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Ben_Sierra

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Joined: Wed Sep 30, 2009 11:30 pm Posts: 4472 Location: Perth
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 Posted: Fri Feb 26, 2010 5:53 pm |
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Here's the thing...
Why ask for people opinions if you don't want them?
The Commo/Hiace combo is a long proven way of doing it...
If you wanna go do things your own way then go do it, but don't come crying back when you spend $300 on shocks that give you fuck all flex...
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atari4x4

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Joined: Mon Dec 11, 2006 10:30 pm Posts: 34842 Location: East Radelayed
Vehicle: SV420+SV620 Vitara's
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BlueSuzy wrote: ioops.
I forgot it was lowercase. isorry
it's a lowercase "i" followed by a capital
iThink...
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shep
Joined: Thu Mar 29, 2007 11:30 pm Posts: 14498 Location: Here there everywhere
Vehicle: A manly awesome man jimny
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 Posted: Fri Feb 26, 2010 6:14 pm |
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even my shit box has commodore shocks on the front. none on the back but
as they fell off a while ago. 
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nissvit
Joined: Sun Apr 06, 2008 11:30 pm Posts: 184 Location: Brisbane
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 Posted: Fri Feb 26, 2010 10:12 pm |
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mrw82 wrote: yeah go the ironman kit. $1400 is a great price installed.
Mark may have had success with iron man stuff, but the rear leaves I had from them were too short so the shackles were always at the wrong angle.
looked like they had used standard length leaves, but had re-set them to get two inches lift so they ended up being too short to work properly... car rode like a brick..
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11_evl
Joined: Tue Apr 10, 2007 11:30 pm Posts: 846 Location: logan reserve, Brisb
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 Posted: Fri Feb 26, 2010 10:14 pm |
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how does the OME rears go all round. 2" lifted rears in the front and back??
BUZOOKA. another option if you want different length shock is to lift you upper shock mount by making a new x member
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MrRocky
Joined: Thu Dec 17, 2009 10:30 pm Posts: 4731 Location: perth
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 Posted: Fri Feb 26, 2010 10:19 pm |
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I cut 2 rear upper mounts off a scrap sierra and welded them on top of my crossmember so now the shocks are like this /\ I used rancho 9000 ajustables that measure just on 1m opened. Now i dont have to worry about running out of shock length ever again and i can change back to standard setup easy.
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BUZOOKA

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Joined: Sun Aug 30, 2009 11:30 pm Posts: 2659 Location: hobart tasmania
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 Posted: Fri Feb 26, 2010 11:26 pm |
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atari4x4 wrote: put the "E" rage away, there is no need to swear...
listen to the people that have expereince in sierra's, they've been there & done that.
comments withdrawn was a lil bit agro last night with other stuff and i just felt as if the commo hiace set up was being rammed and shoved down my neck thats all
wat i was asking tho is r there any other shocks taht r effective otehr than them
cheers luke
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Ben_Sierra

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Joined: Wed Sep 30, 2009 11:30 pm Posts: 4472 Location: Perth
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 Posted: Fri Feb 26, 2010 11:41 pm |
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Well, a mate of mine swears by his Rancho's.... not sure on the P/Ns but he has em for his 2" lifted Sierra, and they are what you might call the "Perfect Length" in that they provide maximum down travel and stop just short off bottoming out with the diff firmly rammed up into the stock bumpstops....
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BUZOOKA

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Joined: Sun Aug 30, 2009 11:30 pm Posts: 2659 Location: hobart tasmania
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 Posted: Fri Feb 26, 2010 11:57 pm |
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Ben_Sierra wrote: Well, a mate of mine swears by his Rancho's.... not sure on the P/Ns but he has em for his 2" lifted Sierra, and they are what you might call the "Perfect Length" in that they provide maximum down travel and stop just short off bottoming out with the diff firmly rammed up into the stock bumpstops....
dint supose u could see about getting the me a part number could u
cheers luke
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Ben_Sierra

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Joined: Wed Sep 30, 2009 11:30 pm Posts: 4472 Location: Perth
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 Posted: Sat Feb 27, 2010 12:12 am |
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Yeah I've been meaning to ask him myself... I'll see what I can do, might not be able to get hold of him straight away though...
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BUZOOKA

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Joined: Sun Aug 30, 2009 11:30 pm Posts: 2659 Location: hobart tasmania
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 Posted: Sat Feb 27, 2010 1:39 am |
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thats cool in no hurry for it as my licence comes first sierra on the road and then my p.s
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atari4x4

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Joined: Mon Dec 11, 2006 10:30 pm Posts: 34842 Location: East Radelayed
Vehicle: SV420+SV620 Vitara's
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BUZOOKA wrote: atari4x4 wrote: put the "E" rage away, there is no need to swear...
listen to the people that have expereince in sierra's, they've been there & done that. comments withdrawn was a lil bit agro last night with other stuff and i just felt as if the commo hiace set up was being rammed and shoved down my neck thats all wat i was asking tho is r there any other shocks taht r effective otehr than them cheers luke
so thats an iRetract?
i was just starting to read your posts again after you last effort & they had been good lately...
then you get all hoity toity & iRage me!
you ask for peoples iOpinions & that's what you'll get if you like it or not 
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BlueSuzy

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Joined: Sun May 04, 2008 11:30 pm Posts: 9716 Location: NSW
Vehicle: SJ51 LWB, SJ70 SWB
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 Posted: Sat Feb 27, 2010 5:57 am |
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iSuck at teh iStuff
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MrRocky
Joined: Thu Dec 17, 2009 10:30 pm Posts: 4731 Location: perth
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 Posted: Sat Feb 27, 2010 2:30 pm |
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be aware that with rancho's the little tabs on the rear diff for holding handbrake cable and brake lines always hit and dent the hell out of them unless you remove a couple of brackets and give em a whack with the hammer as they are heaps wider than standard shocks
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shep
Joined: Thu Mar 29, 2007 11:30 pm Posts: 14498 Location: Here there everywhere
Vehicle: A manly awesome man jimny
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 Posted: Sat Feb 27, 2010 2:33 pm |
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when i bought my lwb it had rancho 5000 shockies and i
wasn't very impressed with them.
also if you plan on running tyres bigger then standard without a bodylift
you will need to have extended bumpstops anyway  .
i would think that probably half of the lifted sierra's here would be similar to
ZF's article in the tech section. with good reason as well. and as a bonus you
will have suspension that actually works for less then the price of 4 shitty
rancho shocks.
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BUZOOKA

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Joined: Sun Aug 30, 2009 11:30 pm Posts: 2659 Location: hobart tasmania
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 Posted: Sat Feb 27, 2010 2:37 pm |
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yer shep i will be running a body lift aswll as spring
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shep
Joined: Thu Mar 29, 2007 11:30 pm Posts: 14498 Location: Here there everywhere
Vehicle: A manly awesome man jimny
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 Posted: Sat Feb 27, 2010 2:43 pm |
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BUZOOKA wrote: yer shep i will be running a body lift aswll as spring
and you will probably still need extended bumpstops. mine tries to tear out the headlight without bumpstop extensions.
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BUZOOKA

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Joined: Sun Aug 30, 2009 11:30 pm Posts: 2659 Location: hobart tasmania
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 Posted: Sat Feb 27, 2010 3:02 pm |
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shep wrote: BUZOOKA wrote: yer shep i will be running a body lift aswll as spring and you will probably still need extended bumpstops. mine tries to tear out the headlight without bumpstop extensions.
ook thanks for the heads up ill see wat happens when i do the lift
cheers
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