When I brought Dobbie (Green 1997 FZJ80 - see Dobbie) home, about a month or so ago, I had vague steering and a puddle under the left rear shock. I bought new shocks, installed them, and did a bunch of other work (including swapping springs left to right because they were installed wrong).
When I took it for a test drive, the steering was very vague. VERY vague. Recently someone asked me if I had a lift on it or not. I had not installed a lift kit, but I remembered capturing the spring codes when I was trying to address the lean (see Lean Much?).
It seems I am running OME 850 X in the front and OME 860 X in the back. I tried to look it up on the OME site, but could not find references. Where/how can I see what kind of lift (or not) that is? Also, since I put standard shocks in there, would that be why I am seeing strangeness? How about castor correction, etc etc etc?
I am in the process of changing brakes (the others were badly grooved) and will then check tie-rod ends and radius arm bushes (not sure how).
Help?
When I took it for a test drive, the steering was very vague. VERY vague. Recently someone asked me if I had a lift on it or not. I had not installed a lift kit, but I remembered capturing the spring codes when I was trying to address the lean (see Lean Much?).
It seems I am running OME 850 X in the front and OME 860 X in the back. I tried to look it up on the OME site, but could not find references. Where/how can I see what kind of lift (or not) that is? Also, since I put standard shocks in there, would that be why I am seeing strangeness? How about castor correction, etc etc etc?
I am in the process of changing brakes (the others were badly grooved) and will then check tie-rod ends and radius arm bushes (not sure how).
Help?