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i have rather locked rear end....

I should say if I stand on the brakes it put enough resistance on the diff to get it to move.

Id say its suspension tho... if the wheel is off the ground, the suspension doesnt have the travel.

its going to become handy if i wanna change the oil i guess haha..

but i dont think its the suspension the main cause.

i have cage, body's been re-enforced with many more welds, one of them do-luck bars,

its like a sea saw when you park it in the right spot..

i have full race roll cage in mine (no rear seats, sun visors etc etc). Chassis don't flex that much. (well not on our cars anyway!)

I know what Daveo is talking about my ceffie gets beached, JIC suspension and a 2way, I jack the car up from behind the front wheel and 3 wheels come off the ground!

I love my suspension on smooth roads but... our roads generally suck so its annoying at times!

It's actually a case of your chassis being VERY stiff and NOT deflecting. This is a *good* thing (I'll get back to this later).

The fact that your chassis is welded and has a bolt in roll cage means that the torsional rigidity of your car is significantly improved. Thus, it takes much more twisting motion to flex the body. An illustration of this is, when you jack a car up at one corner, the windows and doors tend not to fit quite right. However, when, if you've got your car jacked up at one corner, the doors *may* open and close properly. ie. stiff chassis = good for maintaining suspension geometry and thus handling.

The *good* thing that the wheel is in the air now... It is good because it illustrates that your chassis has been reinforced well. However, it also illustrates that your shockers, at full extension, are significantly shorter than the factory stuff (same as my car). What this means is that, the shock length is shorter and thus the 'droop' that the wheel had drop to is shorter than the original factory suspension. An example of this is when you see a 4WD with very long travel shocks / springs climbing rocks that can articulate the left front wheel entirely within a guard and the right rear wheel at full extension that leaves a wheel to guard clearance of 50-100cms (see below pic)

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So all it means is that you'll lift wheels when getting into / out of driveways etc, you'll notice that Porsche GT3 RS's do it too...

So, if you've bothered to read this far, this is a good thing.

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