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I was planing on building the portal hubs that I was going to use. It is a simple gear box and I have the machines to cut the plates for the case and do the necessary machining for the bearing races and I was going to purchase the gears. Then disassembled a few hub bearings for the spindles and drive to mount the gears to. Because the prices I found on them was 10 to 14 thousand dollars each. When they should be 4500 to 6000 a set. Because 2500 was a rough estimate of what it would cost me to build all 4 of my own. It is basically a hobby of mine. That and I enjoy the challenges of the project.
Which it would get me 6 inch more ground clearance and put me at 18 in total lift with 37 inches center hub to bottom of the fender.
I have to agree that was where my draw back from the idea fell. And if I was going to that great of a distance. I figure might as well. Start with a dana 44 high pinion. Then go to the portal hub because the extra 4 inches of leverage isn't going to agree with the springs either. And creating a whole new issue that is difficult to address.
I would rather build a tube framed rockcrawlin swamp buggie. Than purchase a Mercede. But That's me
Dang that's an aggressive setup. Do you have a front solid axle swap to get that big of a lift?
Right now I'm running the factory IFS with 31 inches center hub to bottom of the fender. I drop the upper control arm down 8¾ lowered the subframe 5" and dropped the lca 3¾ inches to achieve the factory geometry of the control arms then I fabricated a adjustable lower
that's impressive
Thank you it was and has been an interesting build. I was trying to get multiple pictures to post but either my phone doesn't want to cooperate or I'm lacking the knowledge to get it done not sure which
Yeah but aren't we all driving around in Mercedes vehicles?
