Dodgey handling after 3" lift

Can anyone offer me advice? After lifting the Jimny 3", adjustable pan hard rods, castor correction bushes and extended brake lines all had gone quite well, until i took in for a blast! It feels like a brick on top of a blamange at the moment, i have put some of this down to 'settlement period'. The steering is a bit over sensitive and twitchy, tends to pull you into corners a bit. Do you think the pan hards may need adjusting, or would adding a damper to assist with the twitchy bump steer help? Thanks.

sounds about right, lol.

mines terrible going round sharp courners, and I definatley need a steering stabiliser. in fact thats the next thing i am fitting and then wheel spacers after that.

it will take you a while to get used to the new 'handling', but once you do you will be more confident with the brick-on-blamange.

EDIT: There is also the possibility that there is something wrong with mine too

mine used to handle (very) terrible massive body roll with the cage etc, but after i fitted polybushes the handling improved greatly, but still has body roll, i didnt think the bushes would make a great difference but it did

but yes your view sounds right, have you took the ARB off?

Phillingham wrote: The steering is a bit over sensitive and twitchy, tends to pull you into corners a bit.

Not enough castor angle. Moving the swivel axis back at the top to increase castor angle will increase the self centring action.

Think it must just be the lift... mines quite soft and rolls around a bit. But then i havent driven a standard one to compare.

facade wrote:

Phillingham wrote: The steering is a bit over sensitive and twitchy, tends to pull you into corners a bit.

Not enough castor angle. Moving the swivel axis back at the top to increase castor angle will increase the self centring action.

Yep spot on. The only way you will be able to make it "fell right" is to change the front radius arms to suit the 3" lift and yes a damper will help big time.

Can you let me know how you get on with the damper? Jimny bits have a rough country one for about £68

Hi, i have just fitted super pro castor correction bushes, but still have the ARB on, the drop link angle gives the impression it's not doing much. Do you recommend removing ARB? Will it still pass MOT without it?

I removed my one as it will give you more flex wile off roading, on the road will make it worse (At leas mine got worse) but a lot better in the wild

A steering dumper will make it fill a lot better ......

My one pass MOT without the ARB, guess I was lucky as he licked the Jimny

My Jimny with a 4.5" spring fift and a 2 " body lift is not that bad realy
but i fitted a ORA stablizer kit and it made the steering heavy and
realy drove like a dog so i pulled it of ( after 30 miles ) much happer
now .
So if any body wants it £££ PM me

D&G Arms is the way forward ...