sumoco Posted January 10, 2014 Share Posted January 10, 2014 so i have an 86 ea82 gl wagon that i want to lift about 2 or 3 inches (for now) because my buddy just gave me his old toyo alloy wheels and tires and i want to cram them under my 4x4.ANYWAY, how bad for my car is a hockey puck lift, i've heard that they fail if you don't do it carefully but i feel like that is the case with any lift.thanks for your time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monstaru Posted January 10, 2014 Share Posted January 10, 2014 Seriously? hAVE you read anything on here? 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uberoo Posted January 10, 2014 Share Posted January 10, 2014 To be fair brian if you search for hockey puck you come up with 23 threads,including this one.Not a one says what he is asking.TO the OP. You can lift via hockey puck,but why when you can make some blocks out of steel that have built in camber correction,with no correction you end up with alot of positive camber.Other than that the usual rules of suspension lifting these cars comes into play-more strain/wear and tear on the axles and balljoints,etc.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthCoast Posted January 10, 2014 Share Posted January 10, 2014 I keep my pucks in the freezer not under the car. They slide better on the ice that way. If you want a real lift that will take the abuse, use steel. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monstaru Posted January 11, 2014 Share Posted January 11, 2014 (edited) WHO SAID ANYTHING ABOUT BEING FAIR? hE PROBABLY DIDNA LOOK! Anyways. IIRC, a hockey puck lift can only be done with a separate spring and shock. UNLESS, one put the puck on top of the strut. If that would have happened WE would have heard about it. If it just means stacking them under the spring by the threes , then your are only gaining about 1 inch of lift anyway... He MAY not have even looked at his struts! cheers. or not.. Edited January 11, 2014 by monstaru 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marcusgl10z28 Posted January 11, 2014 Share Posted January 11, 2014 Sounds like more trouble to use pucks on a unibody car because of the struts. Or was its said that it wasn't used on the strut??? Just dosent fit together in my head amd its weak. I did this option to a nissan pickip and that worked out. But its a body on frame truck so it dosent affect suspension (longer steering) Id go wit camber correct strut tops at least and I'm still trying to work out the rear shocks being dropped in my head...... Sincerly Marcus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loyale 2.7 Turbo Posted January 11, 2014 Share Posted January 11, 2014 Please excuse this question, but seems like I'm lost in translation: What is a Hockey Puck lift? Kind Regards. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
86BRATMAN Posted January 11, 2014 Share Posted January 11, 2014 He's talking about literally putting hockey pucks in between the body and frame. Lots of truck guys do it for a cheap lift, but since our cars are a unibody there is absolutely nowhere for them to go. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uberoo Posted January 11, 2014 Share Posted January 11, 2014 They could go in the struts,but it is alot of work to take apart struts though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loyale 2.7 Turbo Posted January 11, 2014 Share Posted January 11, 2014 Thank you for the explanation, I did not knew about that. Seems to be a pretty bad idea for our Subies... Kind Regards. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
88Subi4x4 Posted January 16, 2014 Share Posted January 16, 2014 (edited) I keep my pucks in the freezer not under the car. They slide better on the ice that way. If you want a real lift that will take the abuse, use steel. Hockey puck lift...... Just get some steel...... Edited January 16, 2014 by 88Subi4x4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uberoo Posted January 16, 2014 Share Posted January 16, 2014 the funny thing is, to the rest of the offroad world making a lift out of steel is redneck or ghetto. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Presidente Posted January 16, 2014 Share Posted January 16, 2014 the funny thing is, to the rest of the offroad world making a lift out of steel is redneck or ghetto. What offroad world are you talking about?!? Its not in the world of offroad Subaru's, Jeep's, Toyota's, Suzuki's or custom Crawlers/Buggy's. The only world I can think of where using steel over a hockey puck would be considered redneck or ghetto, is hockey...please explain...Is this a new sport? Offroad Hockey?! OP: Just make or buy a 2" lift, there's a million threads about this. Josh 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vegablade Posted January 16, 2014 Share Posted January 16, 2014 I believe Uberoo means people who make spacer lifts instead of actually buying larger springs and equipment. They work fine for the street but for any real offroad you dont want to be using cheap spacer lifts when there are so many options for high quality spring/shock combos and leaf packs. Unfortunately for us, spacer lifts are our only option. In all honesty though with our weight and the wheeling we do, they are more then capable and I dont know of anyone in our group who has really had any issues with well built kits. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthCoast Posted January 16, 2014 Share Posted January 16, 2014 What?!... I didn't know you spoke tater. We need you to translate more often. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monstaru Posted January 17, 2014 Share Posted January 17, 2014 point is, No searchie!!!!!!! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uberoo Posted January 17, 2014 Share Posted January 17, 2014 What?!... I didn't know you spoke tater. We need you to translate more often. *points and grunts at various parts on a car* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sumoco Posted January 19, 2014 Author Share Posted January 19, 2014 (edited) Wait I think I need to reword my post couldn't I just use hockey pucks as the spacer? Wouldn't it be the same thing just with a softer material? I understand that I would have to cut the rubber to the correct shape and that I couldn't just cram a whole puck in there but wouldn't it be doing the job? And also I looked and searched for a long time and found one post that no one had replied to nada bunch of others that mentioned hockey puck lifts but nothing more than a couple words about it Edited January 19, 2014 by sumoco Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gloyale Posted January 19, 2014 Share Posted January 19, 2014 On a frame vehichle.....the body is just that.....a body.....a place for someone to sit. If it's loosey goosey on flexible mounts, fine.....in fact that's what you want since truck frames flex. With a Unibody.....the body is the frame. If you mount the suspension points with flexible material.....your suspension parts are wobblin' around and would probably just break the pucks eventually and make you wreck the car. Not to mention, Hockey pucks are too large to fit on the landings where some of the suspension to unibody mounts. Also, you'd need lots of very long metric bolts to thread though the puck into the unibody. Use blocks of steel. Bolt the top of the block to the unibody with the short factory bolts.....then you can bolt the suspension to the bottom of the blocks using short, standard hardware which is much cheaper. Or buy our kit.........HighGuysLifts.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
88Subi4x4 Posted February 1, 2014 Share Posted February 1, 2014 This is why we can't have nice things 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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