Wednesday, Apr 08, 2015 at 09:39
Hi Bruce, with 400-600kgs load in your tub, the ride would be a big improvements over standard, regarding 'tightening the bolts' at around a thousand kms (blacktop) I asked
John Molnar at Sax for the torque numbers for all the rear assembly and the Spring retaining nut on the struts and was told F^##*ng tight.
Neither of my torque wrenches have a setting for that, so I found out through Isuzu (eventually) the torques for factory
suspension hardware and went from there, I even went to the extreme of buying new genuine nuts and bolts that hold the two sections of the top wishbones together ( the four 12mm ones in each, could have been a bit meatier IMHO).
Over the time the Blog has been up I have had number of people contact me with their experiences with this product and have seen quite a few pictures of a variety of components failing, a couple of which were almost catastrophic.
The quality of steel used in
the springs and mounting hardware appears questionable from pictures/correspondence received from others, and close examination of my own snapped leaf ( see for yourself in the Blog picture ) it looks as though the spring shattered. The only explanation for the rear Shock absorbers is that they are simply not up to the job, completely unable to cope with the rear spring rebound, I put a link to Youtube in my Blog for undercar footage which pretty graphically demonstrates my point.
Hopefully your parts were made from better quality recycled steel from the factory in India, and give you all that you had asked for and more. Happy
trails. Kanga.
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