Frontera Body Lift Part 5 – Rear Bumper

This didn’t happen, unfortunately I managed t reverse into a milestone at about 15mph which totalled the rear bumper so made a new one with some recovery points fitted instead

But a few peeps have asked how its done so will get some pictures taken and update this post

Frontera Body Lift Part 4 – Front Bumper

Now the fun begins, so far all of the work has been straight forward nut n bolt stuff and a no brainer, the front bumper needed reloacting and I had no info on where to go with this.  It actually turned out to be very easy.

Checkout the picture, yep I know its a bit rusty looking, making it look pretty is on the to do list 

Okay, put into words

1. On the front of the chassis, measure up 50mm from the original front captive nut for the bumper and drill a new hole.  Do this on both sides.
2. Bolt the bumper in place using this new hole making sure it lines up correctly with the body
3. Drill a new hole in the bumper iron so the original rear captive nut in the chassis can be reused

Easy 😉

How strong is this now, well recently found out as I got swiped by a LandRover Discovery on the front right hand corner, bit of damage to the bumper end cap, the Disco’s front wing, drivers door, rear door and rear wing ain’t looking too good but the bumper  on my Frontera didn’t move 🙂

Frontera Body Lift Part 3 – Fitting the Body Spacers

The day had come to actually do the lift, did the usual precaution of removing the battery (just in case) and then started on the lift.

Then in no particular order

1. Removed front bumper
2. Slackened hose clips on fuel tank filler and breather pipes
3. Removed door sill trims, front kick panels and seat belt anchors so the carpet could be pulled back to get to the body bolts
4. Removed the radiator fan shroud

Then it was time to start on the body mounting bolts.  Working on one side at a time, all 6 mounting bolts were removed.  A piece of timber (4″ x 2″)  was placed along the underneath of the sill so that the body could be jacked up without any damage

The body was lifted just enough so the rubber mounting bushes could be removed.  These were then checked over to make sure they were servicable and given a quick wash to clean off all the mud and other crud picked up over the years.  Also cleaned up the spacer tubes ready for refitting.

All of the body mounts were reused and then the spacer block placed on top of the rubber mounts and the new longer bolts fitted, body was lowered and then did a quick check to make sure that all of the spacers and mounts were sitting properly and the body mounting bolts tightened up.  Once the first side was completed, the other side was tackled.

After all the spacers were fitted and bolted up tight, carpets, seat belt mounts, kick panels and sill trims were replaced.

Next up was to check all the fuel lines, brake pipes, radiator hoses, intercooler pipes, PAS pipes etc to make sure nothing was stretched.  Apart from loosening a few hose clips and realinging the pipes for the radiator, fuel tank and intercooler everything fitted, nothing needed extending or modifying.

The cooling fan shroud however did.  As the radiator is mounted on the body, lifting the body also lifts the radiator which meant the fan shroud was now too close to the fan and fouled.  Quite an easy fix, trimmed back the lower edge of the shroud so it cleared and then refitted it