Had a busy day yesterday....aim was to make those tyres fit and work.
So i fitted em first thing in the morning to gauge what sort of clearance issues I may end up with. First check was inner clearance to the UCA's....all good.
Drove out of the garage to gauge the stance with the 295's -
And thats where the hard work began.
Time to start clearancing!
I measured with tape the portion of the lower rear fender that will need to be chopped and marked it.
I then cut it off with a thin blade grinder. Turned the steering wheel to see how close the pinchweld will be, and realised quickly that that bugger will need to have the **** beat out of him too, as well as the bodymount.
I cut slices into the pinchweld and beat it back....sealed it with silicon and sprayed over it......bodymount had a wedge taken out, bashed back and welded up again and sprayed.
I wanted to keep the next up innner fender liner clip holes as I was planning on re-using the fender liner and making it work pinned further back.
I utlised a piece of the fender that I had just cut off and shortened it down and made a small bracket to help me hold the inner liner pinned back. I push the clip through the liner into the bracket and then drilled a hole through the fender and rear of bracket and pop riveted it back to hold the liner in place -
I have flares to go on so I wasnt overly concerned about the exposed pop rivet.
Time for a clearance check!
Clearance with tyres straight ahead -
Clearance on full lock - Im still contemplating on making some 10mm or so steering limiters in the near future. These hilux's have a lot of steering lock as it is.
Half steering lock from underneath -
Time to hit the back paddocks for a Flex Test!
I drove to my old testing spot and back up the hilux up a mound to put pressure on the opposing front end.
Yes, my boys wondering ****** are you doing?
In the rear end.....there was still 1.5" of uptravel until the bumpstop bottoms out. But the tyre was damn close to the front end of that rear finder...just missing those liner clips. If only I could space the rear diff back slightly. This "may" be an issue if a situation arises where I fully stuff that rear end hard offroad....will see. something to think about in the meantime.
On the front end, the suspension compressed hard and the Superbumps were doing their job -
Whilst the front end was stuffed, U slowly began turning the steering wheel to gauge potential clearance issues with the tyres against all the clearancing I've just completed.
The tyres "just" literally only "brushed" against the lower pinchweld with the outer edge of those lugz as you can see in pic below theres a 2 inch second below that rivet.....might give it a couple more taps with the hammer to be sure.
I am not overly concerned with this thou. Rarely will you be using full steering lock when the suspension is compressed whilst offroading. Its more a measure of a potential worse case scenario which everyone should ensure works before hitting the tracks anyway and going offroad.
On the way back, I did a speed check against the GPS on my phone, and at 100kph on the speedo the GPS said I was going 104/5 kph. Just shows how far out the speedo is with factory tyres on it.
Got back home and decided to hit the next part of my build.....fitting the body colour flares I bought.
Yes she needs a wash.
Photo's dont do it justice...she actually looks like a truck now and I love the stance she's got.
295's on these trucks are pretty big tyres and I wouldnt reccomend going bigger if you plan on making them work offroad.
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