I did this conversion recently and there's some things to beware.
One, if you buy from eBay sellers, Strutmasters will not talk to
you. They demand a direct invoice number on their tech support
line. The instructions that come from the eBay seller we bought
from, are a bad joke - wrong info, no pictures where it counts,
etc. Strutmasters asserted their instructions are much better,
but of course I don't get to see, to verify.
And it's not like these clowns didn't get paid - the springs have
Strutmasters' logo on them, the kit is the same one they sell
and evidently they're just bummed about distributors taking a
cut, and choose to take it out on the customer.
Two, the rear portion of the kit is just wrong. I had to go get
proper bolts to attach the "pucks" to the mounting plates, the
skinny bolts provided to mount the puck and plate would require
the puck to be skewed on the plate such that the spring could not
sit down flush between puck & keeper tangs. The upper mount
is kind of a joke, big (but not big enough) flat washers slopping
around in the cutout "V" with only clamping friction to keep them
there. The bit of hollow tube provided to locate the plate on the
control arm is a 3/4" ID (or so) held by a 5/16" bolt, muy sloppy.
I fixed this (somewhat) by stacking washers and nuts inside the
tubes.
Three, the rake is not pretty - about an inch low in the rear, and
that's unladen. I'm going to have to get some air shocks and
hopefully there are any, for this vehicle. That, or pull off the
fronts and cut half a coil.
I'd recommend another option for spring conversions if I knew of
one. Just because of the p!ss-poor attitude, if not the quality and
completeness issues.
One, if you buy from eBay sellers, Strutmasters will not talk to
you. They demand a direct invoice number on their tech support
line. The instructions that come from the eBay seller we bought
from, are a bad joke - wrong info, no pictures where it counts,
etc. Strutmasters asserted their instructions are much better,
but of course I don't get to see, to verify.
And it's not like these clowns didn't get paid - the springs have
Strutmasters' logo on them, the kit is the same one they sell
and evidently they're just bummed about distributors taking a
cut, and choose to take it out on the customer.
Two, the rear portion of the kit is just wrong. I had to go get
proper bolts to attach the "pucks" to the mounting plates, the
skinny bolts provided to mount the puck and plate would require
the puck to be skewed on the plate such that the spring could not
sit down flush between puck & keeper tangs. The upper mount
is kind of a joke, big (but not big enough) flat washers slopping
around in the cutout "V" with only clamping friction to keep them
there. The bit of hollow tube provided to locate the plate on the
control arm is a 3/4" ID (or so) held by a 5/16" bolt, muy sloppy.
I fixed this (somewhat) by stacking washers and nuts inside the
tubes.
Three, the rake is not pretty - about an inch low in the rear, and
that's unladen. I'm going to have to get some air shocks and
hopefully there are any, for this vehicle. That, or pull off the
fronts and cut half a coil.
I'd recommend another option for spring conversions if I knew of
one. Just because of the p!ss-poor attitude, if not the quality and
completeness issues.
