Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2007 8:23 am
How much rust is there? If it's been in salty, corrosive conditions you may have to replace the brake lines. If not, just replace parts as necessary.
Do you have some clunks in the suspension as an indicator it is worn? You could go as far as replacing all the bushings with neoprene, and a suspension kit as simple as new springs or as complicated as a complete trailing arm kit. I would proceed slowly and carefully, getting as much knowledge as you can along the way.
My suggestion... fix clunks first, for example on my wife's 88 Rangie there is a clunk in the rear, which has turned out to be the ball joint in the rear A-frame. No suspension kit, bushing kit or modification would fix this problem, so it's got to be fixed before I proceed to consider anything else.
There's also a rule of thumb on Rangie and Disco suspensions... 2" is easy, anything more starts affecting many different components such as drive shaft and castor angles and thus will cost much more. For up to 2" lift there are several simple ways to get what you want.
Dave
Do you have some clunks in the suspension as an indicator it is worn? You could go as far as replacing all the bushings with neoprene, and a suspension kit as simple as new springs or as complicated as a complete trailing arm kit. I would proceed slowly and carefully, getting as much knowledge as you can along the way.
My suggestion... fix clunks first, for example on my wife's 88 Rangie there is a clunk in the rear, which has turned out to be the ball joint in the rear A-frame. No suspension kit, bushing kit or modification would fix this problem, so it's got to be fixed before I proceed to consider anything else.
There's also a rule of thumb on Rangie and Disco suspensions... 2" is easy, anything more starts affecting many different components such as drive shaft and castor angles and thus will cost much more. For up to 2" lift there are several simple ways to get what you want.
Dave