Hey I have seen afew images of some RRs that seem to have the rear diff 10-12" (maybe more) further back than the standard position. I figure the best place to get this advice is from you guys.

I figure that to do this you can use your original chassis link mounts, but you would have to extend the rear trailing arms and make up some new arms for the aframe (i think this is the easy part) aswell as an extended driveshaft.

The harder part and the Qs that are still unknown are the process of moving the mounts for the springs on the chassis.
The chassis curves down directly after the rear diff so bump stops will be alot closer together than usually and there fore may have to be shaved to allow some up travel.
Now also because the chassis curves down the original spring mount cant be fully welded as some sections have no chassis to contact with. What do people do to over come this?

And lastly the fuel tank ? its obviously in the way....... a custom jobby is gonne be lotsa $ and It cant be moved forward as the aframe and driveshafts are there..... What is the usual way of overcoming all this ?

The fuel tank can easily be raised into the rear storage area but I really want to keep as much room there as possible (hence why I am not looking into a bobtail conversion)

I wanna get as much feedback on the extending process as I wouldnt mind giving it a go sum day. And the input from you guys is sure to spark some great ideas.
If anyone knows of someone i can contact that has done this and may have pics etc it would also be much aprreciated.

Cheers
Anthony

I moved my back four inches. I did an o.k. job, but I would recommend exploring coilovers and going that route. Fuel cell will solve the fuel tank problem, however you will have to put it in the cab. Extending the center link in the rear is obviously easy and making longer trailing arms is simple as well. Tough part is the spring and shock mounts (hence the coilover suggestion).

Coil overs :confused: hmmm I never realy thought about that. I could even use them fox air shocks...
The main reason I would prefer the airshocks over the coilovers is that the air shock can be adjusted easily but wiht coil over i may have to go through afew springs type to get the right ride.

I am not looking to do this for shure but I am interested and if i do go ahead I wanna get started in about april of next year.

Search the airshock threads from the general section, the results don't seem to indicate that airshocks are great on heavy vehicles.

Tis

yeah i thought that also might be a prob...... :confused:
Another thing with coil overs is I would have to mount them close to vertical and this would mean they would have to protrude into the rear storage area.

Maybe moving the spring perches back is still the best way for me to go about it ? then mak my own custom shock mounts.

Coil over springs are cheap if you do a search. I have seen in ads on POR in the past that others have purchased springs and made mods and decided to change spring rates. Hence you can get uused springs fairly easily. Verticle is the way to go on the rear shocks. They wouldn't take much room out of the back, so have a boot where the shock enters the body and keep it simple. I think in the long run it would give you a lot of adjustability combined with the potential for a ton of travel. Run 17" coilovers to make some of us jealous.

Way,

I am in Australia.... make the cheap coilover idea harder, how about you find me some 17" coil overs and then I get em from you when i am ready :p

while your at it find me some 14" coilovers for the front :D