It's interesting that this is the last item to survive of the 80 lift kit I designed and built for Man-a-Fre. The original "kit" had front and rear panhard drops, the "FRAB" (front radius arm bracket ), rear lower drop bracket, and the brackets to drop sway bar links. Our original agreement was I built these parts, they had to bolt on to existing holes so Aussies could buy( drilling holes in frames in Australia voids your insurance ), and were to hold all stock geometries at 4" lift. This would theoretically allow using only caster correction bushings at 6" lift. Man-a-Fre's part was to secure the manufacture of a drop pitman arm. A foundry in Australia was capable. Without the drop pitman the drop panhard was not effective. They dropped the ball on that. That and the fact in 1994 , 80 owners didn't seem ready to spend money messing up their relatively new expensive trucks. More parts were selling to Europe than the US. After a couple years I told Man-a-fre I wouldn't build them anymore so he sent the FRABs to couple places for quotes and found a small shop there that would build them. They were the simplest part of the kit so the investment wasn't too prohibitive.
The Aussie thing was critical because what people don't know is Man-a-fre had a business partner in Australia that had started working on a project to open a Man-a-Fre in Australia. Talks started in '04. the building was found and financing secured in '06. I was readying 4 pallets of parts for the opening late '07. ..
We all know what happened late '07
The Aussie thing was critical because what people don't know is Man-a-fre had a business partner in Australia that had started working on a project to open a Man-a-Fre in Australia. Talks started in '04. the building was found and financing secured in '06. I was readying 4 pallets of parts for the opening late '07. ..
We all know what happened late '07
