Frontera Body Lift Part 2 – Preparation

Seeing as my Frontera was 12 years old and had been subjected to lots of road salt I wanted to limit any potential problems with getting all the body mounting bolts and bumper bolts undone.  So several days before starting the lift I went round all of the bolts and gave the exposed threads a good wire brushing and soaked them with penetrating oil.  This was repeated daily and then on the last day I carefully removed the 6 rear bolts that go into captive nuts on the body, cleaned and greased them then refitted so come the day of the lift I was not gonna have any grief from rusty nuts!!

I also gave it the once over and checked that where the wiring loom, brake pipes, fuel lines and coolant pipes cross from the body to chassis there was enough slack to accomodate the lift.  So far so good, with minor tweaking of the various clips it looked like these would give me no problems.