AnswerID: 219344 Submitted: Friday, Feb 02, 2007 at 20:03
Member - Shane D (QLD)
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Hi Craig,
I have a 105 cruiser and I bought terrain taimer springs,shocks and steering dampner.
I'm told the springs are manufactured by kings,shocks are australian made by whoever makes the TJM xjs series shocks and i'm assuming same for the dampner.
I found the front's lifted about 50 -60 mm(I have a steel bbar) now that they have settled.When I first put them on(100 mm+) it was almost undrivable(castor)but the best suggestion given to me was to give it time to settle before spending money correcting it, so I disconneted sway bars and found tracks that had deep washouts so I could get the springs working.
I have now got a 10000lbs winch, soon to get second battery and the front now works good,terrian taimer only have 2 catogories of springs,comfort or heavy duty,If you got xtra's ,get H/D.
The back,
most of the time I have no weight in the back and I found the H/D too hard for some people's comfort when empty,when loaded I found them good, your chioce on which way to go,height is about 75-80 mm higher than standard.
It is a easy job to fit (I did mine in the driveway at home afterwork)and the total cost me $880 with the dampner.
Like I said when I first put them on it drove like a P O S and I rang around steering specialist and all they want too do was charge me between $300-$500 for the castor correction useing their castor correction kits
My advise is if you do the job(whoevers springs upto 50-60mm) let them settle (3000km) before you spent coin on castor,mine handles as good as it can with 235 mud
tyres,no evidence of abnormal wear(is early days)
Dunno how big rubber you are using but IMHO no need for a return-to-center or tie rod ends
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