Lux rears up front?

[imported_siringo]

Anyone swapped their stock hilux rear leaves up front ? I'm very seriously looking into it and just wondering if anyone had any advice/horror stories/experiences etc.

[imported_Taziiy]

Im not sure about using the standard shakles but yes its doable and havent herd any bad stories

[imported_siringo]

Huh huh, Done!

Finished it off this afternoon. It moves your front diff forward 1.5"'s. I gained an extra 1.5" in height and it put my steering out 180 degrees.

And what an improved ride!

But now I have a whole nother shopping list as bits and pieces no longer fit.

[imported_jugger]

siring o can u give me a run down on what u had to change or replace ? or was it a straight forward just bolt them in sort of deal.

[imported_siringo]

Yep I sure can. I took pics and all. Leave it with me and I'll try and do something through the week.

[imported_jugger]

thanks that would be tops.

[imported_siringo]

Sorry this has taken so long. I've been caught up with this and that. If you go here - http://www.my84lux.blogspot.com you'll find a wtite up I've done on this mod!

Beware- If you start this mod you may become addicted.

[imported_outbacklux]

hey mate thinking of this what did you do to the shackles as there are no pics on the link and what about the shocks did you make a new bracket or did the stretch over. also one more ive got a sagged 4" lift in the backof mine how huge will that get me up thanks

[imported_siringo]

For the front shackles I fabbed up some banana shackles out of 8-10 mm mild steel. For the rears I'm still running stock shackles, but will be replacing them with scissor shackles soon.

For the shocks I got some Ranchos. I also welded in some shock hoops. I wasn't too keen on the hoops after putting them in. They didn't give me enough travel room. I'm going to replace them with some adjustable front mounts I'll design some time soon.

My rears were just stock 1984 rears and I got that list. With sagged 4" lifted rearsyou should get heaps of height, however to get that height they often bend them so much which actually makes the springs shorter eye - eye. It's the length of travel, not so much the height I was after.

[imported_TOY80ST]

Hey Matt top notch write up and probably a great help to a few people.
Great Blogg as well mate.
Cheers Paul

[imported_siringo]

I thought I had a bit more info on the build. It's here ...

http://downunder4x4.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2608