ID a lift kit for MY

pedroj · Post by **pedroj** » Wed Sep 02, 2015 10:11 pm

Hello,
I bought a 91 brumby back in July, it had a very new lift kit in it but so far have not been able to ID where it was bought from or indeed who made it. Al the components have a gold anodised finish, including the strut tower spacers.

The brumby has a quite marked positive camber but the tower spacer appear to be in the right way around (they have arrows scratched into their tops) that both point towards the engine.

I will try and post some pic's of the kit parts and maybe some one can help me ID it. My worry is the now marked positive camber and doing research on here point to me needing to do a heap more work to get rid of the camber which is maybe beyond my skills. Oh the struts and springs are after market KYB units so maybe they are part of the equation.

Will get photos when it warms up on the weekend.

Peter in Tanunda S.A

henpecked · Post by **henpecked** » Thu Sep 03, 2015 12:56 pm

certainly this bloke as he posted here re a different product that he no longer makes, use his link to go to his site where these lift kits are still for sale ( I think).

http://www.ultimatesubaru.org/forum/top ... rformance/

struts and springs would not change camber.

post up a photo of the car from straight ahead, that will let other more experienced members let you know if the angle appearance is "normal" given the 2" lift and the taller tyres 205/75/14s that you have on it.

photos of my sample of the kit.

installation instructions

pedroj · Post by **pedroj** » Thu Sep 03, 2015 8:59 pm

Well Henpecked,
you nailed that one, even the strut spacer has the same not quite finished arrow in the top. Looks like it was done with a grinder before the coating was applied. So my kit is from QLD, that's handy to know. No front on photo on the camera, too busy taking other shots, will post one soon and see what the opinions are.

Thanks,
Peter.

Proton mouse · Post by **Proton mouse** » Fri Sep 04, 2015 1:09 am

My old '84 wagon had standard struts, but slightly longer King springs fitted at one point, which gave it a horrible positive camber. Fitted standard height springs back, which gave it back its not as bad factory positive camber.
Unfortunately there isn't an adjustable eccentric bolt at bottom of strut, like on later models, to adjust camber angle, so I would be trying to source standard length springs again.

JP147 · Post by **JP147** » Fri Sep 04, 2015 9:12 am

According to the manual, up to 3 degrees and 30 minutes of positive camber is normal for 4WD MYs.

If it is more than that, and the strut tops are correct, I would guess it could be the front subframe spacers (not installed, or smaller than the strut spacers), or the front springs being taller than factory.

pedroj · Post by **pedroj** » Thu Sep 17, 2015 9:30 pm

Well its been a while since I last looked at the camber but today decided to make a measurement seeing the brumby was sitting on a concrete floor for once. Out with the builders square (600 x 300mm) and sat it next to the front left tyre.

At 600mm to the top of the tyre, the edge sitting against the bulge in the sidewall I have a 10mm gap at the bottom to the same spot.
Now allowing for some tyre bulge it would seem I have a bit under 2deg of positive camber.

It is odd as looking at it from the front it seems to be more accentuated that that but I guess the optical illusion is not helped by those bloody big tyres.

I will have to live with it as extending the lower control arm is about the only choice I would have to get anywhere like a negative camber for better handling (in my opinion anyway)

Peter.

YouTube · Post by **El_Freddo** » Sun Sep 27, 2015 12:08 am

Do the above again but measure from the edge of your rim - then work out the triangulation from there for a more accurate reading.

Also make sure the strut top is in the correct alignment for 4wd. From memory on the MYs it sits one way for 2wd and the other way for 4wd. This will require removing of the strut and lift block.

Not hard to do, just painful.

The other issue could be that your strut tops are not build with the camber adjustment correction. Many L series lift kits are built with this correction, including mine - gives the vehicle a mean stance too! I would have thought they built these with the correction.

If push comes to shove you can get a mob to build new strut tops with the correction in it. Details of offset here

Took some time to track that one down :/

Cheers

Bennie

JP147 · Post by **JP147** » Sun Sep 27, 2015 7:17 pm

Minimum specified camber for a Brumby is +1 '45 degrees and maximum is +3 '30 so 2 degrees is towards the lower end, which is what you would expect with a lift kit.
My 2" lift reduced the camber a lot, but it is still slightly positive.