My 2 cents worth. Ive got 31s with a 3" calmini kit suspension lift kit and a 2" body lift and i dont have any rubbing issues, except rubbing on one side on the chasis which i cant work out, but any way. The gearing i have found to be quite high, when out 4wding 1st in low range was good i...

Has any one out there had any experience in using steering dampers on their vitara/escudo ? There are the toughdog ones u can get from ausie for $200, are these any good ? Iv got the 3" calmini suspension in and 2" body lift and thought a steering damper might help the handeling a bit. Has...

What you do comes down to the condition of the hubs, if they are turning smoothly and no obvious problems then I would just fit them. If you want to service them before putting them on you can have a look at this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsBPl2cQlC4 For grease I would use a 'washout re...

Hey guys Just wondering if there is any tricks when changing over to manual hubs on my Suzuki escudo 89 from my auto ones. Iv managed to pick up some second hand manual hubs with the same spline count and was just wondering if u need to clean them out with something special ? or just some petrol and...

I think its time for the auto hubs to go, judging by the constant clicking while in 4wd. I was wanting to know if someone knows where the best place to get manual hubs from is and if they are hard to replace. Also i saw auto hubs for $60 on TM is it worth buying a few sets of these for the cost of m...

i have 205/75/15 Bridgestone AT on factory 15 inch rims only done 5000 km on them

Hey Linden, where did you get to with all this? yep i got it all certified by 4wd accessories while i was up in chch. Was a bit of a long winded process with a few cock ups on the way by my part. But we got there in the end and iv also got a 2 inch body lift in there which it needed. Probably shoul...

I know its a long shot but is that bar still available by any chance ?

still looking for a place to get the bar done, close to chch as tomsoffroad is a bit out of the way for me.

if anyone could help

cheers linden

tomsoffroad wrote:Ohh ohh thats me

No problems making a bar for your Zuk Linden

Great where abouts are u located in chch i could come out and meet some time to talk about some options.

cheers

nice looking work these bars, but are they in chch because their website says they are in the waikato and im keen to get a bar mad up for my truck in chch. If not does anyone know any other good places to get 1 made.

Hi there, does anyone know a good place to get a winch bar made up for my Suzuki escudo in christchurch or near by.

UP DATE ..... still slightly broken After a bad report from the mechanic, who doesnt really like things that are not standard, I'm left with still a few problems. . The camber being negative on both front wheels even with the installation of calmini camber bolts which had little/ no effect. . Unable...

Did u have any other issues with your kit? As I have done the same with my escudo and while i havent broken any diffs or cvs ( although they at on quite a steep angel even with the diff drop brackets) I have had trouble getting the camber correct ( too negative) even with the calmini camber bolts di...

Im going to get some 31s for my suzuki to go with the 3" calmini kit and was wondering what size rims are required for this. Calmini say a 15x7 inch rim with a backspacing of 2.5 to 3 inches. Iv heard some people say the 15x7 is too narrow is a 15x8 better ? And also how much off set is require...

Thanks for that mate, sound like a general consensus that calmini is crap in the front end (just a shit i had first hand experience) and iv heard that a lot about the front diff. Good idea to replace it with steel rather than the hassle of constantly breaking it.

Cheers

No i haven't certed it yet im leaving for europe soon for 3 months so will get everything fixed up and hook back into it then. The truck sort of took a back seat while planning the trip but ill focus more time on it when i get back. get all the niggly annoying things that are wrong with it fixed and...

Yea thanks ross. I will definitely be sending them back but no doubt will have to go through all the processes and the time and am at their mercy really, but i will see where i get and they bloody well better listen and not brush me off like they have done to the other countless emails and calls. Ov...

Yea im going to try contact calmini directly but the guy i was dealing with was absolutely useless at communicating and once id brought it he wanted nothing to do with me. Will try call directly and if im enough of a pain in the ass they should replace them. I knew i was running that risk importing ...

yea thanks for the advise guys. It was mainly the camber that was the problem as this cant be adjusted without the bolts. Must have just got a bad pair of struts, quiet unlucky though i guess.

I brought a calmini lift kit direct from america earlier this year and after taking it out for its first test run through coal pit, both the front struts had leaked out all thier oil and u could see the seals all perished and boken, basically it was undrivable and fucked. I had to put my original st...

Do u need certification for the 3" calmini suspension lift kit as i have heard different opinions. also is there anything that i have to do once i install it, i have heard about blowing CVs and diffs and having to lower the diff to cope with the extra lift. certs are quiet expencive so dont wan...

thanks chris i was thinking of doing the headers at a later date and as money allows. Is it better to priorities the headers first?

im looking at getting a 2 1/4 " exhaust system done to my zuki. getting it replaced from in front of the cat all the way through, with a performance muffler (don't have the technical description). i got quoted a relatively cheap price for him to bend it all up and fit it. Just wondering if ther...