Ok, so lifted my 4runner up front with some adjustable King coilovers about a month ago. They were adjusted for about 1.5" of lift. Wanted about 2" total lift, so I cranked them up a bit with a spanner wrench that Darren over at Twizted Engineering in Broomfield made for me.
It was a BITCH! Jacked up at crossmember to relieve some load on the springs and cranked away. I have seen advice that said to use two cuttoff screwdrivers or rods to insert into the adjustment holes and twist with that, but it wouldn't budge. I got them to turn with the wrench, but with the 4runner upper mount in the way, it was not easy. Kinda mucked up the adjuster on the coilover.
Any advice for a better way? Obviously, could take them off to adjust, but off... adjust... on... check height.... off again... and repeat. Would suck. I would say that getting coilovers with the adjustment on the bottom would have been best. Or maybe drilling more adjustment holes into the adjuster... dam... maybe that would have been best. There are only three, so getting to the next one without interference after 1/3 turn, was tight. Had there been six... maybe easier. What do ya think?
Next up: I noticed the tires have started wearing unevenly; worn more on outside than inside (too much positive camber). So... being that tires are on their last leg and I'm too broke at the moment for new ones, I decided to try my hand at adjusting the alignment a bit and save money for a real alignment until I can afford new tires. All I did was move the cams on the bottom control arm out one notch each, thus moving the positive camber more towards the negative.
I had never done this before, so I don't know the relationship between one notch on the cam and how much lower control arm adjust. I figure unless I overshot the mark (0 degrees camber), it will be an improvement over my existing condition, and if I don't notice my tire wear evening out, I can go one more notch.
Any comments, advice, suggestions?
It was a BITCH! Jacked up at crossmember to relieve some load on the springs and cranked away. I have seen advice that said to use two cuttoff screwdrivers or rods to insert into the adjustment holes and twist with that, but it wouldn't budge. I got them to turn with the wrench, but with the 4runner upper mount in the way, it was not easy. Kinda mucked up the adjuster on the coilover.
Any advice for a better way? Obviously, could take them off to adjust, but off... adjust... on... check height.... off again... and repeat. Would suck. I would say that getting coilovers with the adjustment on the bottom would have been best. Or maybe drilling more adjustment holes into the adjuster... dam... maybe that would have been best. There are only three, so getting to the next one without interference after 1/3 turn, was tight. Had there been six... maybe easier. What do ya think?
Next up: I noticed the tires have started wearing unevenly; worn more on outside than inside (too much positive camber). So... being that tires are on their last leg and I'm too broke at the moment for new ones, I decided to try my hand at adjusting the alignment a bit and save money for a real alignment until I can afford new tires. All I did was move the cams on the bottom control arm out one notch each, thus moving the positive camber more towards the negative.
I had never done this before, so I don't know the relationship between one notch on the cam and how much lower control arm adjust. I figure unless I overshot the mark (0 degrees camber), it will be an improvement over my existing condition, and if I don't notice my tire wear evening out, I can go one more notch.
Any comments, advice, suggestions?
