]

Fatzook wrote:

The crush tube is a safety net. Given that under the right conditions, poly COULD ( not WILL!! ) crack, the crush tube would be there to stop the body sinking.

If you do regular checks of your vehicle, you would spot this before it became a problem.

Personally, I wouldn't buy poly blocks without them.

As for the legal side of things, maybe Greg or Bruce could provide some info.

We all know a sierra can run around sans a mount with no dramas, given the surface area of a cruch tube (what 1.5mm thick, 12mm dia) it would jsut punch through the floor in any circumstance that saw a block fail

[bagnkat]

I would have thought it's actually just a bushing to stop the hole through the poly flogging out from the bolt through the centre.

[Fatzook]

royce wrote:

Fatzook wrote:

The crush tube is a safety net. Given that under the right conditions, poly COULD ( not WILL!! ) crack, the crush tube would be there to stop the body sinking.

If you do regular checks of your vehicle, you would spot this before it became a problem.

Personally, I wouldn't buy poly blocks without them.

As for the legal side of things, maybe Greg or Bruce could provide some info.

We all know a sierra can run around sans a mount with no dramas, given the surface area of a cruch tube (what 1.5mm thick, 12mm dia) it would jsut punch through the floor in any circumstance that saw a block fail

I agree completely. And common sense tells me I am right too. But that doesn't mean the law agrees

I've only ever used/ sold alloy blocks, so I've never concerned myself with the ins and outs of poly.

I still remember Kymbo's boat roller body lift in Gumnut

[Bruce]

Fatzook wrote:

The crush tube is a safety net. Given that under the right conditions, poly COULD ( not WILL!! ) crack, the crush tube would be there to stop the body sinking.

If you do regular checks of your vehicle, you would spot this before it became a problem.

Personally, I wouldn't buy poly blocks without them.

As for the legal side of things, maybe Greg or Bruce could provide some info.

We have tested the material used in the blocks that I make for Just_Cruizin.
The size was 200mm x 200mm x25mm thick. It was put under a 200 ton press for 24 hours in Sydney. Other than deflection while under load it all worked. Once the pressure was taken off the poly went back to it's original shape.

We have sold the same material used in these blocks to cranes uses to use as their levels for their feet after there was a bad bad bad accident using another material.
Don't understimate poly people. JMO
I personally would not use Ally blocks not because I sell poly but for the reasons of electrolicious of Ally "V" steel. But that's just my option.

I aggree with Peter about, "If you do regular checks of your vehicle, you would spot ANYTHING before it became a problem."

[Rusho]

I don't want to start this discussion but I used ally on my BL and applied a very liberal coating of body deadner to either end. After 2 1/2 years I haven't noticed a darn thing wrong with them as far as electrolosis goes. It is a simple case of insulation to fix the problem.

JMO though. I am a coily drie after all

[Bruce]

Rusho wrote:

I don't want to start this discussion but I used ally on my BL and applied a very liberal coating of body deadner to either end. After 2 1/2 years I haven't noticed a darn thing wrong with them as far as electrolosis goes. It is a simple case of insulation to fix the problem.

JMO though. I am a coily drie after all

Not all do that Rusho All good mate