Pajero Suspension + Lift kit + Wheel spacers advice

[MuddassirT]

On 9/30/2022 at 12:06 AM, GauravSoni said:

Hey @Mehmet Volga… after riding the dunes for about 100+ drives, I went for Dobinsons MRA suspensions with 30 mm spacers to avoid hitting the reservoir installed in the wheel arch…

the car now sits at 2 inch lift with the heavy springs which kinda gives a good look overall.. 

The MRA’s is what Dobinson a refer as stage 4, with knobs provided to adjust the settings to make it hard/ soft. I personally have found a sweet spot setting for on and off road. 

Riding the ridges is more comfortable with good clearance and it can take those steep small steps we end up finding while leading.. one major change I felt is the reduced dashboard rattle  on speeds >60 on the serrated sabka tracks😂..

i did crack one of my suspension bush which was replaced by the shop. 

These will get your pockets lighter by almost 8.5k along with spacers (H&R).

One another note , There is a slight vibration that I get when driving on road at 90-110 which my mechanic says is due to change in transmission shaft angle cos of the lift. M not sure if @Alexanderrr @Simon Dawood @Mus_hus78 have experienced it yet.

overall I am happy with the experience so far! 

 

 

On 11/19/2024 at 12:10 PM, GauravSoni said:

Hi @Denny I welcome to the club.. pajero are inherently noisy boys!! Softer settings on roads with hardest setting on the dunes is my preferred way.. however you will have to find the sweet spot for your ride as mine is a LWB.. 6 high speed and 14 low speed is my stock config that worked for me.. 

check with  Dobinson for the best setting for SWB… 

Hi @GauravSoni, First of all thanks for your posts that helped me. I did the same upgrade as you had mentioned and felt the same feedback.

But I'm still struggling to get the sweet spot on road. Is the 6/14 u had mentioned in recent post for on road? and for all tires front and back the same?

Would like to know the sweet spot points for both on road and offroad thanks. Mine is a LWB as well.

[Emanuel]

Hi everyone and HNY!

Related questions regarding Pajero lift kits. The White Rhino has a Dobinsons MRR suspension system with about a 2 inch lift and running with zero offset rims. 

There are still stock sway bar links and upper arm ball joints installed on the WR. I’m wondering if I should consider longer and or stronger sway bar links and/or extended upper ball joints as part of this upgrade. Note: one of my sway bar links snapped last weekend, which was a first for me even with my first Pajero and desert driving for 4 years.

Has anyone here done a similar lift on their Pajero? What has been your experience with sway bar link and ball joint upgrades? Did you notice any significant improvements in handling or ride quality after making these changes?

Any advice or insights would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks in advance!

[Marek]

may be radical, but have you tried driving without the front sway bar altogether instead?

If you don't race in corners and considering you have the stock OE in the rear, you are actually gaining a lot of articulation in the front at little to no downside (again: unless you often consider taking a high-speed ramp off 311 going 130km/h there).

With 2.5" lift, swaybar needs to go little to the front and down on my Toyota (solved by spacers), and even with that it works in awkward way if you want to use that extra travel from your longer shocks, so it does not really help much when in the sand.

[Andrew John Melvill]

9 hours ago, Emanuel said:

Hi everyone and HNY!

Related questions regarding Pajero lift kits. The White Rhino has a Dobinsons MRR suspension system with about a 2 inch lift and running with zero offset rims. 

There are still stock sway bar links and upper arm ball joints installed on the WR. I’m wondering if I should consider longer and or stronger sway bar links and/or extended upper ball joints as part of this upgrade. Note: one of my sway bar links snapped last weekend, which was a first for me even with my first Pajero and desert driving for 4 years.

Has anyone here done a similar lift on their Pajero? What has been your experience with sway bar link and ball joint upgrades? Did you notice any significant improvements in handling or ride quality after making these changes?

Any advice or insights would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks in advance!

Hi there are a number of Australian pajero sites that sell adjustable sway bar links and upper control arms. Search of a site with Budget and 4x4 and life in the title. They also have a number of you tube videos on the suspension options they stock. Run by a south african guy. 

[Alexanderrr]

I had mrr suspension for almost a year , after installing I had a sway bar squeak  from bushes, replaced and  no issues at all, 80 % comes from how the lift was installed

I had axle click sound and apparantly the rear springs were defective (extra lift)

Take measurement and see if even

[Jose Luis Campos]

Hi @Emanuel! Did you change your sway bar links for other than the OE link?

[Emanuel]

@Jose Luis Campos I think the garage put in non-OEM links and that is why each broke on subsequent drives. They now only quote me OEM parts.

No issues now since both have been replaced again.

 

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