Lifting The front of an 89 L series

Booie · Post by **Booie** » Thu May 23, 2013 5:03 pm

My recently acquired L Series 4wd touring wagon looks a little like a mobile door stop and given the state of the roads in my neck of the woods I decided to wind the front up a little. Grabbed the manual read the appropriate section and slid underneath to start winding. Guess what No Adjustment Bolts!! According to the book all 4wd L Series should have them. Were they deleted? or is something else going on
Cheers:p

YouTube · Post by **El_Freddo** » Thu May 23, 2013 9:10 pm

These adjustment bolts only came out on the early L series - probably up to mid '87. I guess they were deemed unnecessary.

Being an '89 I doubt they were ever there, but with that said, if it was an earlier model the front struts may have been changed to a non adjustable strut.

Time for some lift kit action

Cheers

Bennie

Booie · Post by **Booie** » Thu May 23, 2013 9:27 pm

Thanks Bennie Mine is a late 89 L Series. Definetly time to look at a lift kit. We are only 200Km from Brisbane but the roads have never recovered from the floods and as the locals say 4wd's around here aren't a fashion accessory.
Cheers Darryl

YouTube · Post by **El_Freddo** » Sat May 25, 2013 10:38 am

After the lift look into an EJ conversion to help turn those larger tyres - or go another way by building an EJ AWD gearbox with 4.11:1 diff ratio into an L series casing to bring the gearing back near stock.

Depends on what's easier for you. Or just stick with the ea82 like some people do...

Cheers

Bennie

pzs · Post by **pzs** » Thu Jul 25, 2013 8:56 pm

is doing the g/box with the 4.11 ratio trick as easy as it sounds?

tambox · Post by **tambox** » Thu Jul 25, 2013 8:57 pm

no, not easy, if you do not know about gearboxes.
But its not hard to do.

pzs · Post by **pzs** » Thu Jul 25, 2013 9:05 pm

I got some knowledge....and knowledgable mates, I migt give that on some thought, anymore info would be good. thanks

YouTube · Post by **El_Freddo** » Tue Jul 30, 2013 7:51 pm

By far the easiest way to do it is drop the Ej20 foz box straight in. If you've got the EA82 still, you can split an EA82 5 speed box and fit the EJ AWD box in it so you can bolt straight up to the EA82, but you will need custom tail shaft, gear linkages and gearbox crossmember.

Speedo could be out, I'm not sure about that though with 27 inch tyres.

The bonus of this is that you'll get AWD and you can swap the diff output stubs to the 23 spline units while you've got the boxes apart so you keep your stock front drive shafts

Cheers

Bennie