Tarantula 2inch lifting Shackles

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Tarantula 2inch lifting Shackles

Post by findonchris » Mon May 07, 2012 3:33 am

Just found these online has anyone heard of them or used them before? Or any horror stories? http://tarantula4x4.co.uk/index.php?mai ... ducts_id=2
Also was looking at these add a leafs
http://www.jimnybits.co.uk/shop/sj-/-sa ... d_359.html
Does anyone have any idea how much of a lift this would give me?
I was thinking of having the add a leafs on the front and shackles on the back as i have heard this is quite a popular set up.

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Re: Tarantula 2inch lifting Shackles

Post by Highlander » Mon May 07, 2012 9:43 am

I've been thinking about add a leaf too, says 70mm lift on the link
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Re: Tarantula 2inch lifting Shackles

Post by ROBBIE » Mon May 07, 2012 11:35 am

i got about 2inch lift from ad-a-leaf from http://www.llama4x4.com/page5.htm
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Re: Tarantula 2inch lifting Shackles

Post by Darrell » Mon May 07, 2012 12:45 pm

findonchris wrote:Just found these online has anyone heard of them or used them before? Or any horror stories? http://tarantula4x4.co.uk/index.php?mai ... ducts_id=2
Also was looking at these add a leafs
http://www.jimnybits.co.uk/shop/sj-/-sa ... d_359.html
Does anyone have any idea how much of a lift this would give me?
I was thinking of having the add a leafs on the front and shackles on the back as i have heard this is quite a popular set up.

Well the shackle advert reads that they are 2" longer which will mean a 1" lift. The add a leafs do the job of lifting but a lot of people don't like the suspension so stiff.
The general consensuses is
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People have all kinds of mixtures on them. Lift springs and longer shocks is considered the best way but not cheap. There's "for and against" for most methods.
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